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Alan Sondheim

my: “Her beautiful legs were visible on the sofa thoro’s a noodlo in my skull...”

 

Alberta

Rock hard warsaw: New directions in spam, part two.

 

Alex Subrina

Short poems: “...e-nuff.com”

 

Alfred Breton

stencil see the newest info platonist: New directions in spam, part seven.

 

Anna Chapin Ray

from Half a Dozen Girls: All about “the V”

 

Anonymous

Candy cane and flower: A doodle found at a party.

Signature of a postal worker: Yes, a signature of a postal worker.

Help wanted: TPM Manager: A found prose poem. “BS, MS or PhD degree in EE, ChE, IE, ME or related field.”

Little Robin red breast: “Niddle, Noddle...”

 

Anthony Easton

Three photographs: Not safe for work.

 

Arnold Bennett

from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: “No newspaper reading in trains!”

 

Austin Luckhardt

The best collection on Cartiers and Bvlgary, start the e shopping. siskin: New directions in spam, part eight.

 

Bracebridge Hemyng

from Jack Harkaway and His Son’s Escape From the Brigands of Greece: “Silent and gloomy, like a table of metal”

 

Catherine Daly

From the Baltimore Catechism: “according”

A pair of Pirandello paradelles: Six-line stanzas in search of an alter.

Let her: “...just can’t trust kismet any longer.”

 

Charles Ardinger

All day: Twenty-three words. One might be missing.

 

Charles Darwin

from The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations of their Habits: “a vacuum was produced beneath the truncated slimy end of the body...”

 

Charlotte Wells

Epistemology as divorce: “I have seen an entire month’s allowance blown on cheese and wine!”

The bee’s knees: The very things.

Not an acceptance speech: “admitted manslaughter”

 

Cherry W. Beard

Tadalafil Soft Tabs - Great results!: New directions in spam, part eleven.

 

Chris Muñiz

Stuff my girlfriend said about me in her thesis presentation: “I increased his dosage gradually to 400 milligrams per day...”

 

Chris Piuma

Wild Abandon: Dark red.

W Hotel: A grassy knoll.

The Children’s Museum: Bright tiles.

The Modern Zoo: It’s all happening at the zoo.

Kate’s Joint: Moob!

Stadium Fred Meyer: Stained stadium.

The ballad of Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma: Part one: “little boring dittty out to you.”

Standing Stone Brewing Co.: Shiny, shiny.

The ballad of Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma: Part two: “it’s a warlock i’ve met, n’est-ce pas?”

The Rabbit Hole: Splatter.

The ballad of Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma: Part three: “I mean, I’m not, people get it wrong?”

Kelly’s Olympian: Follow the light.

The ballad of Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma: Part four: “Although I imagine there’s more than one interpretation.”

The Cupping Room: Matisse?

Western Development Museum: Off in the prairies

Costello’s Travellers Caffe: See the world as I see you.

Pavlo’s: The glory.

Lincoln Hall: It isn’t easy.

Thai Thai Two: Birds in flight.

Open sea patter, operatic: “Addled typically by scale...”

Stumptown Coffee: Ancient pyramids.

Subway (fast food restaurant): Odd shapes.

Al Amir: Hooked.

Thank you for your interest: “These orotundular indesegnati enserve you...”

The Forks Tourist Information Centre: Tapes.

Esso Station: Instructions.

Mono Lake Community Information Center And Bookstore: Instructions.

You’re fired!: “...when they found out he was calling 900 numbers.”

Diamond Lake picnic area: Severe stripes.

Burger King: A clean and pink glow.

Bellagio: Smoking or non-smoking.

Shell Station: Pollock.

Petro-Canada: I will go.

Maritime Museum: Brown tiles.

KOIN theatre: Latchwork.

Esso station: Things to do in Neepawa.

Queen of Sheba: A clean, well-lit room.

Sin soup: Play along at home!

Tim Hortons: Powdered donut residue.

Constellated sonnet II: “beseige”

Constellated sonnet CX: “Your”

Constellated sonnet XVI: “But”

Constellated sonnet CXII: “mind”

Constellated sonnet XLI: “liberty”

Constellated sonnet CXXI: “vile”

Constellated sonnet LI: “excuse”

Constellated sonnet CXXX: “heart”

Constellated sonnet LVII: “tend”

 

Christi Rose

Call today, work tomorrow!: “Wait, nevermind. They want someone who uses WordPerfect 5.1, not Word. Hmm.”

 

Clai Rice

Nobody reported them missing, so I kept them: “I found an eye...”

 

David Abel

Cold quatrain no. 1: “for his true garden of sleep”

Cold quatrain no. 2: “my beat friend’s delirious”

Cold quatrain no. 3: “dreams sweeter sweat”

Cold quatrain no. 4: “chain symphony”

 

David Baptiste Chirot

coal-age poem: BASSO POEFrOUNDo: Read this with a friend or a few.

 

David Belasco

from The Girl of the Golden West: “I guess I’m queer...”

 

Dio Cassius Cocceianus

from The History of Rome: Nero, and his mother.

 

Emily Dickinson

First words of famous poems: Part one

 

Ezra Pound

First words of famous poems: Part seven

 

Francis Raven

Why I hate Bukowski: “Of the typewriter poets, Bukowski is the worst.”

Wittgenstein and difficulty (a notationing): Uncertain thoughts on a certain philopher.

 

Frank Haskell

from Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg: “but still the battle there goes on!”

 

Geof Huth

The Av & the aesh: Neobetisms “A” and “a”.

The Bee & the be: Neobetisms “B” and “b”.

The Divicee & the marricee: Neobetisms “C” and “c”.

The Edb & the deb: Neobetisms “D” and “d”.

The Eellipsees & the eess: Neobetisms “E” and “e”.

The Feef & the efft: Neobetisms “F” and “f”.

The Gej & the ghee: Neobetisms “G” and “g”.

The Halves & the half-knot: Neobetisms “H” and “h”.

The Ditted & the un-ij: Neobetisms “I” and “i”.

The Quoje & the fijjook: Neobetisms “J” and “j”.

The Kni & the kappak: Neobetisms “K” and “k”.

The Algle & the dottle: Neobetisms “L” and “l”.

The Emt. & the emn: Neobetisms “M” and “m”.

The Nee & the ne: Neobetisms “N” and “n”.

The O’d-o & the oxe: Neobetisms “O” and “o”.

The PeeD & the pec: Neobetisms “P” and “p”.

The Quarrow & the qwu: Neobetisms “Q” and “q”.

The Ares & the arngle: Neobetisms “R” and “r”.

The Commass & the sed: Neobetisms “S” and “s”.

The Exclamatsions & the tef: Neobetisms “T” and “t”.

The Separatu & the quuma: Neobetisms “U” and “u”.

The Slashvee & the vieuw: Neobetisms “V” and “v”.

The Triple-U & the triple-v: Neobetisms “W” and “w”.

The Varat & the xomma: Neobetisms “X” and “x”.

The Vy & the yu: Neobetisms “Y” and “y”.

The Ezz & the zevv: Neobetisms “Z” and “z”.

The Areplusand & the isplusand: Neobetisms “&” and “+”.

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

First words of famous poems: Part ten

 

Giraldus Cambrensis

from The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales: Twelfth Century Wales.

 

Harry Leon Wilson

from Ruggles In Red Gap: “He was an American, as one might have fancied from his behaviour...”

 

Herman Melville

from Moby-Dick: The dart

from Moby-Dick: The crotch

from Moby-Dick: The whale as dish

from Moby-Dick: The blanket

 

Herodotus

from The Histories: Solon talks of happiness

from The Histories: Do not make deals with the King.

 

Hewett

Office XP - $60: New directions in spam, part nine.

 

J.A. Lee

Twelve tickets: A word problem.

 

J.E. Roy

The Ramona School: “No brandy fumes in my Christmas pie”

 

Jack Kimball

It was fair all day in the big building: “A peed-on head & advances in grief...”

 

James Boswell

from The Life of Johnson: “an artificial water-fall”

 

John Birkbeck

Expanded limericks: “From the burial vault under St. Giles cathedral...”

 

John Bunyan

from The Life and Death of Mr. Badman: I suspect he’s a very bad man.

 

John M. Bennett

How to lib: Libbing in seven easy steps

How to vista: Vistaing in seven simple steps

How to palm: Palming in seven handy steps

How to lumber natter: Lumber nattering in seven adequate steps

How to waters: Watersing in seven swift steps

How to fonder: Fondering in seven pure steps

How to isolation: Isolationing in seven discrete steps

How to simper: Simpering in seven cogent steps

How to bottles: Bottlesing in seven equidistant steps

How to nozzle: Nozzling in seven narrow steps

How to seems: Seemsing in seven defiant steps

 

John Milton

First words of famous poems: Part five

 

Joseph Bradshaw

Ballade de Bethany: Part one: “She crammed the Bethany”

Ballade de Bethany: Part two: “Bethany has led us to the inescapable”

Ballade de Bethany: Part three: “When Bethany saw the Mars jet propulsion”

Ballade de Bethany: Part four: “Bethany stood guard over the bodies”

Ballade de Bethany: Part five: “It’s an affordable way of life.”

 

Joshua Hall-Bachner

Eliza vs. the Magic 8-Ball: “SAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS?”

 

Karen Jaffe

Dreaming of a Snickerbouquet...: Snickers arranged in a bouquet. Too good to be true.

 

Kate Douglas Wiggin

from The Old Peabody Pew: “what they call the ‘pitch’”

 

Lance Desimoni

up cyber power apathy: New directions in spam, part ten.

 

Lawrence Troupe

applied Our timepiece inventory obliges anyone to acquire an extravagant novelty. lethal: New directions in spam, part fourteen.

 

Lawrence Upton

Rebus: “ A picture of a cow...”

 

Leah Oppenheim

A short joke: “Why is a stove?”

 

Lord Byron

from The journal of Lord Byron: “the most ancient and withered of her kind”

 

Lorenzo Stievano & Chris Piuma

Perche tutti ti odiano: “Oggi non hai nemmeno un po’ di roba con te.”

Pills of life in Venice: S. Marta: “Inspection, the Financial Guard is always attentive to false steps.”

 

Lorna Smedman

Four poems: “Marvel on a phone. Some old jazz...”

 

Louis Zukofsky

First words of famous poems: Part four

 

Manny Reyes

Squid: I think it’s a squid.

Jellyfish: I think it’s a jellyfish.

Werewolf: I think it’s a werewolf.

Tapeworms: I think they’re tapeworms.

Bedbug: I think it’s a bedbug.

Snails: A doodle of snails.

UNLV summer school notes: “news magazines...”

Three paintings: Artwork damaged by the Hunter College art department.

 

Margaret Paston

from a letter to John Paston: “beware how ye walken if he be there, for he is upon you manly”

 

mARK oWEns

3 there poems: “write a short poem about your bike”

 

Mary Johnston

from Foes: “Mr. Archibald Touris sipped his tea.”

 

Michel de Montaigne

from On Books: “dazle, dul, and wearie the same”

 

Neal Plummer

SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT!18   year   old   Teengirl   Anne   and. Friends   their!!: New directions in spam, part fourteen.

 

Plato

from Phaedrus: For “grasshoppers” read “cicadas”.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

from Edinburgh Picturesque Notes: A footnote

 

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Table of Contents: “The agonizing pains and sorrow of his puppyhood&mdash”

 

Rodrigo Baxter

Relax truly every day: New directions in spam, part twelve.

 

Ron Henry

Troy, now: “Find it resting yellowed on gutted classics shelves.”

Down: “3.  Known, say, by your parents.”

Aresonance: “Latino du ringh...”

from “2.728 degrees absolute”: “I barely had time to trash the last house and we get a new one!”

Bulletin slash Burma: “...a man whom for an insincere or bonded league Americana base is wrapped w/a bunch of...”

from Epigraphy: “Donate whom you can. Meet what you would.”

Replace poet with person: “want to meet a person in person?”

[Fig. 116]: “Relayering the paint...”

Il penduto: “We always are having to sacrifice something, it seems.”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “as usual...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “beriberi...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “dumpster lid...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “restless...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “glass doors...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “three part...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “womenfolk...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “dollars...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “suitably awed...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “new stencils...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “skidding on...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “for I am...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “show me all...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “facial hair...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “baskets...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “items, graphic...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “a wire fence...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “the bell...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “each of them...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “a few hours...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “I think...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “sky not...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “my media...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “the wider field...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “basic provisions...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “rumors...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “bulletin...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “green railroad...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “us planes...”

Annotated history of my neighborhood: “litter car...”

Considering Silvia Plimack Margold’s “The inversion”: “...leafless trees outdoo...”

Today on cable: “The spacecapades of a musician-surgeon.”

Today on cable: “...Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.”

Today on cable: “Angelica accidentally handcuffs herself to Chuckie...”

Today on cable: “Accomplishments and idiosyncrasies and includes ‘Beavertales’—slices of Canadian history”

About Ron Henry: Everything you’d ever want to know about your favorite contributor.

Cant: “fishing for evidence—leaning too far over the edge—”

False Note: “Muzzle false.”

from Corrigenda: Mistakes were made.

Late September: “Meanwhile I remain gray-eyed and longing as any eveningtide.”

 

Stephen E. Putt

An retrospective analysis of Greco-Roman sporting history: New thoughts on old sports.

 

Steve Egan

Varie-“T” Comics: Andriods, robots, donkeys, mules, and industrial waste!

Varie-“T” Comics: Including the history of the lamp!

Varie-“T” Comics: What goes on in Oregon?

Varie-“T” Comics: The hidden lives of Hollywood!

Varie-“T” Comics: Death and berries!

Varie-“T” Comics: What do Panama and Purgatory have in common?

Varie-“T” Comics: The mysteries of JFK International Airport, and snails!

Varie-“T” Comics: I drink up facts! Do not break my glass filled with facts!

Varie-“T” Comics: Look at these hands, these mortal hands.

Varie-“T” Comics: Why do birds sing?

Varie-“T” Comics: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Moses, and you!

Varie-“T” Comics: Einstein vs. Star Trek!

Varie-“T” Comics: Deux francs!

Varie-“T” Comics: “Iron Hams” and the “Muffin Man”

Varie-“T” Comics: Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell!

Varie-“T” Comics: Enjoying life!

Varie-“T” Comics: Anniversaries and versification!

Varie-“T” Comics: Tag und Dandle!

Varie-“T” Comics: Clink, quack, die!

Varie-“T” Comics: Blood v. Grass!

Varie-“T” Comics: Dissection! Indigestion!

Varie-“T” Comics: So-so Robin Williams!

Varie-“T” Comics: Anarchy! Bees!

Varie-“T” Comics: Almost nothing but disappointment!

Varie-“T” Comics: Shreee! Also, Judas!

Varie-“T” Comics: Money! Peep!

 

Susie

Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier plus Internet Security 2005 - $39.95: New directions in spam, part six.

 

T.S. Eliot

First words of famous poems: Part two

 

Thaddeus Stull

goode Quick programmed carriege! Gain your medicinal faster. trump: New directions in spam, part thirteen.

 

The chef Maister Cokes of King Richard the Second

Tart de brymlent: “apples & peres clene ypiked”

 

Thomas Jefferson

from the First Inaugural Address: “an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think”

 

Tom Taylor

from Our American Cousin: “Soft soap!”

 

Tony Green

Reading matter: A photo by Tony Green.

 

Unconcernedly I. Testates

Gfdgfdfd, Instant Pleasures, Volume 2002: New directions in spam, part five.

 

Veronica

Expand your Penis 20% Larger in weeks: New directions in spam, part four.

 

W.B. Yates

First words of famous poems: Part eleven

 

W.E.B. DuBois

from The Souls Of Black Folk: “Yonder stretch the wide acres of Bildad Reasor”

 

Waldo Dowdy

You can eat whatever you want: New directions in spam, part one.

 

Wallace Stevens

First words of famous poems: Part six

 

Walt Whitman

First words of famous poems: Part three

 

Wassiri

AUGUST RX DISCOUNTS, SALE !!! graduates: New directions in spam, part three.

 

William Beverley Harison

from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It: Experiments in New York!

 

William Blake

First words of famous poems: Part nine

 

William Carlos Williams

First words of famous poems: Part eight

 

William Gillespie

The perfect man: The complete package.

A line a day: A line of news for Oct. 1, 2005

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William Morris

from The House of the Wolfings: The War-duke is chosen!

 

William Wordsworth

from Concerning the Convention of Cintra: “the most ancient and withered of her kind”

 

Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb

Freedom of thought: “The color of this painting is an agent of transformation that makes the prison world illusive.”

Edited by Chris Piuma