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AARON BELZ |
galactic orbiting robot force
Just give
us your name
your age and something
really funny about you
My name is Irving Berlin
I'm 118 years young
and I'm part Arabian
racing horse and I like
Count Chocula and I'm
angry about the way politics
grinds its utter Wendy
right into dead stars
as though no one cared
about anything other than
their next nonsequential
narrative compromise
Hi my name is Caine
Mutiny
and I'm not an age
but my funny thing is
that no one can find me
inside my own certificate
also I like tricking
mules into boring holes
in miniature walls
with microscopic drills
cheeseburger
I googled the word google and my computer began to smoke.
I googled the phrase
"google the word google"
in quotes,
and I died, and when I died
there was
no email, no MP3s, no
website, well
there was one website, it was
called heaven, it
had no pop ups or even
banner ads.
ben
It must have said on a large sign,
"home of the
automatic girlfriend"--
and that's how we got
through customs.
I had grown to hate my own mind,
which is why we left. If you
can
imagine booze, stilts, one of
those polka
dotted pantsuits; this is what
it had come down to, and
for what?
Gaius had rebuked me sternly,
then
rebiked the trail we had just
come down
as if to illustrate what
had become
of what, and when.
And that's when I fell in with Ben.
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