set1

precious 27 sic; the portholes

moontowel

led

attraction of f(r)ingers

speedoling downlid

some o’ the best beebop piana i ever heard

chance is a bag fell outo the bag

the disc

unspun & wandered

blue folk left

1st the ones with little kids

expensive family outing

out being as far out as sitting in a room

with an U.F.O. can

get

just fell outto the mo(u) o ebabs

like toothes with working titles etched invisibly

inta ’em

only abbreviated maybe to untake plaque

for the best charge a minimumsword

help yerself to the fries & wise-ums

spotlit(s)

& clean too

insensitive dewguns

sumtime

regraph the caterpultin

& in this case only a maestro can claim

the bottom 1/2

ich du 5 iced dinhair muminim &

sleeved short cooled down aftereves

only a pracker knowd the grail

only a SAGA-d shooed the shoit

grapple onta livin

garpple inta notes.....

set 2

the vagueries of time

who knew who lived where were

always goes back to 1890s

sheriff street

a tenement w/out shame

this is less than before one could imagine

where is the past now

where is the past now if not

in the head?

or in some book

or map

all museums

all warehouses

whorehouses

windows of rearrangement

this is a story you can tell again &

again

the same way

only different everytime

the grey area of time where “once” is what it’s about

once i had this white cat

once i had this black dog

erratum continuous tom-tom z-rap

a message of of linels & sinews

any news

with even a touch of a touched up photograph/still

who was/who is

there to the end of christiandom

3 views from the same square

sphere is yes about a continuous line of blowing

rounds

or is it precise corners saught

atemplated shot

as if charted further

here you are slowing down to a star

you’ll never catch down to

can we embark in a trump-o-tazzle

or even invectors complete the whole deck

by throwing it over ?

the monkey who owned the property’s always

the one who flies

& it happens alot between gaps in the mind

& happens it seems around centuries turn.

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Steve Dalachinsky’s most recent books include The Final Nite & Other Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective Press), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse), Race Poems w/ Nathaniel Farrell (collages only) (Ugly Duckling Press), Trust Fund Babies (Pitchfork Press), and Poems for Laureamont (Furniture Press). His work is included in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His CDs include Incomplete Directions, I Thought It Was the End of the World and Pray for Me.

Other works on Sidebrow: cecil taylor trio @ castle clinton 7/29/04, cecil taylor - derek bailey duo @ tonic 5/3/00 & Category 5