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BILL LESSARD

blue tartan kilt Sylvia wore to her first suicide;
sold for $14,000

spectacle the sizzle
brand against flesh against flesh

story about Hollywood about Buddhists
suing each other
for 100 million

Dalí walking pet anteater in Paris (1969)

—the new flâneur journeying by thumb
glass perambulations

miracle that requires two (2) forms of ID

New York the crime drama
filmed in Pittsburgh

single fleck of glitter found at tip of penis
provenance unknown

on the 90th day of January,
ice cream as sympathetic magic

Sontag making Mailer’s exposed chest hair wilt

a penetrative agent
that colorizes
the fabric

meant to be sipped from a shell with pickled flowers dotting the lip

neurocuration
the artist
living on
as rogue AI

—to own the painting
and the hatred that made it

gaze making U-turn
into
oncoming hermeneutic

the world’s oldest spider that died in a burrow pursed with silk

wrong
to date someone
from
a different algorithm? (Y/N)

99 cents in the app store

yoni,
a Sanskrit word
conflating
vagina
and
sacred space

Liz Taylor asking why she was only queen in Technicolor

triptych,
for when we paint our sin

drips missing the canvas,
true confession

wonder if Louise’s spiders
were based on anyone she knew

wrapping your body in wool on the last day of April

KIT KAT®
for dinner
as way
of staying
young

the German word
for “man who eats dinner
in a hole he pretends
he is unable
to climb out of”

Asgard AmEx

Miles thinking of someone he hates, extinguishes cigarette with sole of his Italian loafer

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every time the screen darkens,
the slate Malevich gave us

the last human sound
passed
between teeth

the air inside Miles’ trumpet no longer human breath