Compunction

involves guilt, self-reproach,
contrition.

It doesn't truly obtain
otherwise---which is to say
that it is an offense
and a lie to announce "I'm driven
by compunction" when
you are actually suffused by

lyrical weltschmerz, which absolves any
one from personal shame.
..........
Resolutely staying open to, and hurting on
behalf of, the world's pageant of evils
is a noble comportment and mode.

Compunction, on the other
hand, is ignoble stabs
of self-loathing and striking
your chest with your own fist.
..........
The word should never
be claimed but
through lips trembling

with real fear, real grief
over one's own failures and malignity.

If you don't feel those things then
shut the fuck up about compunction.

Courtesy Lorine Niedecker

Lugubre for a child
but for you, little one,
life pops
------from a music box
shaped like a gun.

Some days you find
you are a furnishing
in your own home

a kinetic embellishment
tricked out just right
matching the scheme

Some days you find
a tiny fly in an empty
green mug

lying on its back
dried-out to greyness
spaceship-like

Some days you can't
write, but you do
anyway
......................
No one dead
from the rain today
I hope

no drivers out
there who lost
control, etc.
......................
Each thing so close to
every other thing, colluding
so the given day'll render

Nothings

av-----av
ert----oid

thews, thaws---rueful or dour
hew haw

THE 7 DEADLY SINS AS
DISORDERED LOVES

turn, or tune it, run, ruin, tinny, tiny
twin/n/ed---

An eschatological way of seeing
of operating
that works hard not to
pose, impose, and imposter---
that expects unknowns
to seep out/break forth---

NOT TREATING BUT TREATING OF
to minister and not administer

Morphologies of effects:
themes, motifs, pheno/arche-types...

TO TEND (intrans.), TO TEND (trans.), TO TENDER
firstness is savor, how something feels, all sense-
perception as taste-&-touch...

((epiphenomena are overlapping numbers
played on vibraphones---a fluid
surround, a billion
or so invisible dull barbs

keeping you in place))

I do not espouse openness

neither do I espouse closure

but I do reject the rejection
of it

Icons

Ladykillers and Maneaters,

WE

are insects

in love