I wonder if anything really needs to be revived.
Mad magazine should probably be dead by 1984
rather than: $2.50 CHEAP. It’s difficult

I read
a book &
then I want
to read
another
one about
Russia

Fresca’s got a new look
but I’m not drinking
that. My coke

She prefers
my phone &

using my
computer
w out the burden
of her life
last night
I described
it open
a circle
she kisses
my knee
its life
that is
my name
they thought
she had
a lot
I think
it’s enough
I mean
it’s astonishing
if I had (his)
I could
feel everything
but as it is
I know
what it is
I love your
lips.

Do you
only
go to new
places
is it true
did the
planet
just get
born

I found a lengthy word with a non-Russian ending,
unwittingly, inside a children’s storybook,
and turned away from it with a strange kind of shudder.

You can only have a lot of power,
never enough:
the strength to lift

Flinging sticks and calling
to an amphibian black dog,
he clings, buoylike, though probably

I bought a camera, though there were
many reasons not to.
In spite of the reasons not to

Why do it? shrilled the bird,
the as-yet-unnamed, a
candidate for new coinage,
namely widewit,