cONNIE mae OLIVER
MILLIONS I
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MILLIONS VI
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Johannes named wagons in this guy. Bears appendages hooks like
in that short story about the moon how it used to graze the earth and because of gravity, I think, got all the earth’s shit on it. Leaving the party, J carries his glass to the portico and wavers in the hot night: What was it that I said? What did I just now say? Do I know nothing? Have I not known nothing? Not for nothing do I know things, not for anything do I know nothing. It’ll rain because you are loving blue ink bled all up on the paper cup because you have loved the golden retriever bitch that barks at everyone lets you pass in silence because you once loved hard to find the latch now hard to turn the key now. |
MILLIONS XI
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My mother says why do the people in movies
get to smash things and not us _________ ____ _____________ ____________ What am I always saying? I’m always saying it I stood in front of whitman and took a video and whitman, its destruction nigh came to me in 2013 w/ carpal tunnel in a Kia Sportage I remember searching for a space in Macys beauty and fragrance where I could hear my mother on the phone explaining milagros I wonder how many senses of the word there are for my own reference I walk a lot like everyone &walk very much I’ve been trying to say I walk very much in a different way by walking more My mother says she’s going to buy like 20 crystal champagne flutes at the thrift store and smash them like Melina Mercouri would like pull the table cloth out or sweep her arm across them and send them cascading When I was nine my father took me to the Y to play tennis and in the adjacent court a man instructed a class to do "American" push ups he said "like Americans do it" and I asked my father why he said America like that my father said he means the United States what about the rest of America I said and he said I don’t know At the language school I make a hypothetical timeline on the dry erase board to explain speculative speech about past events: born -------------------------------live----------------------------------------die if you’re here: born --------------------live--------------[O]-------------die and you want to speculate about here: born ---------[O]-------live-----------------------------die use a speculative clause + the present perfect. born -----------live--------------die The body a renal failure the bod the lawnmower man the body tells Google what to do at noon a man showed us with a small object a magic trick we said tell us how you did that he said a magician never reveals his secrets we said but tell us he said no can do. |
CONNIE MAE OLIVER lives in New York and is founding editor of FEELINGS, an online journal of poetry art and audio. Poems in this issue are from a chapbook titled COSMOS A PERSONAL VOYAGE BY CARL SAGAN ANN DRUYAN STEVEN SOTER AND ME (The Operating System, 2017). |