On Ryan Gallagher’s Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs

 

 

Hey mister / this is great /

not all made up / except for Bernadette Mayer /

a human flash card universe / from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 66 /

“a valentine” for Frank / like the tongue /

a postcard    but / Formal structure /

started at the Kerouac / becomes color structure /

from Ohio to hell in a letter from New York / plum smash /

an unflipped I / all made up /

from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 63 / on styroform floatation devices /

foaming frothy and bombastic? / slang in /

neon wild / Lou Reed /

blue note brass frog burps / might be lazy /

language like licking / sexy /

Pumpkin on hunter green canvas / like a western musical. /

full of yoga and clunking / Onyx and globules of graffiti /

 

 

Bootstrap Press

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