Apartment Poetry Quarterly

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21E THOM EICHELBERGER-YOUNG

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1 DAY (4 CHAPLIN CIRCLE)
for Joe Hall

Plastic shadows give no privacy Fence governed fever Overturned “breath gradient” Some people cried Labor: when I was a child, deep beats throbbed my ears at nighttime, lying in bed—I thought they were footsteps on the stairs The men can come take me Firefighters filmed a training video in my house Robberies occur between X and X hour de-escalating anxiety in homeowners during Y hours Seventeen sheep catapult On the other side of the wall is the hall to the attic Demosthenes fragment [insert here?] We will always build the house The lamp is backwards Geometry of love, its architectural temporality Cody sits under the porch and talks about a theorem of stupidity In the car after, the poet describes their project to their driver, another poet (but trash in the front seat leaves it a movie scenario) Thrice the same week seeing written mentions that almost all the copies are gone Seventy years apart This file contains 200 pages of email correspondence from [REDACTED] Salvation of word searchability I had a dot matrix printer at seven and enjoyed tearing perforations If only twenty people agree to buy the book, Bill will reprint it Yellow and blue mouse some may think is a rat Rollerball Ur-personal mutant narrative Our body is out-of-time Do not say Monster but Creature when discussing the sacred book I withhold the name for privacy reasons

 

 

 

 

1 DAY

Bells overlay Rising prices Inevitable modifier
Could do to find out:
Green house conduit:
Watchers’ van for days:
In the end, I did write much of it for you When you texted me, I thought you meant they were cutting off the tops of trees again We just watched a car run a stop sign If he were to create a diagram this time, it would involve meteors and craters as a means to demonstrate event and appropriative impact The past days found two bodies enter the circuit Intense efforts to platform This is not what I meant when I said anti-globalism Dear Alex, please consider— &also: “she” was not right about everything (latent redaction motif) We should fly the kite again I want to revisit that character But, never read the manuscript So then he calls me Guess three words don’t really mean The changing situation (daily, rapidly) brings us closer to public transportation Unstable modifier That’s as less static to the feeds Enervating sign reading At the heart of it, a catholic system

 

 

 

 

1 DAY (WITH MISSED CONNECTION)

Permeated through glass near the school Alien sense of closure Underground atomic chamber Holiday—grief resuscitation I have to conclude early in order to [labor] Erase that from the stone and reprogram it Transition Pleasure like this Intended shibboleth If you follow me closely, calling it ‘Alexandrine’ would suggest a name and not a form Appetite Whetstone Alarum Zed Propaganda Malteser Story but as psychogeography He who [                ] enjoys the flowers There where they carved away room to make the picture Hard face hides eyes Tape turn Cut in the window the window away from you—all cellular in formation So which and all happens as to be It makes a box Justified prisms Slow crawl of traffic as mundane component to diversity of tactics Here it comes Strandeds’ oasis Comment about homophonic transliteration—After “22T” my translation may read “oh piss is too bad” I’m actually curious Then we discuss the letters and notebooks An emotional affair and rejection of predominant ideology