making a road where one isn't it's
all in an aim and a push with the foot

the Olds Cutlass leaps into the bushes
what used to be a footpath

becoming a one lane highway
to nowhere

specific
 

I don't know
I've never thought

of measuring it
like that
 

Jimmy on death
having lived there

and continuing to do so
so that writing always seems an impossibly unfinished task

having run into the impossibility of
a word

asking about that
a man then publicly boils

as asking
if is it

is this a city
cause cannot say cock on tv

some death
be bidden

the blues even be
banned

America
snaps first surface of some scenic thing

airy that is that
as electric

no one can hold it
not that

it is prohibitive and snaps hot in the sky
white hot purple the place or the topic of place

is it descriptive
it is descriptive

is it heavy
it isn’t heavy

the entire system of human pursuit
what problem with words taken from elsewhere

a false discontinuity
somethings get hidden in English

isn’t it here it
isn’t here

that lack as that this it
is that it is this

word
which isn’t here

sorry
that cannot be said

having run into the impossibility
of a word

snap first surface of something
now seen as if

this agitation of air
were something uttered
 

to assume some
thing secret

as and
as if

and then
to trace

the outline
of if it

whatever
that is as

America
and then to describe that picture in words

and call that
an ism
 

time registered as
moving merely between

two literal points the
birth and a death of

one individual that
as an imaginative failure
 

portions of being might ask
what I was not anyway asking

that
as a failure on my part it

isn’t given
a number
 

think then of that
as a failure

to realize
what wasn't allowed
 

just because
I don't get it

but wasn't
absent and

that as a reason
for why it then

isn't
remembered
 

as if an
idiot

I
not meaning

me
might

when what gets
forgotten

doom(s) this blank space to
failure
 

rather than celebrating
common anonymity and

submersion within a vast
biological moment self

self self and self
as an assertion

of one hungering
will sometimes a blindness