Maurice Burford

1.

being compelled to use time as contemporary and growing

the owners of capital         stretch a lake        across our laps

to penetrate and

why work          nature and ghosts are super rhetoric


we yoke along the pairings of single terms

work/desire        health/bracketing
Darth/Vader       far from/losing it


can't get through most days without the strenuous choke

of a house projecting garbage         and piss-soaked stairs

used to make him smart         or change the ribbing pattern

dead things kept eating at         his stone toes



2.

in purgatory

people

catch

thoughts

with their

toes



3.

occupation: very white

experience: kid who threw down crayons [used to be a banker]

toes: flies big game across the STATE

bear now: ghosts of girlfriends past that are charming and appealing

Posted 05/09/09