One Every 24 #45

Silent Movie with a Final Scene Inside Your Car

Luminous, exploding into the instant
We fall upon each other across the seats
Throw pancake looks against the levered
Light piling through the A.M. streets
Stunned by this quality production
Torn by yet another fried egg sunrise
And the shock of our disdain, such a mute
Imposition upon our fiery vomiting
The washed-out black and white grace
Inside our argued embrace rising as we rise
Through the lie of our being and the truth
We need to become each of us throwing
The other aside even as we're thrown
Aside by the other. And wan, so wan
Our pressed-glass daguerreotype pause
Beneath our precipice grip now dangling
Us at the very brink of us, as we are wanting
Rescue clinging to the lip of the zebra
Striped clapper, that toothless alligator
Mouth singing the live organ soundtrack
Wanting only gravity, closure, action
Between our fading in and fading out.

One Every 24 #44

Attention Beneficary (sic) Outing You Who are Not You #3

This is to intimate you
of a very important information
which will be of a great help to redeem
you from all the difficulties you have been
experiencing in getting your long overdue
payment due to excessive demand for money
from you by both corrupt officials
and Courier Companies after which your fund
remain unpaid to you. I am Mr. Joefrery Cole
the Financial Counselor and Director Monetary
and Capital Markets Department.
I'm a highly placed official
of International Monetary Fund. (IMF)

It may interest you to know that reports
have reached our office by so many
correspondence on the uneasy way
which people like you are treated
by Various Banks and Courier Companies
across Europe to Africa and Asia
and we have decided to put a stop to that
and that is why i was appointed to handle
your transaction here in Nigeria. All


Governmental and Non-Governmental parasites
NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security
Companies and Courier companies which have
been in contact with you of late have been
instructed to back up from your transaction
and you have been advised NOT to respond
to them anymore since the IMF is now
directly in charge of your payment.
You are hereby advised NOT to remit
further payment to any institutions
with respect to your transaction
as your fund will be transferred to you
directly from our source.

I hope this is clear. Any action contrary
to this instructions is at your own risk.
Respond with immediate effect and we shall
give you further details on how your fund
will be released. Also call me as soon
as you send the e-mail (joefreycole@att.net)
so that you will be given an immediate response:

Direct Hotline: +234-813-669-4069
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Mr. Joefrery Cole
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
FINANCIAL MONITORY DEPARTMENT/UNIT

One Every 24 #43

Us Kids in Left Field

Snuck through windows after dark to pinch
Marlboros between thumbs and index fingers

Arced the glow of those half-smoked hot-boxed
Cigarettes over the chain link home run fence

Sprawled on trimmed grass passing a bottle
Between the boys we were and the men

We imagined ourselves to be. Once
Named Royal, Angel, Tiger, Twin

We made a point of tripping over the chalked
Foul line as we struck out for home at dawn.

One Every 24 #42

broken manifesto

fistula asks aneurysm
what of it, (the how of our mind's eye
watching over the body's desire
to not go terribly wrong all at once
how we're cut loose by our oblivious
obvious: our collected matter's
impossible chance to make history
or thank you for a blessing given
at the snag of a sneeze, to know
and forget the constant rivers
of our blood, the work done by liver
heart and lung, the muscle's torque and each
thing given by the continual electrical
hum of brains, the toddler's laugh
the unavoidable act of your thinking
these words you read, the simply impossible
coagulations of physics proven by our being
and that mute purity lost and found
within) our need for beliefs born
through with the ruin of creeds?

One Every 24 #41

Slough

Sick sinking deeper into the mud
Hollow on the inside, black
Water taint to the lust for this
Bottled between stagnant thighs

Your wound, our sore, my inflammation
Says the mass of dead tissues
Separating us from the living. Cast

Off, we’re shedding our reptile minds
Rising up from below the surface
Our smoother skin beyond the lace
Left behind, a fragile split revealing

Our newer selves as we writhe
Toward the shine.

One Every 24 #40

You Have Pakage (sic) Outing You Who You Are Not #2

Greetings.



I am Mr David White , i have been
waiting for you since to contact me
for your Confirm able Bank Draft
of $50.000.00 United States Dollars,
but I did not hear from you since that time.



Then I went and deposited the Draft
with FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West

Africa, I Traveled out of the country
for a 3 Months Course and I will

not come back till end of November.

What you have to do now is to contact

the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE
as soon as possible to know when
they will deliver your package to you
because of the expiring date.

For your information,The money
you will send to the FEDEX COURIER

SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct
to your postal Address in your country

is($210.00US) Dollars only being Security

Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.

Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay
any other money except $210.00US Dollars.
I would have paid that but they said no
because they don't know when you will contact them

and in case of Dumorrage.You have to 

contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now
for the delivery of your Draft
with
 this information bellow;

Contact Person:Mr. Mike Aderson


EMAIL: fedexcourier1@ufo.tc

Telephone: +2348074009126

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm
your Names,Postal address() and Direct 
tell
number to them again to avoid any mistake.



Yours Faithfully,

Mr David White

One Every 24 #39

That One Night He Flamed up in Knuckles

and the blood running down his face was just
a reminder of everything he'd forgotten to lose
on his way there, the feeling of being cut
loose through the void of Saturday night

's alright for fighting, so the song says and the grainy
movies played out across his youth had shown him where
beer waited on bathtub ice and the boom box brought
in to reel around cassette after cassette of heavy mayhem,

he decided she just wasn't worth it. How else was he to piece
this escape together, the whys behind her after hours invitation
to the cheap motel room party where they could lock eyes a little
longer before the wasted dimmed out with dawn and left them

alone. Pulling up into the space right outside the door, eighteen
and wearing his leather and having his long hair grabbed
before he'd even dropped leg two out of the car, and kicked
three or four quick shots by some other high school's

resident stoner badass who'd mistaken him for a different
rival. He'd thumped the greasy kid's rage off with the door
fell back into the seat and dropped the Charger into reverse
(never even took the keys out the ignition)
burned serious rubber and began laying plans

for that one night he flamed up in knuckles

and the blood running down his face was just
a reminder of everything he'd forgotten to lose
on his way there, the feeling of being cut
loose through the void of Saturday night

's alright for fighting, so the song says and the grainy
movies played out across his youth had shown him where
beer waited on bathtub ice and the boom box brought
in to reel around cassette after cassette of heavy mayhem,

he decided she just wasn't worth it. How else was he to piece
this escape together, the whys behind her after hours invitation
to the cheap motel room party where they could lock eyes a little
longer before the wasted dimmed out with dawn and left them

alone. Pulling up into the space right outside the door, eighteen
and wearing his leather and having his long hair grabbed
before he'd even dropped leg two of the car, and kicked
three or four quick shots by some other high school's

resident stoner badass who'd mistaken him for a different
rival. He'd thumped the greasy kid's rage off with the door
fell back into the seat and dropped the Charger into reverse
(never even took the keys out the ignition)
burned serious rubber and began laying plans