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Cellphone Poem Sequence #1

woke @ noon/slept @
4/woke @ 515, tv until
1/train outside sounds
like dial up internet
circa ‘98

georgetown spring
afternoon/19cents and
flattened pack of
half-smoked cigs from
north ave sidewalk

georgetown H&M/pop
art MoMA
macbook/fedoras,
lucked out

realization that
everything you own is
an upside-down
cross/lucked out

urban outfitters lending
  library and bicycle
rental services/cuffed
jncos

falafel shop/new
money, cilantro and
cucumbers/denim shirt
smells like cats & dogs
in remington

brown mallard leading
green-headed/mosquito
s and hazy particulates
of weed/i smoke a
cigarette

parrot rattling cage on
linoleum countertop/bug
  flies into bamboo
shades in livingroom
and dies

‘how do you draw
dubstep on an
iphone?’/pingpong and
beer is cheaper in
elkridge

ceiling fan keeps
rhythm on screened in
porch/coconut rum and
coors light/low-level
anxiety

Mattress Discounters

They bought a bed on the first day
of Mattress Discounters’ liquidation sale.
When the bed springs broke and they wanted a return,
the tag had been ripped off,
the store was closed.

Dude’s Night Out

       1. Grubstep

    Pizza is easy.
    Hand somebody four dollars in change
    rip the cheese off and
    no one is going to say anything.
The cheese has onions in it and I want to pick them out but I don’t.
    So much depends upon
    five cans of Dr. Pepper and
    enough grease to empty the napkin dispenser and
    Twilight on the TV w/ commercial interruptions.
I think I feel good enough to spend over $30 tonight.
This strip mall has a liquor store.

       2.  Pubstep

    At a bar w/ ‘the new rich.’
    Nuclear engineering, ‘smart phone’ firmware, GIS.
They want to pick up the tab so I drink cheap beer.
I don’t want them to pick up the tab.  I’ll drink the shots they buy me.
I feel like the music in this room is trying to fuck me to death.
I feel like the people here are content
and have somewhere to be tomorrow.
Every time I piss in the urinal I think about how I’m pissing in the urinal.
I spend $46 on cheap beer and yell at people.
Some of them talk about discontent but I don’t understand.
We wait for a taxi and I’m the only person who can’t stand up.

       3.  Rubstep

The internet connection is down.
There is something wrong with my body.