Penelope
pride the pounding
and fake fire for ceremonies
daddy long-legs
approach enormous wooden
staircase
grandma brings out
chinese checker board
whole house
smells of apricots
weeks go by
the film Shampoo
had grossed
area near new mexico
another old woman
living in mud floors
massive
fir
you
sun
Penny Lopia
I could set it down in a box
if a white kitten
or 'The Italian'
who would turn everything inside out
guts to organ music
Its ancient terricloth
independent
worldly
the arabs and I
politely
the whole apartment building
was a crack house
gave us bad concrete
black marine
a recovering addict
a homosexual man
i guess
his whole apartment
covered in layers of wrestling images
all those wrestling magazines
destroyed
we had to replace his door
ate at Wendy's alot
Penny Nail Loping
Like as if it had been an underwater
labyrinth
the divers swimming upwards
through vertical shafts
reaching some segment
where a high vaulted section
let in the light
a place near
a thing like an iron pollen grain
the whole place vibrating
and we died there
too many locks
Houdini's transparent
tadpole parasite breather
living impasto
you'd think
In all its unforgiving chrome mind
In all its foundational struts
and huge rubber doughnuts
there'd be something to tell
how this cube
would remain motionless
our bodies sluiced up
through transparent columns
to god knows where
Penny Lopia is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThe new hard nostalgia.
I remember that job
ReplyDeletebecause we were concrete workers
mostly, and the arab guys would pray
and the concrete was shitty
so had to use bit metal vibrators
the whole thing was odd
big metal vibrators
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