My mother warns me / that Grandmother has awakened / from death, / taken a shower / and put on a dress / over her naked body
But dying is a specific outcome of the world’s game. / I ask the AI what a Black solution would be. // “One that does not kill the player.”
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The boutique owner / pulled from racks / variations on the same / pricey and shapeless dress / and as I tried them on / she whispered into the fitting room, / “I wanted to burn everything I wore / …
driving / through Tor / nillo & / I feel / all the / children / we can’t / see / in / his / America. He / is the pro / noun / of the govt / stand in / for hu / man u / have that / a lot // line / …
he shows me the difference between years / and ears in vain I say that we have two / words for it in my language (mine and his / too I correct myself ): this one word for / the outside bare skinned …
“she broke down and let me in” / playing at the café in Venice // at my computer i squint / my coffee is cold and a hooded dude / beside me looking also at my screen / “if you’re going to …
You would think someone were, somewhere, burning— / trying to burn— / what could have otherwise been called a rainbow. // And why should feathers make plain with color / their tiny, interior …
The arcade I lived in was the cryptograph, more or less. / The dog named Mila demanded evidence of the crowd. / You rented a room in the hotel by the sea.