DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN

 

 

paper fortune


/ journey to west returns with ESL kick / to a violent end / you pack boning blade / sharpened on rosary beads / slipped into long pants / not the first tape-loop / but the clearest / one-handed forest / tree falling / mandarin fingers / long-nail knives

/ metal city / pass restaurants / various ethnicities / turkish gun powder saladin soup / bursting ripe ouzo breast / marco polo pasta spoon / all different places / uh / let us think together / universal mind / uh / hot dog eatery / uh / glimmering relish / uh / hot onion / putrefaction / uh / your meat-eater’s eyes / uh / cajun / uh / zydeco boiling / uh / gravity spots / uh / ok it is / chinese it is / nothing / uh / like the sun /

/ chinatown / dressed duck in chayote squash / save eyes / chopstick-popped swollen marbles / vancouver / no green-bean garlic sauce / salted eons / san francisco / you order chop suey now / chicken chow mein / moo go guy pan / general tsao chicken / and you / my friend / chicago / with pale complexion / you / yes / order sweet and sour pork / the other white meat / philadelphia / forbidden city / tasting all dishes / new york / a smorgasbord / ha ha / london / smorgasbord in chinatown / what next / mao zedong / along the seine / you swallow / hard /

/ their darkness enters the room / begin with fortune cookie / someone eats out too often / their darkness / opium center / enter the room / spilling tails / coiled / prehensile / capuchin monks / shivering fur bundle / orange-flavored preservative / hallucinate forward / 4000 year-old colon / backward / shitting rotting eon /

/ they run / opium jungle / food sick / howler monkeys fling feces / you duck / behind / tree to tree / monkey close / humans here / monkey shiver darkness / you wait beyond / their darkness / silver cage / lying monkey / unlock the bars / laying monkey / open door / monkey talk / pour the ether / monkey speak / douse the rag /

/ monkey drowsy / carry monkey / monkey sleep / handsome species / monkey staring / look at monkey / chest out / monkey pretty / legs apart / monkey smart / fists clench / monkey angry / foreign tongue / monkey language / years thousand / monkey jungle / glaciers running / monkey time / eons passing / monkey screams / wooden table / monkey crying / future bloody / monkey shines / future bloody / monkey shines

/ wait a moment—upset rhythm—curse chinese / now / fuck mandarin to riddle bits / 4000-year pestilence / yarrow stick reeds / yellow river / opium river / yangtze river / i-ching river / squirming speech / 4000 nothings / muttering sickness / grizzled monkey / paleozoic struggle / sound out / sun close to planet / talking / full-voiced aspirates / tickling heat corona / you raise blade / texturing epiglottis / you knife gleaming / kissing moon and stars / monkey breathing heavy / and then / and until / and maybe / and perhaps / penumbra \ eclipse \ darkness \ nothing \ screeching / screeching \ horrible / utterances \ screeching \ syl / lab \ les

/ your \ bon / ing \ knife / lift \ back / ward \ slice / your \ own / ro \ sa / ry \ tongue

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