“The Unruly Child” — Bob Perelman

There is a company called Marathon Oil, mother,

Very far away and very big and, again, very

Desirable. Who isn’t? Back connecting pure dots,

Fleecy intelligence lapped in explanatory sound

The faces make difficult.

Learn the language.

That beautiful tongue-in-cheek hostage situation:

My mind, up close, in pjs, and I use it.

Wanting to fuck an abstraction nine times in a row,

Continuous melismata, don’t stop, don’t stop, no name, no picture.

There is a series of solids, mother,

Called people, who rise to the transparent obtainable

Solo windows, mornings, afternoons,

And there are military operations called

Operation Patio, Operation Menu.

It is the individuals who finally get the feel of the tenses.

So that it may snow, has to snow on the muddy corpse.

There is a boundary, mother, very far away and very

Continuous, broken, to interrogate civilians, the self,

The text, networks of viewers found wanting a new way

To cook chicken, why not?, to kill while falling asleep.

There is the one language not called money, and the other not called explosions.