Facebook – 9/4/17
peel back the “like” emoji
glam aluminum fingers
*glove of skin dropping to the floor*
wires turning Saturn around the wrist
red wires yellow wires green wires
i wonder which carry flirt likes and which jealous likes
wonder if Republican likes are the red wires and Democratic are the blue
wonder if they’re allowed to touch
Andy says Pop means we get to like things
FB says Like whatever
is how we become God=============
$likes collecting in cartoon stomach
$$likes smoking cigarettes
$$$likes bouncing on diamonds, on stars
*tfw you feel nothing at all*
likes tickle glitter at the back of the throat
sparkle tonsil
/FB “like” emoji invented 2,000 years ago by the Romans
sometimes i look for it in my poop even if i don’t see it i know it’s there
nobody just turns back into raindrops first they must be counted
**
Facebook – 9/8/17
like Amazon, i’m opening a second headquarters
————————>>five inches to the right of a cushion
i’ve named Diogenes
my safe place is a struck blade that forks me at the center
sometimes i order products dropped in a spare bedroom behind my eyes
place is not a place @place is where brand
confirms its ubiquity
someone asks how the blue expanse of these keys has turned me
i tell them they are talking to a fiction
to know me is to friend my simulation
why else do we come here except to grow new selves to carry back to the world
/infant ontology
/on-demand, quantified biology
^^^^Wal-Mart, aisle 36B oblation: at 2 a.m., tag photo of the ground that ripples
around you mark yourself “safe” in the slow disaster that is breath
body is place w/CONDEMNED sign hung across its door
life is knowing when the cloud is parked at your window life is you walk out
footfall to sky
**
Facebook – 9/28/17
are you still
at war
if he’s not
into you
that way$$$
>>Kleenex Extra-Soft Tissue with Lotion, 4 Cube Boxes (75 tissues per box)
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zombies aren’t living
their best life
>>Home Improvement: The 20th Anniversary Complete Collection – 28-DVD set
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tonight i unscrew my head to release a hatching bird
>>Orange Circle Studio Do-It- All Planner, Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2018, Secret Garden
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modern grounds for witch-burning: a woman with more vibrators than shoes
>>MOCOFO Set of 2 Foldable Storage Baskets Needs Containers Organizer With
Cotton Closet Removable Dividers
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Facebook – 10/4/17
adulting under dirty glass
tubed room, translucent walls
sometimes we imagine the wrenches turning gone within us /dream a torqued solution
that sockets
the philosopher’s gauge
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our pain a landscape with fluid frame
pinch a backlit border pretend history at the pixel level
==========>our subject: the glare of yellowed star
pre-Cambrian light collapsing into now
its gleam a luminal artifact, experienced as filtered modality
we pass
among friends
our metaphysics is interface
our history a lossy compression
**
WILLIAM LESSARD has writing that has appeared in McSweeney’s, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Prelude, and Fanzine. His work has also been featured at MoMA PS1.
