Fancy Beasts Excerpt

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Fancy BeastsPoems

By

Alex Lemon

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

iALSO BY ALEX LEMON .................................................

1come sweetly .............................................................2! ...............................................................................3being here .................................................................4all of the made roads ...................................................6way out west ..............................................................8ghost in the latrine ......................................................

10more wind ..................................................................

12it had only been dead a few hours .................................14haunt ........................................................................15the floppy instant ........................................................17here comes the mojo ...................................................19california hates you .....................................................20beautification campaign ...............................................22verde vista .................................................................

26bling ding bling ...........................................................27pins & needles ............................................................29heat ..........................................................................32redux ........................................................................35i love you big brother ..................................................37shall we be merry? ......................................................40fantasy island .............................................................43tick tick tick ...............................................................45theres so little to do in a hospital bed ............................47the new math .............................................................48my fallow human beans ...............................................50!! ..............................................................................51!!! .............................................................................65starved ......................................................................


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67fancy beasts ...............................................................69house rulez ................................................................71the nice .....................................................................74come get some ...........................................................76modern life ................................................................79we could boom boom ...................................................81erasure ......................................................................82the big one ................................................................85a little bit now ............................................................87cittern .......................................................................89the physics of sawing yourself in half .............................91please please more napalm ..........................................93operation: get down ....................................................94dear dysentery ...........................................................96all aboard ..................................................................97ABOUT THE AUTHOR ...................................................98acknowledgments .......................................................

99more books from milkweed editions ...............................102Front Cover Flap .........................................................103Back Cover Flap ..........................................................104Back Cover Material .....................................................


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ALSO BY ALEX LEMON

Happy: A MemoirHallelujah Blackout

Mosquito

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FOR ARIANE

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come sweetlyIt startsThe way

It endsFingers of

Impossible lightCrawling

Over yourFace. In

Betweenmind-Less waiting.

Mouth gunkOr a gunked

Up heartGoing is just

ClimbingBack inside.

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! Jesus is dead, Marx is dead, Elvis is dead And Im not feeling too good myself

A T-SHIRT IN SANTA MONICA

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being hereListless blight, safe words, every littleSound in the night is a gaspbone tip

Blossoming through skin. Its noBull, man. Anymore, were all winners

& afraid to pull these faces off.Maple leaves & plastic bags somersault

Through the park. One cloudGrips the moon. Call me anything

Before morning comes, little lover,Because its true & doesnt fucking matter.

Kill the lights. Feel the burn. Rev yourself Up & sing along with the good thrum

Found in everything. Hang aroundUntil the end. Melt my ashes on your tongue.

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all of the made roadsChoosingMy life, I drop

Quarters inThe slot

& selectThe worst

Song onThe jukebox

& then sneak

Out to

WatchThrough the rain-

Streaked glass.O feverish

PraiseI canFeel night

StruggleTo lay

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Back inIts own dark.

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way out westA hard rain will show the secretIn the architecture of bonesMuch better than sunlight believe meOr fractures I promise youSo soaked T-shirts drip like a true skinWhile we walk laughingDown the beach & after the drops stopPocking the water the tricksThat play on the growing green thenBluer waves O blackshark & tigerbellyOut there Believe me How I wishI could wrap everything I seeIn cellophane & keep it forever in the freezerThis fizzing pier life Arches paintedIn a crown of muscle men & clown facesRed coral lips & russet mustachesAll the finest whisperings of deeper-than-just-fleshEach sunset something out thereOn the horizon looks like its wavingAn arm going under & down VanishingInto the watery sweep & even in

The complete black afterEverythings slipped from the worlds shelf A sort of gravelly piano railsOver the palm trees hidden speakers & though Iknow

Some things believe me

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ghost in the latrineIf the choice betweenThe mens & womens

Restroom decidesYour identity, what does

The man playing air guitarWith a tennis racket

In front of the urinalsHave to do with Lacan?

I thought it was Larry Craig,

But he turned around & it was

Craig Mack that slapped me& said that this was his

House. It was a thousand degreesBeneath the sink lights.

I wanted to ask whyHe was in the ladies

Room, but the twistsIn my gut froze me.

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Razzmatazz sloppedAcross the tiles. My life

Story appeared in the mirrorSteam when he stormed

Out. I dont rememberThere being such a dearth

Of good music, so manyApples gonging on tin roofs.

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