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wire fences roadside ditches
billy cancel

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 cook out upon Injured Soil

copper sunset Club Bovine reflects
desert some dud trees     basically
toxic streams where    Citric Cedric
dives for coins    Crab Monster Attack
stalksthe driveways    south of
Horse Head’s Village where
tragic derek clocks Imaginary
Man.          pass me another

kettle     of boiling
veg.       you

might think it bunk but
people are acting upon this
coming out party for Chaos
Magic    unhitched
misplay
ESCALATES

 PARADISE within our twitch

i guess?       since flying monkeys
randomly still manifest throughout
you balance your interest in psychic
news    with some
carefully cultivated
normality bias.       arrows against

everything    Everything versus
Arrows    between the miniature
railway and the Nuclear Power Station
someone’ll drop their shadow.        Was

a stinging wind    and we
were both so arctic alone
hugging the Coastline of
Consensus Reality until you
scored tickets to Straw Bear
Tuesday.         honey suckle

lilac blooms flanked our
path    that led us past barbed
wire fences roadside ditches then
finally       Bionic Valley Research Park.

my Sputnik Hairdo in BBQ Mode

highlights poor process chemical damage
& everything is terrible – magic – a la minute
militant    rows of white oak draped in
flowing spanish moss reduced to weedy
lot low mounds of
rocks.       there’s

fish & money people then the
non-tipping public burnt out from that
Grand Tour of The Planets   where were
you dredged up from? for this churning
chugging signal do i get mate’s
rates?       the road to our nation’s

Mutton Capital is brambly.      lights
out & cry only means   liver &
onions.    even
the hamster gets off the wheel sometimes
if nothing splits.

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billy cancel is a Brooklyn based poet, performer and collage artist. His latest collection BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE is out on Broadstone Books. His poetry has most notably appeared in Boston Review, PEN America and The Rialto (UK.). With Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds) he makes up the noise band Tidal Channel. www.billycancelpoetry.com