“AN UNVARNISHED VINGNETTE”

(FOR DETROIT HORN PLAYERS)

by Faruq Z Bey

A CUTTING SESSION
ON A PLANETARY SCALE
@ THESE ARBITERS WHOSE ASSERTION. IS
A CLEANLY STYLED INFINITE RUN ON

A TERM THAT AVOIDS SYLLOGISM
OR CONCLUSION

II

DOMAINS, HABITS
CAUGHT…
IN MID STRIDE THAT
TALLISH TENOR SAXOPHONE STRUT
THAT ACEY DUECY FOOT COCKED
AT AN UNSEEMLY ANGLE
THAT GLANCED, NUANCED
GHETTO FACED CAUGHT…
BETWEEN A SMILE AND A SNARL

AS HE DRIFTED WITHOUT WILL
ALONG LINES OF CONVECTION CURRENTS
INTO THE ECHO LADEN CHANNELS
OF CONCRETE CANYONS TO CONFRONT
THAT DJINN IST GLIMPSED
IN “CRUPT COMIC”

…TO AVOID AN INCIDENTAL BOMBING OF THE GENERAL

by Faruq Z Bey

HIP-HOP GOT TO FIND
THE RUH OF HERU
AS IT WAFTS ABOVE
THE BLOODIED CORPSE
OF SCARFACE

WHILE SEARCHING FOR THE ENFOLDED KINKS
OF DIMENSION SECRETED IN WHORLS OF SUPER SYMMETRIES
IN OCCULTED DOMAINS OF DARK MATTERGEY
THE ETHEREAL THUGS OF HIP-HOP
LOOKIN FOR A DRIVEBY

A DEMISE COMMITTING SIDEWAYS

…BY BIG DRAMA

WHEREAS….
….AM I THE PROTAGONIST?
IS THIS A TALE
THATS ALL ABOUT ME?

OTHER WORLDS, OTHER KNOWINGS

by Faruq Z Bey

WHEN THE NAME…SOUNDING
THE VERBAL NOUN OF BEINGNESS
SPOKE WITH THE ‘MUS’ CHILD IN THE HILLS
OF SINAI ABOUT THE SUBTLTIES OF “AM” ING
HE SPOKE OF MORE THAN
THE GREGORIAN PLAINSONG…OF PREDICATES
MORE ESSENTIAL THAN THE PLAGAL CADENCE

A PSALM, A PSALM
A SONG A SONG
AND GOD DON’T SPEAK
IN “TIN PAN ALLEY”

HU SPEAKS THE TRUEST ‘STRAIGHT AHEAD’
‘THAT!” …AT THE RAZORS EDGE
‘THAT!”…BEYOND WAGNERIAN SONG FORM

HU SPEAKS THE TRUEST ‘STRAIGHT AHEAD’
THAT SAYS “NO ONE DIED FOR YOUR SINES”
YOUR CONCERNED WAVES OF INVOLUTION
SHOWN AT THE FRUIT OF INVERSE EVOLUTION
WHEN THE REDUCTIONIST DOLTS
UNSEEMLY MINIMALIST LIKE TRANE AND
‘NETTE

SUGGESTED UNSNARCED ANTHEMS
HUMBLING HINTS @ CLARITY
WITH ALIENATION @ AN EXISTENTIAL CRUCLBLE
WITH IBLIS @ YOUR CONFIRMATION

DREAMT SEQUENCE

by Fruqu Z Bey

CARNAL CONTRADICTALS
AT LAST POETS
POST-MODERN POETS
OF THIS…
THE HOME ZONES
ANALOGS..OF REDBONES
AND HIGH YELLAS
IN A POST DEPRESSION KANSAS CITY
ANA-OTHER NILE RIVER MYTH
…HABI…IN THESE STRAITS
CONSTRUCTS A CHANNEL FOR MOTION

@THE WALKING DREAM
IN THE “BLAQUE AUDIOGENICS
PREDICATES ASSN.”
THE AUDIO DJINNS RAISE A CLAMOOR
PROTESTING THE EXCLUSION OF AUDI-OGENICS
THE GREEK THE DJINN TILE
FROM AN ALREADY EXCLUSIVIST PRAYER CIRCLE
…BUT…
“HE DEDUCED HISSELF”
WE PROTESTED

 

Automotive Writing

Tyrone Williams

for James Hart, III


Not that no one, so today, lives to speak
of the dishwasher-bank teller complex.

Not that the long-played out grooves sing
off-tread the paved-over key.

Anyone-cum-thing but. Still,

late capitulation accumulates

as errata

as letters

of a disingenuous spirit

slipped between

reading boom

read bust.

Reading Ohio

Tyrone Williams


A former border town now a
township

stamped upon a tall glass of speed
trap

poured roll through a penta-
STOP—

she’s gone—

insipid lyric with a little English
on it—

backspin to the finished basement
on Burns

St. where I brushed against a still
wet

Tapeworm

Tyrone Williams



I am listing on indivisible seas…














I can taste the sirens in the background…

from Lake Effects

Mike Sikkema


At the pipe line one fake gun

is safer than any others.


Clear so cold.

We make due with oblong


long odds and make for a soft target

audience all caught up in a smile


everyone thought was

a barn owl.

from Lake Effects

by Mike Sikkema

Day caught day’s snow black rounds

wide white white. “Bait bullets booze”

and bird salad shine is fine. So

I’ll take the quick trip to johnny cash


register, thanks. There’s

this form where I’m forgetting.

from Lake Effects

by Mike Sikkema

Hay wagon radicals think shit’s money

are right about both

but can’t carry over violin

bird-chase effects for shit.

From the first some animals:

the fiddle-head rat, three-legged


ground cloud, the blade,

and star-nosed mole.


Say the uncle in the truck

and all the missing facts pretty


in a row. You can just

look at a child and point in


any direction.