Poetry
Some Brooklyn Northside Calaveritas
Suppose
pondering the cultural flock
some high noon
mock sacrificial
metallurgic offering—
to recuse
himself
arrivismo?
subjective
transference
“chosen”
Into a pit
pleasant paranoia
peaceful
feeling—
A break from
prolet-kampf
agonistics?
Blows up
in a materialite-speckled
face
Hungering
resist
two specialties
Content and its
porns
History not as something
you can live to tell your children
whispering
a tin heart—
a silver stomach—
(a steel-tempered—
into a chrome-plated—)
get youself
with someone else alloy
and forge
a borg-like
transference
a real estate
shake out
snatch up
a Lazarus come back from
graduate studies
sarcasmic
mock ecstatic
“please!”
(in polish)
prosz_
Acclimate?
frightening how fast
rousted
from The Southside
Boriquas
“fuckin’ bummed out, dude, just—”
chasing the creamer?
Silicon pilgrims conferring
(as ever)
On the runway
Bedford L-stop
prima donut
silver
diablo
vivora
adjective
blizzard
live / wack (off)
space conversion
beezulhubbub “nifty”guy
goofbar—
$4.50
a pint!
Kurva!
americanium
[that’s a real element by the way]
americanium
-plated
buns!
carbo’s—
into super
buggery insulin-spiking
conversion
a Iago-like
“wacky wit”
follows
an art-fart
come out
the mouth
poesy
an anarcho
-what-have-you-ist
slides into
dapper doubt—
after Nader
*
titanium birds chirping
(makes this an installation thing)
*
static
from the vibrant
lebensraum
lofts
*
we are chosen
*
transference
*
recused?
yes!
I am not of
said subcults of weird
displaced
(offset)
politics
*
(or am I?)
*
stress like that
*
squeezing out
alu-mi-ni-um
doodad
happiness
*
Trotsky: how’d you get here?
Me: how’d you get here?
Rodrigo Toscano’s three books include Partisans (O Books), The Disparities (Green Integer) and Platform (Atelos). His poetry has recently appeared in Cross Cultural Poetics, Kenning Audio Editions, and Cities of Chance: An Anthology of New Poetry from The United States and Brazil (Rattapallax). His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Toscano lives in Brooklyn, and can be reached at [email protected]