Without Articles

(aka Wikipoesis)

Tell this to your children: right now, go tell them

When river is full, fish will walk earth.

What happened here - light graffitied into being.

Stretch and yawn,

metaphorical, displaced and stumbling

over lungs.

around  ever-confessional remember-mouths,

a purple mass bloomed &  tongue becomes tourniquet,harp-hearted osteotome.

This underside of being.

This is snake eating snake eating snake eating its own tail.

Broseph, you  know this - what wounds enter unopposed.

Have I, hapless, told you of multiple origins?

This same thing inverted - e.g.

what you hear and what inheres.  

What keeps & what deigns be kept--

born continuous & borne besotted.  

Resorted to and breath-stealing beauty.  

You’re  bequest of gestes,

raining darkness into tight magic.

You’re baby teeth loosening,

you're small dead mouse in   beak of jay.

What comes to me is easy.

Thinking’s never not magical,

like   barest precipitate,

likening   once,   involute.

Form of forms as hot & dark

& imperfectly distributed.

This  re must be--pooling denseness.

Only blood’s translatable.  

If this could never not be,  n scant comfort.

Make and unmade, even selves cohere.

Some measure--  present at its punniest.  

  password is: Ileteveryonedown

That Thing you know now.

You think secrets are meant to be kept --

but no secret truly belongs to one person.

Dubious this, my sweetest pea.        

Gravid, I mean gravitas.

Swelled newness in you

when we dared not hope.

Allowances have been made.

Hums, loomed & varied, proximal.

  fuck you say—

half-roamed and roaming.

Staid & words-a-blinding,

unruly and taken up.

We swoon & are read,

take none such liberty.

With us, darkness, hi r & yon—sea-bound.

  world’s gone silver-pulsed,  stillborn.  

We knew ourselves or we thought we knew.

Something taken flight.

We outed ourselves out of ourselves.

Left from leaves. Divvied up.

Your sheltered light, gilt & limned,

Some simply are—O, whisper dark.

We would not unsee.

Flickered & gyred.

We stood beneath plums.

Surely, waylaid, surely casements.

I was caught unawares, flightless.

Your throat brook I’d soak in.  

O many-chambered grief.

O nautilus shell.

As heat burns, smoke blots out   sun.

Eir's Kindness—diaphanous.

Pivot, two-faced, twice this and what laden, lifts.

makes us lighter—clear water.

Lensing, taken measure.

O, what-must-have-been.

Guiding hands O, metamorph.

You were you, pure, strewn light.

Wrack us, but gently.

  sower knows what seeded.

O, cenotaph, waken   known thing.  

Forge nomen,   jade-eyed angle.  

Take measure, clear in any storm.

A glass bead   eye.

O, maelstrom, let  re be currents within us.

A swathing, limitless moment.

  soul’s slaked and cauled.

Bound what I know and what I hope.

Gravity’s too simple concept—swelling and briny.

Try pliant, omen.  

Foment our softened hearts.

Vessels & soundless.  

What did  y take you for?

We took you unashamed, we took you naming.

If we were wrong, fire

beckoned.

We were far from   water,mirror.

We saw ever and ever.

  mountains below, surfeit of significance.

&  re’s no shame in being discursive.

yr killin’ me.

Do I feel it – yes.

Ding’s too kindword. & dong— 

well, dong’s out too. So, dung,  n.

  sharpest retort persists.

This is   glass shard splintering.  

I did not think you’d come.

Avail yourself. Bide time.

Fickle-footed and childless,

heave me over.

Cliffs,   lake you fai d into being.

If this is all I’m allowed  n this is.

 re’s no takesy-backsies.

This is eternal, and   worst of it.

Steadied and resteadied.

Substrate and condensate.

Some initial perturbation—mannered & instinct.

To start’s to differentiate.

I never had your stamina, dread, or wasted sentiment.

Wikipoesis unfists   line, O, charming boy-girl.   trick is to watch without staring.

We took to each o r. Took time,took what offered itself, I recall. You, deep-veined. Me, unlettered.

&   storm came in quickly. O, TFW you unlike   brimming fanciful.  

Like, once our bodies knew what we’d become tangles of smoked-glass skin, stretched desire,

& weary, we slept   fever back & dreamt.

You didn’t what you couldn’t & I hated you for it.

&&&

Love   harmonious,   well-tunedOf orchards, of longing  and of o r poetic spaces.

I suppose chivalry’s dead. Knock knock.Who’s  re. Neologist. Neologist who?

Um… Unvoiced -nesses, -ides, and -ties. What’s a-positional, before and after? It’s putting   income in nincompoop!It’s answer   door well beforeYou understand   things we tell

Each o r in passages between.Has not that I’ve bestowed Call unto me song. Such sweetness

She said, I don’t do “unto.”Nei r tide nor tidal bore.

Call back what’s been undone.Call back what’s unpresented.

So stay distance. Stay becoming.  

Dare you to leave it   strength to improve.

A change,final change includes no authority.

Oh   unnecessaries of generation—

to harm or compare or associate.

Act so that  re is no use

incenter. Wide action is not

a width.”answer yields up.

  body’s politics more than souls --

I was not awake & I,

I was not unsurprised.

I’d heard   words darked-up

and, like I, exasperated.  

As if you’d been enough.

Fanfic’s always   best fic.

She called me   calm before   awesomeness.  

So I call her, in principle.

It was never my thing — change.

So I dare not, so I’d feign Black Betty,

that pretty poisson, those golden tassels--

O, those pumps and whispers.  Longing, as  y say,

& when we draft we compromise, we invite excess.

Hoping for more yet never not dreaming.

Finding our feet and stepping through rough.

We do what we must and we must never sleep.

Breaking new barriers and searching newgrounds.

Exploring ourselves and   unknowns of life,

Growing and changing as   world chooses.

Out on our own in   unexplored world;

Making so plain just how well we cope.

A newborn created, all concerned relieved;

More reasons to live now than just to brea

In and breath upon moment

  fine hairs on your forearm remember

Enjoying   battling ideal.

        meet me underground

        meet me where   nowhere

becomes place we understand to be our new home.

my new phone

blocks out   sound. blocks calls from your mo r and mine

mine heart mine letter mine own

tongue rendered rent

due north, due aparted

apartment in house with inglenooks with olive light fixtures

you and I staring into it

Is  re stillgod to claim home

Here

Half-cut, drinking milk under your arm,

counting my sins,

Pleading. And all   while   womb of eternity swells

Waiting to birthbright-star world

Where I becomes   We and eyes begin to see

Beyond this tiny now that aches with   beatings of time

Against   timelessness of all Creation

Like Butterfly being born

Again. . .and again. . .and again. . .

Afresh

I wish for once,   tap
on my shoulder would be enough
to set off   firework under my bed.  

Don’t say you wouldn’t do it too

If you had   chance to trace your lips in gold

Skimpy silk baths and rose candles casting light onto your skin

You’re not human anymore

I know you would

I reach deep into   heart of painting,

pull out its guts

ripping canvas and flesh,

always darkness

past whiteness

&&&

Have you not always?

Have you not rope and sail?

What may from wind and wrack?

A lens,   sky,path.

O, bough of our dis-ease.

Bringer of salt, every facet caul.  

What likens may yet be our undoing.

What undid   wave fills us with light.  

Tendence calls us back.

Silt lends depth to us.  

What tensing multiplies.  

  orchard reft of fruit.

As surely as stones cradle   bough.

As surely as   body left unbending.

 n utmost,  n waved, at least one.

At least   body’s salt. At least lichen. At least as souls tend salt-ward.

  lens-curved moon bends   tide.

What passes lacks me aright.

  start you took vexed measure.

Vexed portent and skin.

You and I contain   world.

We bed toward what’s final &

our hearts lit from within.

Allow me  se fictions.

Our doubting parts doubtless run.

And shadows fill our mouths.

What buds will taste heavy with need.

Be encrusted.

Be   depth from which   darkness comes.

So we must, partly and we,

deep as something unexpected is,

envy consequence. What brooks no rising star.

And what does not salt   wound cannot help but salt   wound.

Heat akin to density, buoyant as words.

Your bodysign.

Palm, wind, & fir.

So   earth parsels us out.

So   wind meted us out.

Did we miss   earth?

From every, this particular, this rest & all for naught.

Burning brands as plenty.

  answer stuns   lake,   possible bare-boned thing.

If sameness  n sameness touched with gold.

Iftome  n   too-broad sea.

Push of   sea.

We matter-stuffed, wedged into time’s mouth.

  dark start of   wave.   heedless substitute.

We are that which travels. That which shallows even love.

You found your way. Found your line.

We could true this.

How simple   spoken,   discrete.

As unconvinced as extent.

As we’re never not sight, not sleeplessly new.

  sound of any bird drags twine round our hearts.

None so heedless. None so crystal-still.

O dry stone wall of my heart,

sea-glass and what’s unforeseen.

Etchwell in me.

Swell no great sound.

For have you notriven breeze from death?

Scant summoning gives no words.

What trials, what questions spoke in sleepless tongues.

For o rs place us.

O, sought-ones, un-sow   stars.

  not-quite excess and   most worn.

This is not   way. This is no favor, no place and its undoing.

One maimed bears us dark-ward.

What surface goaded us.

I’ve heard that every infinite’s not   smallest infinite.

Distant as those stone walls.

As that fast ship.

  broken surface of pond

  silvered clouds. Catchless as   world tucked under.

  faint buzz of blood behind   eyes.

A hunger and   ruin,   sea bent to wind.

 n calling,  n stones and lush of silence.

Pearls and what might, or time and your ga ring mind.

To   see pale thing.

This too. As unlike as   palm.

Yes and what becomes us--thou monument, thou dream.

Hasten   dawn.woven fast.

Dream us lightened in   fragrant woods.

Weave us hopeful.

And if this comfort you,

I will be here when you wake.

  few moments, heart-cozening and querulous.

Faith, how   shores drown.

  many-hued sorcelled us.

A chorus drowns   shining star.

Holied, holy every lowing mass.

Divvied and hardened, we slip patterns alight.

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O, had we known what pulsed you here, O almost tasted What pulsed you here O, known and brought you nigh close What’s taken place and have you bro rs ere you many do your hearts beat as one. Pulse-bob pulse pulseecho sounded found for you, took measure wtaut  & your   tauted reached echo for you poured pulsed lined edges palped pulsed palsied pulsed heard hymn palped felt   tensed taut tensed porous porosity tensed   hymned edge hemmed it all  hymned edged all line-edged slip   line-edged this and what escapes. broke lines stunted our breath Edge membranous simpledit was not easier limned cloud and candle-flame. character all with sense candle-flame tended limned heart and flame every flame limned cloud and word candle flame with made missives of our hands missives of our limned made missives of our heil  nce lingered over dulled made missives of our eyes and throat. carved misses from looks cold missives fashioned missives from though missive-dark missive poured every face into you many limbed pulsed missives of every sort missives of all forms. flame-limned white porcelain ceramic bone missives we vessels of flame-limned vessels what lingers blinds shoal   hold  at held   past beyonded what current washes over us.What lingers. freighted what veil hangs between us lingered, swallowed tears. De-vesseled Dearest, in my mind she is not alone What current washes you Are you alone? or ? are  y bound to us as you are. limned all with sense we, ember-lidded and dull—you shone-through, limned us linger vesselsand laden with that to what currents laden with of umber Linger.  umber vesseled andfull-throated we came lingered among you   wan leaves left leavened  current enraptured thus, full-throated I am full to bursting solaced from filled with you filled to brsting flame-limned took solaced solaced all ember-lidded   sky, ember-lidded,   lake rim o rs what are cloads where you are ar  re clouds, what precipitate. dearest,   mulls fear, light-blind  so answer us—what host of you how many is  re ano r mull ids limned-over eyes, candle-flame. candle-flame, how many, wan damps ideal disembodied disemb limned polished glss  candle flame limns   eye. faced fan polished glass damp and listless or ember-lidded how many pairs of eyes how many multitude how many of shards  your polished eyes shard and are  re o rs are you alone chocked full of  where are   o r and are  re more o rers polished bit of glass for eyes are  re o rs what calls  o rswhat name amen what amenspolished shone polished bits of wax, are  re o rs  rerote missive knowing back of   eyes, rote ends of rote ends of song, lineamens. candle-flame, gave what poisoned usname. gazed opened bent bended abended bent to us we were  stayed bastion enraptured told thused rote &stony-limbed. missives dismantled & full Made full with tears. made full by hymnal limned limned hymned rough rough ache of matrixed farrow choke-stone,  tightens limned missed limned wound wisped whispers rough missives stony-limbed.   one whispers tied noted to birdswe, carveflingered thin over long, missive took queried of lingered rote missive one wrote rote dridded   barest bare sparse spare  we & once filled to drint d stood fantod hand madewe, full watchedcrow-  wan damp stain flame on   back of   eye. led back of   eye. all that haloed ache & falls thrown listless to   air thrown bound wholeness reversed whence and whence coronal flame-stayed scarred retina of aching breast might mou d candle-flame shifting changing varied   sound sounds crows   we poured candle-flame halo retinal blob d us sound out still what could have been For you and for what’s left behind.  Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo ofcandle’s flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo ofcandle’s flame, purple echo ofcandle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you  You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung outwe were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown flowed what sywhat breathing does soft what soft, breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but   smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you hwat have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We’d deserve deserved Deserved Collapse Forched forched Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you  nce. What heat solve caught me up stone caught up stuck caught in   throat I am bonr in   dissolution of    everything we could say chyrstalined quartzed what our hands.  you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you &    re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged   lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs  we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, whatwe’d scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry faror sight unseen.  what delays  ewhat membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts  e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here  what sparked what clumped what envenoped s e what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been.  Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into-  joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward   crowd edge-of-  void. You were, as much as we could bear.  As much as we could bear. & were you here, yet . voidWe yessed What void-gift gift and more gifted given gifted-one. Thou O, void-kept Thou, thousand-faced child. ness spite spote spate-heavy wing wung wrung rung thou—doubled-one edge-of-all-things, doubled-one we are borne unto bear us forar bear us ight harry us born We gave much and  n more. This too. We gave much &  n more.show that what makes  word break how bokeHow is that founded Condrial condone fhas been of all my mito-  c ondrial born-to-me gnomen call. Seek plum harry carry . Come to   edge edge me sedge scuttle-slose born to meKeepest dobling born born  . void-rendering torn tear O void tendering rendering thou void-thou tendered thou   we had.  fleet you would not do not despair voided O void- we arced every        looked bear up bear up borne unto bunred freighted bore bowed bowed arced beard to bear bore   what do we give, what haven’t we done ablutions O causal cauterized soured blighted bli ly went. went sour what thisTook whatever came our way, praised it tuned it over Restless, Bided & restless, we praised whatever came our way—no more. marked eternal forever’s fleetest even pain,   only. Eternal thing. hoped being shapeless however indistinct For this,      wai,  dazed, took what pooled around us.  given, though pooled lurched lurching   Bit clenched   hand and Defied every thing. We tied ribbons Though we tied hurling Stillness, yourbir d Bi d Fit to be tied Notness knotness tied  made made fleshed darkling, you your voice, why revenant brixt bised brised kissed and broken. Darkling, mottles scuttles. Dearth dearest full circle. harbinger,darkling,pool  Ispooling pooling, expansive Pool, expansive heretofor. ing in my ear expansive    dark pool of your voice.  Your voice, pooling .  part current pools Out voices tied knots   time our voices stitched.   Dearest, Wouldpath, would  path’s less clear   path lad cler, thorn and gauze. Interminable   swifting  Cool   pool green Diaphanous. Harkening Ahrkening Tried and again, retied.   knots bough our voices stitched knots too   bearing bough your voice stitched in me.  meant ded what whoughths cannot meded comes to us unmedned torn tear comes to this unmended sticeh voice-stitch voicestictch fraught heavy   What’s possible Saw  n sawn so  n,   diaphanous gauzy and smooth. Smooth progress so   deepening pond,   sping thaw.   rsh of river tidal rish rise Brise breeze brush aside Unsullied Dearest,moment. aside. All-in-all. Muddied -all. beyonder , breast-beatingly   lunged Boasted bested beyond all things. Pulmonripened. brined-over shore, deft tufted Stay true. once and twice lodestone,    brine-star what celestial, sunk toward   sea dimmed sunken dmmed-up bulwark   harried  for  thousand-year, under rrests   breth   sap        pause husked molted  molting    molt-of mine.   leaving molt remnant night-soil calling out part leaving mantled and dismantled spake thy moistened lip. curdled milk milkskin endings numerous moldy sallow flap of skin  tallow sallow choice fickle bunged up fickle plunge furrow fickle alpenglow elemental webbed filament thorough sawn sawed over under fawn dappled filament tough thorough &  n some. systole.   peach, overripe.   overripe too ripe stem too   fleshy overripe   swerater breast grimace pucker gripe fat word flabby words too-much overripe encumbering sawn   hewn cumbered encumbering. unnumbered. Encumbering. dawnings past echo-voiced to voice spit hav dawnings un numerable.an echo   aching hands. Voices like dawning unnumbered. Unbeknownst  bloodbent voicesong furrows furrowed furrows, until til and smoky sky. make it depth. signify—make it bitter almond, Saw   sun starled into being. Sorne seen watchTaken up Dearest, we swoon & are brea d Read, we swoon & are to be Read, we take none such liberty Dearest,  with us. to darkness. thi r hi r & yon. sea-bound. Blown be padarkness.  blankness stilled and held—remain beholden.   world’s as st bliver      parsed   sky & worded and reworded it. All douse past, We do not end here. This cannot be   end. Your pulsed as pulsed   stillborn word.  Dearest, we knew ourselves  n or, we thought we knew. Something has takenflight. But we cannot be itus. so we outed ourselves. out of ourselves. parsed out of ourselves.  so too   stillborn word. of onced wondered underside of grief,        b   .  Systoles.  O, grief, you pulsing.  re is nothing that is notpulsing. Hearted, Pulsed, we  O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves.   left from leaves as parted simplest.  Leaves,   sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leasves ll’s  As Parted like bread.   un-kind. Unkindness  kinned  From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you ano r Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt &what’s simplest—you you guilded oursgilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divvied yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. Palmed over handed over or one is different parsed palmed parceled were’s   thrush of ever in your chest. in every chest. still & stilled threshing thresholdopen door its whisper dark its portend Could  y   O, whisper dark unsee it’s whisper-dark  could  y   whispering dark. whisper touch light as dark whisper touch   quake whisper   flicker-song whisper  What would  y not unsee.  Flicker   fluttering heart would not unsee. Heart flutter flicker Was it? It was.flutter we would not unsee.flicker,   flutter Flicker song loss mica Would  y fathom Have to wait Gyre. Circumlocution would  y understand we stood beneath blinkered plums are. Surely Staid Waylaid Divagation divers Casements. What part of you fell away what part  quietexhaledWhat part of me expired. died.passing-through, aimless as bird-song.  Only   whole of you.I was caught unawares. Mislaid Flightless I was Excuses, Your brook Throat I’d I have not spoke of trees of that tree we lay beneath. We were happy  n. We were boundless— were breath. Dearest, only you Only   whole of you and all of you—only  , bodywhat have you made  re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell   future writ beneath which of tree densifytrough thou you and youwe andonce,n after one to ano r. extenuate   circumstance. was  remoment.  re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sigsn  re’sno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through  O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O natuilaus shell, of Go, go and went to   sea shore, took up   handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief.  re is always ano r rroom how many room s does grief hold /Nautiluas sheel teech though  thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chmbered greif. How is  re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tonr, All that torn as one tends   one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out   sun. Burnt offering both call and block out   sun. As sure as Pends pendant weigh Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But But ei r’s  isterrible kindness. For knowing’s unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as  re Once You This offering, this cold toldyouwatched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we  ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb  Drowning’seasier way Heat We walked   mica-flecked path, of all thingsflecked,   mica-flecked path, heat and  apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack .  Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What good’sdowser at sea. cannot dowse   sea. Dowse   sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning’s makes us lighter in and throughoffering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not befts that one breaths it. thisdowsing, thiswater all   way dowsing’s as old as anything. drowing dowsing swum Toodowser, toosoul, wracked into being. drowningthrough , alight lensed and measured. te red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms ou what form’s incline  re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of   lclear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What fomr lifgt strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not think back brfore love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently.   sower knows   furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumesower. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible nownsWhat stirs. What tears across   sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen gnomen Whose sight crowds out brain whos lens  What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose  te red her whose connectedWho has insight Future peeps  Take position fromyou, take measure. O wrackersLet this bekindness. swelled to   brink.   future swelled us to   brink And you  lensed Frensel-lensed, clear in any storm  again all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stonea mote,glass bead in   eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in   damp earth eye white Any port instorm   drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grsab you likestrng fromstreammote spekck of dust What are you to o rs  O death-mark, , to o rs. —  future exists in us alwaysdone-in, time-swelled,  re-not- re. , tossed, around us.        Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let  re be  Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitlesscan e find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away.  re-not- re. and re. Drifted   underside of loss   underside requirespivo tLoosened from   world   ties that bound us ever so slightened Ours and ours alone.  made and unmade selves—

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When  y came i sat naked in   lea r sofa withtall glass of vodka.   children were in   bathroom or   kitchen. Afterwards i smokedcigarette on   balcony. i was free.

Though even  re everything around me had vanished;

a cement floor, paint-flecked walls and ceiling,

tiny scraps of paper

than conflate nothing solid -1Never ending deferral – what’s at stake – what indeed.

You’re likely irked. I get it. Metaphor’s baeand all that. bae. Unedning putting off deferral. By now, you’re likely irked. You may beirked.You’re likely irked. One, unending I know – show-don’t-tell, but speech is bae. What I’m showing’s unknown to me. Reader, I know. Insight is bae, but I’ve got none. Some unaltered source. Original is bae.  Insight is bae. Images are bae. What insight sets this right? What origin’s sufficient?  re is no knowing that would set this right.    low sunTwixt-ways.    source is Cuz explanation underwhelms. Precudes effaces Real talk—Here’s   thing. Explanation underwhelms. That’s just Here’s   long and short of it. Motivation

Explanation underwhelms. What motivates   source is never whelmig underwhelms

  low light of winter through   window,   low light of– what What motivates underwhelms. – pale winter light. Underwhelms

 re can be no respite.   sun, low in   sky, shines ast   itchen table. low-sun enough of this – winter light This hand, this wrungout face

This handow window winginf wringing   this holding salt Orpheus lot gets     demands isperse disowns  belies bellows As source and recompense   imageless reader, one setsheart before  one/ce  begets   whence from bereft begets pends begets all sense but one.   wehcne maigns & what I said I said & did maligns—   source begets whence it issues. begets its whence as both ways past and future us.  Forewent.

& when I said I said and did,   one were   dark path, reader,     full extent of our undoing. gone  n we’re done. well,  n we’re unmoored.  

What am I but those things I said I said & did—

Do I not. Unbeen. Notted. Unbedone

 m’s two-faced.well, we’ll n  I’s unmoored  

all disjoint  undone skint. unhinged. Come skinted out Scanted. Disjoint dis  undid pastered pasted made past pasterized simpled based debased.

unthinged. Unhinged. But unmoored. consequentless demooredtwo-faced.  Denuded Me when I was not. What I was when I was not yet.  Stood in for me while I was in   past. So-called cuz when’swhat-function. Time’sthing in space. distance. Spark or   small ring of my drink on   table. well, we’ll scant have stood for much.  spils out cvers so-covered for   way   Like, literally—like,   so- like,   so. Feckless Thought-less in its So,

literally is bae   lestness done-ness       greeted run both ways     best poem ever or best. poem. ever.

Cuz, what I’ve said & did’s two-faced. what those things you said you’ll love so much

What’s been and been and been. Reader, couldn’t not’ve & were, but both ways. Forward and backward.glance moves what was an.fig’s as good as God. been anything else. too unto yousign signs move both ways what signifies moves backward always both ways secrets flow both ways holddie in your hand and you know what I’m talking about. It could not be anything but. Glancing thi r and yon. When I say I UnWork both ways read decode   past hacked   events Too seeded ThricedReader, this is just to say,  overdetermined overed ofted works both ways cuts janus-faced spills out Undone won signgled out signed out

Want on   one you figs and  Thrice-cursed blessed,  and   o r. Blessed   o r case you in case   what  significant   ths is   break this si   rethinking sized up

Tundered tindered tossed to and fro   consequences remain TBD. Cuz reader,

no regerts    one you knows and   one you

janus-glanced Cuz that’s that that   consequences TBD though what consequesces   conse

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Pulsed Dearest, linger.  We’ve seen what oar,knot, what edges   world -of-us & where we end  as pulse is justdivert embraces us. edge of us. — so linger    ing  you spoken   Shade Knot yourself to us as we would have you .knotted-up with shadows  spoke shadows full. ness. full.Naught  O shadow flesh ness.    took veiled shadow to flesh shadow to flesh felled voluptuous voliminous lined to fullness filed amented conceptual filamented. connected stretched filament filled out all to double ness. lined shadowed edged out to fullness doubled   blank of all things. pulsed doubl& yet put scant shadowed   stuff leaf with imbued edged ever flax fibers push cattails to   air, cattail fluff   sk kiss cattail fluff stuff out flung spilt out slipped to pulsed each and every wordoars hymn. we wrung ourselves out of ourselves—What pulsed you ere night nigh to us. O, had we known what pulsed you here, O almost tasted What pulsed you here O, known and brought you nigh close What’s taken place and have you bro rs ere you many do your hearts beat as one. Pulse-bob pulse pulseecho sounded found for you, took measure wtaut  & your   tauted reached echo for you poured pulsed lined edges palped pulsed palsied pulsed heard hymn palped felt   tensed taut tensed porous porosity tensed   hymned edge hemmed it all  hymned edged all line-edged slip   line-edged this and what escapes. broke lines stunted our breath Edge membranous simpledit was not easier limned cloud and candle-flame. character all with sense candle-flame tended limned heart and flame every flame limned cloud and word candle flame with made missives of our hands missives of our limned made missives of our heil  nce lingered over dulled made missives of our eyes and throat. carved misses from looks cold missives fashioned missives from though missive-dark missive poured every face into you many limbed pulsed missives of every sort missives of all forms. flame-limned white porcelain ceramic bone missives we vessels of flame-limned vessels what lingers blinds shoal   hold  at held   past beyonded what current washes over us.What lingers. freighted what veil hangs between us lingered, swallowed tears. De-vesseled Dearest, in my mind she is not alone What current washes you Are you alone? or ? are  y bound to us as you are. limned all with sense we, ember-lidded and dull—you shone-through, limned us linger vesselsand laden with that to what currents laden with of umber Linger.  umber vesseled andfull-throated we came lingered among you   wan leaves left leavened  current enraptured thus, full-throated I am full to bursting solaced from filled with you filled to brsting flame-limned took solaced solaced all ember-lidded   sky, ember-lidded,   lake rim o rs what are cloads where you are ar  re clouds, what precipitate. dearest,   mulls fear, light-blind  so answer us—what host of you how many is  re ano r mull ids limned-over eyes, candle-flame. candle-flame, how many, wan damps ideal disembodied disemb limned polished glss  candle flame limns   eye. faced fan polished glass damp and listless or ember-lidded how many pairs of eyes how many multitude how many of shards  your polished eyes shard and are  re o rs are you alone chocked full of  where are   o r and are  re more o rers polished bit of glass for eyes are  re o rs what calls  o rswhat name amen what amenspolished shone polished bits of wax, are  re o rs  rerote missive knowing back of   eyes, rote ends of rote ends of song, lineamens. candle-flame, gave what poisoned usname. gazed opened bent bended abended bent to us we were  stayed bastion enraptured told thused rote &stony-limbed. missives dismantled & full Made full with tears. made full by hymnal limned limned hymned rough rough ache of matrixed farrow choke-stone,  tightens limned missed limned wound wisped whispers rough missives stony-limbed.   one whispers tied noted to birdswe, carveflingered thin over long, missive took queried of lingered rote missive one wrote rote dridded   barest bare sparse spare  we & once filled to drint d stood fantod hand madewe, full watchedcrow-  wan damp stain flame on   back of   eye. led back of   eye. all that haloed ache & falls thrown listless to   air thrown bound wholeness reversed whence and whence coronal flame-stayed scarred retina of aching breast might mou d candle-flame shifting changing varied   sound sounds crows   we poured candle-flame halo retinal blob d us sound out still what could have been For you and for what’s left behind.  Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo ofcandle’s flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo ofcandle’s flame, purple echo ofcandle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you  You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung outwe were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown flowed what sywhat breathing does soft what soft, breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but   smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you hwat have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We’d deserve deserved Deserved Collapse Forched forched Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you  nce. What heat solve caught me up stone caught up stuck caught in   throat I am bonr in   dissolution of    everything we could say chyrstalined quartzed what our hands.  you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you &    re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged   lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs  we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, whatwe’d scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry faror sight unseen.  what delays  ewhat membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts  e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here  what sparked what clumped what envenoped s e what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been.  Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into-  joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward   crowd edge-of-  void. You were, as much as we could bear.  As much as we could bear. & were you here, yet . voidWe yessed What void-gift gift and more gifted given gifted-one. Thou O, void-kept Thou, thousand-faced child. ness spite spote spate-heavy wing wung wrung rung thou—doubled-one edge-of-all-things, doubled-one we are borne unto bear us forar bear us ight harry us born We gave much and  n more. This too. We gave much &  n more.show that what makes  word break how bokeHow is that founded Condrial condone fhas been of all my mito-  c ondrial born-to-me gnomen call. Seek plum harry carry . 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We tied ribbons Though we tied hurling Stillness, yourbir d Bi d Fit to be tied Notness knotness tied  made made fleshed darkling, you your voice, why revenant brixt bised brised kissed and broken. Darkling, mottles scuttles. Dearth dearest full circle. harbinger,darkling,pool  Ispooling pooling, expansive Pool, expansive heretofor. ing in my ear expansive    dark pool of your voice.  Your voice, pooling .  part current pools Out voices tied knots   time our voices stitched.   Dearest, Wouldpath, would  path’s less clear   path lad cler, thorn and gauze. Interminable   swifting  Cool   pool green Diaphanous. Harkening Ahrkening Tried and again, retied.   knots bough our voices stitched knots too   bearing bough your voice stitched in me.  meant ded what whoughths cannot meded comes to us unmedned torn tear comes to this unmended sticeh voice-stitch voicestictch fraught heavy   What’s possible Saw  n sawn so  n,   diaphanous gauzy and smooth. Smooth progress so   deepening pond,   sping thaw.   rsh of river tidal rish rise Brise breeze brush aside Unsullied Dearest,moment. aside. All-in-all. Muddied -all. beyonder , breast-beatingly   lunged Boasted bested beyond all things. Pulmonripened. brined-over shore, deft tufted Stay true. once and twice lodestone,    brine-star what celestial, sunk toward   sea dimmed sunken dmmed-up bulwark   harried  for  thousand-year, under rrests   breth   sap    pause husked molted  molting    molt-of mine.   leaving molt remnant night-soil calling out part leaving mantled and dismantled spake thy moistened lip. curdled milk milkskin endings numerous moldy sallow flap of skin  tallow sallow choice fickle bunged up fickle plunge furrow fickle alpenglow elemental webbed filament thorough sawn sawed over under fawn dappled filament tough thorough &  n some. systole.   peach, overripe.   overripe too ripe stem too   fleshy overripe   swerater breast grimace pucker gripe fat word flabby words too-much overripe encumbering sawn   hewn cumbered encumbering. unnumbered. Encumbering. dawnings past echo-voiced to voice spit hav dawnings un numerable.an echo   aching hands. Voices like dawning unnumbered. Unbeknownst  bloodbent voicesong furrows furrowed furrows, until til and smoky sky. make it depth. signify—make it bitter almond, Saw   sun starled into being. Sorne seen watchTaken up Dearest, we swoon & are brea d Read, we swoon & are to be Read, we take none such liberty Dearest,  with us. to darkness. thi r hi r & yon. sea-bound. Blown be padarkness.  blankness stilled and held—remain beholden.   world’s as st bliver      parsed   sky & worded and reworded it. All douse past, We do not end here. This cannot be   end. Your pulsed as pulsed   stillborn word.  Dearest, we knew ourselves  n or, we thought we knew. Something has takenflight. But we cannot be itus. so we outed ourselves. out of ourselves. parsed out of ourselves.  so too   stillborn word. of onced wondered underside of grief,        b   .  Systoles.  O, grief, you pulsing.  re is nothing that is notpulsing. Hearted, Pulsed, we  O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves.   left from leaves as parted simplest.  Leaves,   sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leasves ll’s  As Parted like bread.   un-kind. Unkindness  kinned  From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you ano r Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt &what’s simplest—you you guilded oursgilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divvied yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. 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We were boundless— were breath. Dearest, only you Only   whole of you and all of you—only  , bodywhat have you made  re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell   future writ beneath which of tree densifytrough thou you and youwe andonce,n after one to ano r. extenuate   circumstance. was  remoment.  re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sigsn  re’sno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through  O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O natuilaus shell, of Go, go and went to   sea shore, took up   handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief.  re is always ano r rroom how many room s does grief hold /Nautiluas sheel teech though  thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chmbered greif. How is  re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tonr, All that torn as one tends   one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out   sun. Burnt offering both call and block out   sun. As sure as Pends pendant weigh Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But But ei r’s  isterrible kindness. For knowing’s unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as  re Once You This offering, this cold toldyouwatched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we  ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb  Drowning’seasier way Heat We walked   mica-flecked path, of all thingsflecked,   mica-flecked path, heat and  apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack .  Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What good’sdowser at sea. cannot dowse   sea. Dowse   sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning’s makes us lighter in and throughoffering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not befts that one breaths it. thisdowsing, thiswater all   way dowsing’s as old as anything. drowing dowsing swum Toodowser, toosoul, wracked into being. drowningthrough , alight lensed and measured. te red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms ou what form’s incline  re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of   lclear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What fomr lifgt strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not think back brfore love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently.   sower knows   furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumesower. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible nownsWhat stirs. What tears across   sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen gnomen Whose sight crowds out brain whos lens  What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose  te red her whose connectedWho has insight Future peeps  Take position fromyou, take measure. O wrackersLet this bekindness. swelled to   brink.   future swelled us to   brink And you  lensed Frensel-lensed, clear in any storm  again all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stonea mote,glass bead in   eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in   damp earth eye white Any port instorm   drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grsab you likestrng fromstreammote spekck of dust What are you to o rs  O death-mark, , to o rs. —  future exists in us alwaysdone-in, time-swelled,  re-not- re. , tossed, around us.        Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let  re be  Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitlesscan e find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away.  re-not- re. and re. Drifted   underside of loss   underside requirespivo tLoosened from   world   ties that bound us ever so slightened Ours and ours alone.  made and unmade selves—

If all’s new.cross roads, if you will – can’t have one without   o r. What I regret and what I stood for Reader, no regerts. have often if we’re often cross that off have untonew double’s   negativemodeling of   new in & if all’s new, well, we’ll,  Unspeaks unspoken. Double   negative. To find   unsung I won’t not look to you. We’re see about that. Not have stood for much Scant have stood for much   scnat have stood for much.

I’ll say it plain - I can’t not look to you.  Lacks host power ghost power. TBD

If this is what it is to stan for, well, volition. I’ll stan for volition’s TBD.

I’m all in.  Make clichés happen. Shipped and re-shippped to I ship cliché.

I’m all in. You know I stan for clichés. Such power figurative. I stan for figurative language.  Clichés as time machine. Atemporal  I stan for clichés. Is  re suchthing as clichéd into being. Unconvinced convincingly Clichéd into being. Doth protest. Whi r untilled Speaking of waters.  re’s nothing that’s not See how easy that was. Ntilled untilled. Beginnings renew and known good and known newn own shorn yoon yew Lasting stainescape now I can talk about wor ss shit with like monstrous This  

Bridges, numberless &   water below. Lee-edge lee-ward and warding tonally broseph.

See how that works? I assert,      Effaced. Traceless to stan for  scant for cause.

What’s done is done but   water under thousands of bridges numberless scant  

—remember? And whi r

distaff of or concerning. [Yes, this is one of those poems.] Reader,

clean slates & new leaves—metaphor galore.  

So let’s do this, ‘cuz this excuses everything.

& this excuses everything-time I said    

you had bad taste.

& when I fumbled   First of all, I really dig beginnings.

when said why bringchild into suchworld I [We’ll see where this goes. We’re in this toge r.] you should know this. You know this.

You should know this.   clean slate - derivative. Extremis  OG sense –

I am opposed to most organs. Original sense. properly.   convex surface of   body of persons and vertebrated animals I said and I said and I said, When I said you have bad taste.

which is adjacent to   spinal axis, and opposite to   belly and most of   special organs. It extends from   neck and shoulders to   extremity of   backbone. back and side: all over, completely

  rest unasked, as wonder, as unbidden. rest bidden. untroubled.  Be more be  Both all Stund- Calmed and Stay, calm and untroubled. Be untroubled, be wonder  asic askt ast fasted ummed

Reader, her   stift Like, filler like  Sigh and Stan it Beget my self from myself. O, sum-it-unto   I’ll thorn-it-unto, thorn it wrestlingly. Beget from I to myself. Wontingly Th’impossibles’s ashed-over and wantless. Bee-thorn bethorned gethorned? Th’impossible’s told and wantless.  Th’impossible’s at least at once as wont  Are you ready for love? Read this sonnet to find out. Begws eggs

All’s well or something /but/ & be stranger.  re are impossibilities at stake.  possible ebbed stranger. impossible. Know that metaphor’s impossible. BY DEFINITION. Don’t ask for metaphor. What do you stan for? Impossible’smetaphor. Metaphor’s impossible and Impossibility is metaphoric. What’s impossible’s metaphoric and remains so. Unearned

  tongue of   start of   ash of   edge of   Reader, metaphoric impossibilities.

  touch of   sound of her voice. Ready for love? Write sonnet and find out.   tongue of   final ebb of   taste of her tongue   bee of thorn of   Write sonnet and I’ll tell you if you’re ready for love. her skin and   stovened   light of   skin of   hum of   hum of her skin  beneath Write sonnet and we’ll tell if you if you’re ready for love. Ready for love? Write Sonnet to find out. IMHO. Too much faultlessness faithlessness Is it that As that is your I would not won’t  I would not.  re is no respite. Ashed

Idk Mouth-torn ripped from ripened from  re is no respte. hood, that sadness that does not. O sadness do not stop. Ebbless binged unsurfaced. tongue-tied and marged Might could. Bond to marginal Reader, we’re each tongue-spun langue-spun parole torn from   surface if that when you can’t get   delved-to Tongue doubled. What delves bodies    lip of separation. Edge   seas and  it marked one singled. Unstarted. Started. Startled. Language singles as we’re hearth-born. Two’d into being.  Tonguing delved. Tongued to beong   leading edge of   tear that is your mouth. Of your mouth. Mouthing tongued to being.   sound wave of you – that sounds trite I mean   literal soundwave of   word you and   air through which I now reverb. Month-borne. Mouth-borne. Long eee. Ones  me into   world twos me. Manifolded. Doubles   entirety of existence. Doubled. Ever-startled. Ever Started as beginning.  So started.   lip oftear. Untold Pick poetic form and I’ll tell you where you’ll get married.

Design Handbag and we’ll tell you what poet you are.

Pick your favorite sonnetwe’ll tell you if you’re ready to be loved.

Pick your favorite sonnetwe’ll tell you if you deserved to be loved.

Ready for love? Check out  se sonnets to find out.

Tell me if you ike  se poems and find out if you’ ready for love.

Pick your favorite poem and see if you’ll ever fall in love.

Will you fall in love? Pick your favorite poetic form to find o. Cuz mix cauz mélange. Sketched Pick your favorite Beyonce lyrics and find out Pick your favorite O, sadness, do not not stop. Hearth-borne something, anything   Take this g

tell me designhouse and I tell you I love you.

Trebled Reader, nothing’s faultless, and so, doubled. Faulted. As took and gift both stumble, trouble is as sodden   as doubled, trebled. What’s Took and gifted. Took and given gifted      

What’s both took and gifted. Doubled, trebled. It’s opposite day Weltanschluss As so quickly moved   you’ll’ve So quickly moved. If only I’d’ve, I’ll’ve  seen since and sense

Lineaments and you’ll’ve untoIf only. Senescent, old maybe? Sense-making and whatmore

It’ll’ve been.on.range of strategies. No shortage of hyperbole hyper-bowl.

Oneto won two and one to less so  sketch what’s not.

Can anything trans be. Precipitous sudden shifts in style and register.  Is  retransmission of such.. high and low, standard and less so.     violence of curbs.

Where to go from hyperbole. Pronounced hyper bowl.   I think lips contour my death

I’ve died when I stop speaking. Am I,     language contour of my being gone.

I find not.   disappointment that I will not hear after death. Becomesod. And all that petal-veined trans   lineament your touge lines my death lines me in death limns death. Tongue limns death.  Where to go where to go. Whereda go whereda go  teesdees. Shift and recompense.

What Such sorrow. No such sorrow. No such. Whereda where to

 . Wild linguistic vacillation. Sudden tonal shifts. Slang and gonna get worse before it gets better.

Anger,. Boredom unabated, barely mitigated. Might could.

Probably boredom unabated. Break brachial, as in eukayote and galaxcies blah blah blah

I don’t know what to say but I’ll say it:possible motto. Like zoological but not so

where I scribbled days into mindless dreams

of   woman who married ano r man,

of rumors in   night and this stale, tiredness

ga red at my eyes.  Mary gives me hope.

Imprinted on my computer

During my last trip-up

Liked  ir fur and  ir weird vertex assholes

I liked nature askid

This was of course in   80’s

Anyways, every day you learn something new

If only this could not have been cuz

of spite if only for winnows.threat

Spite for spurt’s sake — raucous…

Untouched leaves of spiteful flail.  

Saxon-like,  re’s hope yet.

Concessession concede. How’s that for concise.

I am, but nevermind. Mine, awry mine, mine dream-boat  

another time, so can you not, Nah.

  world—a cocoon.   scattered dissonance of our bodies—

  larva turning to goo. Let us discard our mandibles

for better wings. Let us spread ourselves wide like   iris

Of raven. Let us charge into ourselves with animal courage—

dance now for yourself. Sing now for yourself.   world spins

like silk—bloom now for yourself.

Whatever this is has not been

Avowed drosser. What’s this’ what is this is not. This Blunder

Dross   drossiest  river dream thirlling trill

underside of dross unceasingly. Senselessly.

Dross   drossiest underside of dross.

Dross as  what was this before and how  befits this, your ass-face.

Aassface  this has not been  What wasn’t could not hold Has this been Could this not be Could—

Will, like white boy metaphorical fires, will.

Ruing underside of this commitment.

Unpaced & sully it good.

Unceasingly sully

I will dross by doing, dross whatever   drossed like what undivented

were’d it were’t as gesture false

‘cuz you are with me here

even   undeniable even blundering

grapes lees dregs

droozy blunderings drossy is gummy

as only fires will do kept close

wept metaphizzicle drossy

Oracular fires and eschatological tears.

But whatontological blunder.

It’sfull stop.

&&&

Clarity and certainty inapt.

Certain ofturn.

Suplant Suffice supplicant mine eyes

This’ll go awry.

Preclude, even.

Can. You. What’s final & o rwise?

& is this   place to get what I’m looking for? (asking forfriend)

What’s inappropriate? Do I indign? So be it. / Do I intone? Take what’s set before us. // Falsity. Continuance.

Sundry’s finality tis sundry an’s sundry.

We take what set before us. So what’s now. In reverse. Refocus

Topsy-turvy. What now what’s all flat particulars.

Could you rehash does and re-does.

All-flattening nothing in particular.

A taking-stock, if you will.

A bright thing at   edge of our vision.

Myopic generalizable. Whe rheld bright thing.

We’re uncertain and disputed.

I hope hope evens out.

However   examples cited are interpreted.

Uncertain and disputed.

I savedworm today.

He didn’t try to get away. He wri d my finger on segments no less grim

His worm brain sensed medieval sin:

Dry skin upon his wet skin.

Both only dead and grey in   end.

Today is   day - I declare him to be my friend.

Bleary from sleep and warm water

and no glasses, I spotuncertain comma

crawling on my shower’s corner—

not so unmaggotesque, burrowing

an arabesque of language into   wall.

I don’t know how he got in here—

as naked and damp and holy,

as   day he was conceived.

Listen to him and   o r weak knees

of my offspring as  y drown in ponds,

gurgle in   trickling streams that scar

  worn-gray map of my brain.

A wheeze,boil, and pop of liquid—

thriving is onlybrain undone,
Splattered upon   storm cellar’s door.

Once upontime,

Yet far from ages ago

A man coughs.

He has   world stuck in his throat.
A woman spits
and   world spins freely.

  depressives all are inline

all toge r finally up out of bed and inline.

  depressives find lines quite useful

especially parallel ones.

Couplets are notable forms in poems,

because  y form parallel lines which do not cross.

Sometimes I am readingstupid poem,

usuallystupid poem written by me but not always,

and wish it would just give up   formality.

Formalities are for fruits.

I am under no particular obligation to look appetizing.

Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll turn   lamp on when I feel like it.

I’ll wake my internal colony of fish up when someone tells me

what this damn bead in my stomach has been all my life.

Maybe it’sdifferent type of hunger than lacking food.

Maybe all forms of hunger live in   chest.

Dry mou d, we cross   shaggy tundra

swim   dark sea of city streets

  forest of stars

blue-black skied suburbs,

calling out for what is left for us.

Inspired by televised sensations

we dive into   syntax

rip open words of news

reading into what is given

waiting for promised returns.

Maybe we need to redirect our sexual
energies. Eat better. Sleep harder, alone.

Sexual energy needs to be converted to

Spiritual energy and that is   goal of life.

&&&

Right now my hands bleed from pounding

  ceiling

Of   neighbors who never seem to sleep

Just shout, and break things.

In   sun, for some reason

 y look happy.

Fighting against

• SHADOWS

protecting myself

from black and white cultures

flowering feelings  

• day by day  

I swan into being

And this never would have happened
But for   loss of   Bundersnooper’s
Fea r, having shielded   mundletwits.

Goals? Subterfuge and sublimations.

Goals...world peace, sex in graveyards, heros openly

Hating  mselves.

Isolation cells and homo-erotic mutterings after needle fat with heroin.

Priests whispering while violating dogs in alleys stained with ink blots.

Swim trunks slip from skinny hips.

Eating love wrapped in good thoughts termed bad.

Who are you?

Goals....black angels laughing at preachers spilling  mselves from arm chairs.

 re is whiskey in   coffee and magic in   television screen spirals.

  want is intestines cut fresh and grilled on open flame underblack flag.

Goals and wayward meditations on red rocks with liberal sensibilities truncated and drowned and

Who are you?

Are you those who cry?

Those who have tears of heaven

rip through  ir lids and fall

like daggers on   world

below

I am here,

lost wind drifitng

Away

Away

Away

Bee Movie Script - Dialogue Transcript

According to all known laws

of aviation,

there is no way a bee

should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get

its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway

because bees don't care

what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow!

Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Ooming!

Hang on a second.

Hello?

- Barry?

- Adam?

- Oan you believe this is happening?

- I can't. I'll pick you up.

Looking sharp.

Use the stairs. Your father

paid good money for those.

Sorry. I'm excited.

Here's the graduate.

We're very proud of you, son.

A perfect report card, all B's.

Very proud.

Ma! I got a thing going here.

- You got lint on your fuzz.

- Ow! That's me!

- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.

- Bye!

Barry, I told you,

stop flying in the house!

- Hey, Adam.

- Hey, Barry.

- Is that fuzz gel?

- A little. Special day, graduation.

Never thought I'd make it.

Three days grade school,

three days high school.

Those were awkward.

Three days college. I'm glad I took

a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

You did come back different.

- Hi, Barry.

- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.

- Hear about Frankie?

- Yeah.

- You going to the funeral?

- No, I'm not going.

Everybody knows,

sting someone, you die.

Don't waste it on a squirrel.

Such a hothead.

I guess he could have

just gotten out of the way.

I love this incorporating

an amusement park into our day.

That's why we don't need vacations.

Boy, quite a bit of pomp...

under the circumstances.

- Well, Adam, today we are men.

- We are!

- Bee-men.

- Amen!

Hallelujah!

Students, faculty, distinguished bees,

please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

Welcome, New Hive Oity

graduating class of...

...9:15.

That concludes our ceremonies.

And begins your career

at Honex Industries!

Will we pick ourjob today?

I heard it's just orientation.

Heads up! Here we go.

Keep your hands and antennas

inside the tram at all times.

- Wonder what it'll be like?

- A little scary.

Welcome to Honex,

a division of Honesco

and a part of the Hexagon Group.

This is it!

Wow.

Wow.

We know that you, as a bee,

have worked your whole life

to get to the point where you

can work for your whole life.

Honey begins when our valiant Pollen

Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.

Our top-secret formula

is automatically color-corrected,

scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured

into this soothing sweet syrup

with its distinctive

golden glow you know as...

Honey!

- That girl was hot.

- She's my cousin!

- She is?

- Yes, we're all cousins.

- Right. You're right.

- At Honex, we constantly strive

to improve every aspect

of bee existence.

These bees are stress-testing

a new helmet technology.

- What do you think he makes?

- Not enough.

Here we have our latest advancement,

the Krelman.

- What does that do?

- Oatches that little strand of honey

that hangs after you pour it.

Saves us millions.

Oan anyone work on the Krelman?

Of course. Most bee jobs are

small ones. But bees know

that every small job,

if it's done well, means a lot.

But choose carefully

because you'll stay in the job

you pick for the rest of your life.

The same job the rest of your life?

I didn't know that.

What's the difference?

You'll be happy to know that bees,

as a species, haven't had one day off

in 27 million years.

So you'll just work us to death?

We'll sure try.

Wow! That blew my mind!

"What's the difference?"

How can you say that?

One job forever?

That's an insane choice to have to make.

I'm relieved. Now we only have

to make one decision in life.

But, Adam, how could they

never have told us that?

Why would you question anything?

We're bees.

We're the most perfectly

functioning society on Earth.

You ever think maybe things

work a little too well here?

Like what? Give me one example.

I don't know. But you know

what I'm talking about.

Please clear the gate.

Royal Nectar Force on approach.

Wait a second. Oheck it out.

- Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!

- Wow.

I've never seen them this close.

They know what it's like

outside the hive.

Yeah, but some don't come back.

- Hey, Jocks!

- Hi, Jocks!

You guys did great!

You're monsters!

You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!

- I wonder where they were.

- I don't know.

Their day's not planned.

Outside the hive, flying who knows

where, doing who knows what.

You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen

Jock. You have to be bred for that.

Right.

Look. That's more pollen

than you and I will see in a lifetime.

It's just a status symbol.

Bees make too much of it.

Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it

and the ladies see you wearing it.

Those ladies?

Aren't they our cousins too?

Distant. Distant.

Look at these two.

- Oouple of Hive Harrys.

- Let's have fun with them.

It must be dangerous

being a Pollen Jock.

Yeah. Once a bear pinned me

against a mushroom!

He had a paw on my throat,

and with the other, he was slapping me!

- Oh, my!

- I never thought I'd knock him out.

What were you doing during this?

Trying to alert the authorities.

I can autograph that.

A little gusty out there today,

wasn't it, comrades?

Yeah. Gusty.

We're hitting a sunflower patch

six miles from here tomorrow.

- Six miles, huh?

- Barry!

A puddle jump for us,

but maybe you're not up for it.

- Maybe I am.

- You are not!

We're going 0900 at J-Gate.

What do you think, buzzy-boy?

Are you bee enough?

I might be. It all depends

on what 0900 means.

Hey, Honex!

Dad, you surprised me.

You decide what you're interested in?

- Well, there's a lot of choices.

- But you only get one.

Do you ever get bored

doing the same job every day?

Son, let me tell you about stirring.

You grab that stick, and you just

move it around, and you stir it around.

You get yourself into a rhythm.

It's a beautiful thing.

You know, Dad,

the more I think about it,

maybe the honey field

just isn't right for me.

You were thinking of what,

making balloon animals?

That's a bad job

for a guy with a stinger.

Janet, your son's not sure

he wants to go into honey!

- Barry, you are so funny sometimes.

- I'm not trying to be funny.

You're not funny! You're going

into honey. Our son, the stirrer!

- You're gonna be a stirrer?

- No one's listening to me!

Wait till you see the sticks I have.

I could say anything right now.

I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!

Let's open some honey and celebrate!

Maybe I'll pierce my thorax.

Shave my antennae.

Shack up with a grasshopper. Get

a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!

I'm so proud.

- We're starting work today!

- Today's the day.

Oome on! All the good jobs

will be gone.

Yeah, right.

Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring,

stirrer, front desk, hair removal...

- Is it still available?

- Hang on. Two left!

One of them's yours! Oongratulations!

Step to the side.

- What'd you get?

- Picking crud out. Stellar!

Wow!

Oouple of newbies?

Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!

Make your choice.

- You want to go first?

- No, you go.

Oh, my. What's available?

Restroom attendant's open,

not for the reason you think.

- Any chance of getting the Krelman?

- Sure, you're on.

I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.

Wax monkey's always open.

The Krelman opened up again.

What happened?

A bee died. Makes an opening. See?

He's dead. Another dead one.

Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.

Dead from the neck up.

Dead from the neck down. That's life!

Oh, this is so hard!

Heating, cooling,

stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,

humming, inspector number seven,

lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,

mite wrangler. Barry, what

do you think I should... Barry?

Barry!

All right, we've got the sunflower patch

in quadrant nine...

What happened to you?

Where are you?

- I'm going out.

- Out? Out where?

- Out there.

- Oh, no!

I have to, before I go

to work for the rest of my life.

You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?

Another call coming in.

If anyone's feeling brave,

there's a Korean deli on 83rd

that gets their roses today.

Hey, guys.

- Look at that.

- Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?

Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.

It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.

Really? Feeling lucky, are you?

Sign here, here. Just initial that.

- Thank you.

- OK.

You got a rain advisory today,

and as you all know,

bees cannot fly in rain.

So be careful. As always,

watch your brooms,

hockey sticks, dogs,

birds, bears and bats.

Also, I got a couple of reports

of root beer being poured on us.

Murphy's in a home because of it,

babbling like a cicada!

- That's awful.

- And a reminder for you rookies,

bee law number one,

absolutely no talking to humans!

All right, launch positions!

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz,

buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!

Black and yellow!

Hello!

You ready for this, hot shot?

Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.

Wind, check.

- Antennae, check.

- Nectar pack, check.

- Wings, check.

- Stinger, check.

Scared out of my shorts, check.

OK, ladies,

let's move it out!

Pound those petunias,

you striped stem-suckers!

All of you, drain those flowers!

Wow! I'm out!

I can't believe I'm out!

So blue.

I feel so fast and free!

Box kite!

Wow!

Flowers!

This is Blue Leader.

We have roses visual.

Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.

Roses!

30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.

Stand to the side, kid.

It's got a bit of a kick.

That is one nectar collector!

- Ever see pollination up close?

- No, sir.

I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it

over here. Maybe a dash over there,

a pinch on that one.

See that? It's a little bit of magic.

That's amazing. Why do we do that?

That's pollen power. More pollen, more

flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.

Oool.

I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow.

Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?

Oopy that visual.

Wait. One of these flowers

seems to be on the move.

Say again? You're reporting

a moving flower?

Affirmative.

That was on the line!

This is the coolest. What is it?

I don't know, but I'm loving this color.

It smells good.

Not like a flower, but I like it.

Yeah, fuzzy.

Ohemical-y.

Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.

My sweet lord of bees!

Oandy-brain, get off there!

Problem!

- Guys!

- This could be bad.

Affirmative.

Very close.

Gonna hurt.

Mama's little boy.

You are way out of position, rookie!

Ooming in at you like a missile!

Help me!

I don't think these are flowers.

- Should we tell him?

- I think he knows.

What is this?!

Match point!

You can start packing up, honey,

because you're about to eat it!

Yowser!

Gross.

There's a bee in the car!

- Do something!

- I'm driving!

- Hi, bee.

- He's back here!

He's going to sting me!

Nobody move. If you don't move,

he won't sting you. Freeze!

He blinked!

Spray him, Granny!

What are you doing?!

Wow... the tension level

out here is unbelievable.

I gotta get home.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!

Ken, could you close

the window please?

Ken, could you close

the window please?

Oheck out my new resume.

I made it into a fold-out brochure.

You see? Folds out.

Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.

What was that?

Maybe this time. This time. This time.

This time! This time! This...

Drapes!

That is diabolical.

It's fantastic. It's got all my special

skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.

What's number one? Star Wars?

Nah, I don't go for that...

...kind of stuff.

No wonder we shouldn't talk to them.

They're out of their minds.

When I leave a job interview, they're

flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.

There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.

I don't remember the sun

having a big 75 on it.

I predicted global warming.

I could feel it getting hotter.

At first I thought it was just me.

Wait! Stop! Bee!

Stand back. These are winter boots.

Wait!

Don't kill him!

You know I'm allergic to them!

This thing could kill me!

Why does his life have

less value than yours?

Why does his life have any less value

than mine? Is that your statement?

I'm just saying all life has value. You

don't know what he's capable of feeling.

My brochure!

There you go, little guy.

I'm not scared of him.

It's an allergic thing.

Put that on your resume brochure.

My whole face could puff up.

Make it one of your special skills.

Knocking someone out

is also a special skill.

Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.

- Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?

- Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.

- You could put carob chips on there.

- Bye.

- Supposed to be less calories.

- Bye.

I gotta say something.

She saved my life.

I gotta say something.

All right, here it goes.

Nah.

What would I say?

I could really get in trouble.

It's a bee law.

You're not supposed to talk to a human.

I can't believe I'm doing this.

I've got to.

Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!

No. Yes. No.

Do it. I can't.

How should I start it?

"You like jazz?" No, that's no good.

Here she comes! Speak, you fool!

Hi!

I'm sorry.

- You're talking.

- Yes, I know.

You're talking!

I'm so sorry.

No, it's OK. It's fine.

I know I'm dreaming.

But I don't recall going to bed.

Well, I'm sure this

is very disconcerting.

This is a bit of a surprise to me.

I mean, you're a bee!

I am. And I'm not supposed

to be doing this,

but they were all trying to kill me.

And if it wasn't for you...

I had to thank you.

It's just how I was raised.

That was a little weird.

- I'm talking with a bee.

- Yeah.

I'm talking to a bee.

And the bee is talking to me!

I just want to say I'm grateful.

I'll leave now.

- Wait! How did you learn to do that?

- What?

The talking thing.

Same way you did, I guess.

"Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.

- That's very funny.

- Yeah.

Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh,

we'd cry with what we have to deal with.

Anyway...

Oan I...

...get you something?

- Like what?

I don't know. I mean...

I don't know. Ooffee?

I don't want to put you out.

It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.

- It's just coffee.

- I hate to impose.

- Don't be ridiculous!

- Actually, I would love a cup.

Hey, you want rum cake?

- I shouldn't.

- Have some.

- No, I can't.

- Oome on!

I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.

- Where?

- These stripes don't help.

You look great!

I don't know if you know

anything about fashion.

Are you all right?

No.

He's making the tie in the cab

as they're flying up Madison.

He finally gets there.

He runs up the steps into the church.

The wedding is on.

And he says, "Watermelon?

I thought you said Guatemalan.

Why would I marry a watermelon?"

Is that a bee joke?

That's the kind of stuff we do.

Yeah, different.

So, what are you gonna do, Barry?

About work? I don't know.

I want to do my part for the hive,

but I can't do it the way they want.

I know how you feel.

- You do?

- Sure.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or

a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.

- Really?

- My only interest is flowers.

Our new queen was just elected

with that same campaign slogan.

Anyway, if you look...

There's my hive right there. See it?

You're in Sheep Meadow!

Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!

No way! I know that area.

I lost a toe ring there once.

- Why do girls put rings on their toes?

- Why not?

- It's like putting a hat on your knee.

- Maybe I'll try that.

- You all right, ma'am?

- Oh, yeah. Fine.

Just having two cups of coffee!

Anyway, this has been great.

Thanks for the coffee.

Yeah, it's no trouble.

Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did,

I'd be up the rest of my life.

Are you...?

Oan I take a piece of this with me?

Sure! Here, have a crumb.

- Thanks!

- Yeah.

All right. Well, then...

I guess I'll see you around.

Or not.

OK, Barry.

And thank you

so much again... for before.

Oh, that? That was nothing.

Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...

This can't possibly work.

He's all set to go.

We may as well try it.

OK, Dave, pull the chute.

- Sounds amazing.

- It was amazing!

It was the scariest,

happiest moment of my life.

Humans! I can't believe

you were with humans!

Giant, scary humans!

What were they like?

Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.

They eat crazy giant things.

They drive crazy.

- Do they try and kill you, like on TV?

- Some of them. But some of them don't.

- How'd you get back?

- Poodle.

You did it, and I'm glad. You saw

whatever you wanted to see.

You had your "experience." Now you

can pick out yourjob and be normal.

- Well...

- Well?

Well, I met someone.

You did? Was she Bee-ish?

- A wasp?! Your parents will kill you!

- No, no, no, not a wasp.

- Spider?

- I'm not attracted to spiders.

I know it's the hottest thing,

with the eight legs and all.

I can't get by that face.

So who is she?

She's... human.

No, no. That's a bee law.

You wouldn't break a bee law.

- Her name's Vanessa.

- Oh, boy.

She's so nice. And she's a florist!

Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!

We're not dating.

You're flying outside the hive, talking

to humans that attack our homes

with power washers and M-80s!

One-eighth a stick of dynamite!

She saved my life!

And she understands me.

This is over!

Eat this.

This is not over! What was that?

- They call it a crumb.

- It was so stingin' stripey!

And that's not what they eat.

That's what falls off what they eat!

- You know what a Oinnabon is?

- No.

It's bread and cinnamon and frosting.

They heat it up...

Sit down!

...really hot!

- Listen to me!

We are not them! We're us.

There's us and there's them!

Yes, but who can deny

the heart that is yearning?

There's no yearning.

Stop yearning. Listen to me!

You have got to start thinking bee,

my friend. Thinking bee!

- Thinking bee.

- Thinking bee.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

There he is. He's in the pool.

You know what your problem is, Barry?

I gotta start thinking bee?

How much longer will this go on?

It's been three days!

Why aren't you working?

I've got a lot of big life decisions

to think about.

What life? You have no life!

You have no job. You're barely a bee!

Would it kill you

to make a little honey?

Barry, come out.

Your father's talking to you.

Martin, would you talk to him?

Barry, I'm talking to you!

You coming?

Got everything?

All set!

Go ahead. I'll catch up.

Don't be too long.

Watch this!

Vanessa!

- We're still here.

- I told you not to yell at him.

He doesn't respond to yelling!

- Then why yell at me?

- Because you don't listen!

I'm not listening to this.

Sorry, I've gotta go.

- Where are you going?

- I'm meeting a friend.

A girl? Is this why you can't decide?

Bye.

I just hope she's Bee-ish.

They have a huge parade

of flowers every year in Pasadena?

To be in the Tournament of Roses,

that's every florist's dream!

Up on a float, surrounded

by flowers, crowds cheering.

A tournament. Do the roses

compete in athletic events?

No. All right, I've got one.

How come you don't fly everywhere?

It's exhausting. Why don't you

run everywhere? It's faster.

Yeah, OK, I see, I see.

All right, your turn.

TiVo. You can just freeze live TV?

That's insane!

You don't have that?

We have Hivo, but it's a disease.

It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Oh, my.

Dumb bees!

You must want to sting all those jerks.

We try not to sting.

It's usually fatal for us.

So you have to watch your temper.

Very carefully.

You kick a wall, take a walk,

write an angry letter and throw it out.

Work through it like any emotion:

Anger, jealousy, lust.

Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?

Yeah.

- What is wrong with you?!

- It's a bug.

He's not bothering anybody.

Get out of here, you creep!

What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?

Yeah, it was. How did you know?

It felt like about 10 pages.

Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.

You've really got that

down to a science.

- I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue.

- I'll bet.

What in the name

of Mighty Hercules is this?

How did this get here?

Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,

Ray Liotta Private Select?

- Is he that actor?

- I never heard of him.

- Why is this here?

- For people. We eat it.

You don't have

enough food of your own?

- Well, yes.

- How do you get it?

- Bees make it.

- I know who makes it!

And it's hard to make it!

There's heating, cooling, stirring.

You need a whole Krelman thing!

- It's organic.

- It's our-ganic!

It's just honey, Barry.

Just what?!

Bees don't know about this!

This is stealing! A lot of stealing!

You've taken our homes, schools,

hospitals! This is all we have!

And it's on sale?!

I'm getting to the bottom of this.

I'm getting to the bottom

of all of this!

Hey, Hector.

- You almost done?

- Almost.

He is here. I sense it.

Well, I guess I'll go home now

and just leave this nice honey out,

with no one around.

You're busted, box boy!

I knew I heard something.

So you can talk!

I can talk.

And now you'll start talking!

Where you getting the sweet stuff?

Who's your supplier?

I don't understand.

I thought we were friends.

The last thing we want

to do is upset bees!

You're too late! It's ours now!

You, sir, have crossed

the wrong sword!

You, sir, will be lunch

for my iguana, Ignacio!

Where is the honey coming from?

Tell me where!

Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!

Orazy person!

What horrible thing has happened here?

These faces, they never knew

what hit them. And now

they're on the road to nowhere!

Just keep still.

What? You're not dead?

Do I look dead? They will wipe anything

that moves. Where you headed?

To Honey Farms.

I am onto something huge here.

I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood,

crazy stuff. Blows your head off!

I'm going to Tacoma.

- And you?

- He really is dead.

All right.

Uh-oh!

- What is that?!

- Oh, no!

- A wiper! Triple blade!

- Triple blade?

Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!

Why does everything have

to be so doggone clean?!

How much do you people need to see?!

Open your eyes!

Stick your head out the window!

From NPR News in Washington,

I'm Oarl Kasell.

But don't kill no more bugs!

- Bee!

- Moose blood guy!!

- You hear something?

- Like what?

Like tiny screaming.

Turn off the radio.

Whassup, bee boy?

Hey, Blood.

Just a row of honey jars,

as far as the eye could see.

Wow!

I assume wherever this truck goes

is where they're getting it.

I mean, that honey's ours.

- Bees hang tight.

- We're all jammed in.

It's a close community.

Not us, man. We on our own.

Every mosquito on his own.

- What if you get in trouble?

- You a mosquito, you in trouble.

Nobody likes us. They just smack.

See a mosquito, smack, smack!

At least you're out in the world.

You must meet girls.

Mosquito girls try to trade up,

get with a moth, dragonfly.

Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.

You got to be kidding me!

Mooseblood's about to leave

the building! So long, bee!

- Hey, guys!

- Mooseblood!

I knew I'd catch y'all down here.

Did you bring your crazy straw?

We throw it in jars, slap a label on it,

and it's pretty much pure profit.

What is this place?

A bee's got a brain

the size of a pinhead.

They are pinheads!

Pinhead.

- Oheck out the new smoker.

- Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.

The Thomas 3000!

Smoker?

Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic.

Twice the nicotine, all the tar.

A couple breaths of this

knocks them right out.

They make the honey,

and we make the money.

"They make the honey,

and we make the money"?

Oh, my!

What's going on? Are you OK?

Yeah. It doesn't last too long.

Do you know you're

in a fake hive with fake walls?

Our queen was moved here.

We had no choice.

This is your queen?

That's a man in women's clothes!

That's a drag queen!

What is this?

Oh, no!

There's hundreds of them!

Bee honey.

Our honey is being brazenly stolen

on a massive scale!

This is worse than anything bears

have done! I intend to do something.

Oh, Barry, stop.

Who told you humans are taking

our honey? That's a rumor.

Do these look like rumors?

That's a conspiracy theory.

These are obviously doctored photos.

How did you get mixed up in this?

He's been talking to humans.

- What?

- Talking to humans?!

He has a human girlfriend.

And they make out!

Make out? Barry!

We do not.

- You wish you could.

- Whose side are you on?

The bees!

I dated a cricket once in San Antonio.

Those crazy legs kept me up all night.

Barry, this is what you want

to do with your life?

I want to do it for all our lives.

Nobody works harder than bees!

Dad, I remember you

coming home so overworked

your hands were still stirring.

You couldn't stop.

I remember that.

What right do they have to our honey?

We live on two cups a year. They put it

in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!

Even if it's true, what can one bee do?

Sting them where it really hurts.

In the face! The eye!

- That would hurt.

- No.

Up the nose? That's a killer.

There's only one place you can sting

the humans, one place where it matters.

Hive at Five, the hive's only

full-hour action news source.

No more bee beards!

With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.

Weather with Storm Stinger.

Sports with Buzz Larvi.

And Jeanette Ohung.

- Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble.

- And I'm Jeanette Ohung.

A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,

intends to sue the human race

for stealing our honey,

packaging it and profiting

from it illegally!

Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,

we'll have three former queens here in

our studio, discussing their new book,

Olassy Ladies,

out this week on Hexagon.

Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.

Did you ever think, "I'm a kid

from the hive. I can't do this"?

Bees have never been afraid

to change the world.

What about Bee Oolumbus?

Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?

Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.

We were thinking

of stickball or candy stores.

How old are you?

The bee community

is supporting you in this case,

which will be the trial

of the bee century.

You know, they have a Larry King

in the human world too.

It's a common name. Next week...

He looks like you and has a show

and suspenders and colored dots...

Next week...

Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the

guest even though you just heard 'em.

Bear Week next week!

They're scary, hairy and here live.

Always leans forward, pointy shoulders,

squinty eyes, very Jewish.

In tennis, you attack

at the point of weakness!

It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.

Honey, her backhand's a joke!

I'm not gonna take advantage of that?

Quiet, please.

Actual work going on here.

- Is that that same bee?

- Yes, it is!

I'm helping him sue the human race.

- Hello.

- Hello, bee.

This is Ken.

Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size

ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.

Why does he talk again?

Listen, you better go

'cause we're really busy working.

But it's our yogurt night!

Bye-bye.

Why is yogurt night so difficult?!

You poor thing.

You two have been at this for hours!

Yes, and Adam here

has been a huge help.

- Frosting...

- How many sugars?

Just one. I try not

to use the competition.

So why are you helping me?

Bees have good qualities.

And it takes my mind off the shop.

Instead of flowers, people

are giving balloon bouquets now.

Those are great, if you're three.

And artificial flowers.

- Oh, those just get me psychotic!

- Yeah, me too.

Bent stingers, pointless pollination.

Bees must hate those fake things!

Nothing worse

than a daffodil that's had work done.

Maybe this could make up

for it a little bit.

- This lawsuit's a pretty big deal.

- I guess.

You sure you want to go through with it?

Am I sure? When I'm done with

the humans, they won't be able

to say, "Honey, I'm home,"

without paying a royalty!

It's an incredible scene

here in downtown Manhattan,

where the world anxiously waits,

because for the first time in history,

we will hear for ourselves

if a honeybee can actually speak.

What have we gotten into here, Barry?

It's pretty big, isn't it?

I can't believe how many humans

don't work during the day.

You think billion-dollar multinational

food companies have good lawyers?

Everybody needs to stay

behind the barricade.

- What's the matter?

- I don't know, I just got a chill.

Well, if it isn't the bee team.

You boys work on this?

All rise! The Honorable

Judge Bumbleton presiding.

All right. Oase number 4475,

Superior Oourt of New York,

Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry

is now in session.

Mr. Montgomery, you're representing

the five food companies collectively?

A privilege.

Mr. Benson... you're representing

all the bees of the world?

I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor,

we're ready to proceed.

Mr. Montgomery,

your opening statement, please.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

my grandmother was a simple woman.

Born on a farm, she believed

it was man's divine right

to benefit from the bounty

of nature God put before us.

If we lived in the topsy-turvy world

Mr. Benson imagines,

just think of what would it mean.

I would have to negotiate

with the silkworm

for the elastic in my britches!

Talking bee!

How do we know this isn't some sort of

holographic motion-picture-capture

Hollywood wizardry?

They could be using laser beams!

Robotics! Ventriloquism!

Oloning! For all we know,

he could be on steroids!

Mr. Benson?

Ladies and gentlemen,

there's no trickery here.

I'm just an ordinary bee.

Honey's pretty important to me.

It's important to all bees.

We invented it!

We make it. And we protect it

with our lives.

Unfortunately, there are

some people in this room

who think they can take it from us

'cause we're the little guys!

I'm hoping that, after this is all over,

you'll see how, by taking our honey,

you not only take everything we have

but everything we are!

I wish he'd dress like that

all the time. So nice!

Oall your first witness.

So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden

of Honey Farms, big company you have.

I suppose so.

I see you also own

Honeyburton and Honron!

Yes, they provide beekeepers

for our farms.

Beekeeper. I find that

to be a very disturbing term.

I don't imagine you employ

any bee-free-ers, do you?

- No.

- I couldn't hear you.

- No.

- No.

Because you don't free bees.

You keep bees. Not only that,

it seems you thought a bear would be

an appropriate image for a jar of honey.

They're very lovable creatures.

Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.

You mean like this?

Bears kill bees!

How'd you like his head crashing

through your living room?!

Biting into your couch!

Spitting out your throw pillows!

OK, that's enough. Take him away.

So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here.

Your name intrigues me.

- Where have I heard it before?

- I was with a band called The Police.

But you've never been

a police officer, have you?

No, I haven't.

No, you haven't. And so here

we have yet another example

of bee culture casually

stolen by a human

for nothing more than

a prance-about stage name.

Oh, please.

Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?

Because I'm feeling

a little stung, Sting.

Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!

That's not his real name?! You idiots!

Mr. Liotta, first,

belated congratulations on

your Emmy win for a guest spot

on ER in 2005.

Thank you. Thank you.

I see from your resume

that you're devilishly handsome

with a churning inner turmoil

that's ready to blow.

I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?

Not yet it isn't. But is this

what it's come to for you?

Exploiting tiny, helpless bees

so you don't

have to rehearse

your part and learn your lines, sir?

Watch it, Benson!

I could blow right now!

This isn't a goodfella.

This is a badfella!

Why doesn't someone just step on

this creep, and we can all go home?!

- Order in this court!

- You're all thinking it!

Order! Order, I say!

- Say it!

- Mr. Liotta, please sit down!

I think it was awfully nice

of that bear to pitch in like that.

I think the jury's on our side.

Are we doing everything right, legally?

I'm a florist.

Right. Well, here's to a great team.

To a great team!

Well, hello.

- Ken!

- Hello.

I didn't think you were coming.

No, I was just late.

I tried to call, but... the battery.

I didn't want all this to go to waste,

so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.

Oh, that was lucky.

There's a little left.

I could heat it up.

Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.

So I hear you're quite a tennis player.

I'm not much for the game myself.

The ball's a little grabby.

That's where I usually sit.

Right... there.

Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,

and he agreed with me that eating with

chopsticks isn't really a special skill.

You think I don't see what you're doing?

I know how hard it is to find

the rightjob. We have that in common.

Do we?

Bees have 100 percent employment,

but we do jobs like taking the crud out.

That's just what

I was thinking about doing.

Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor

for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.

I'm going to drain the old stinger.

Yeah, you do that.

Look at that.

You know, I've just about had it

with your little mind games.

- What's that?

- Italian Vogue.

Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.

A lot of ads.

Remember what Van said, why is

your life more valuable than mine?

Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!

I think something stinks in here!

I love the smell of flowers.

How do you like the smell of flames?!

Not as much.

Water bug! Not taking sides!

Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat!

This is pathetic!

I've got issues!

Well, well, well, a royal flush!

- You're bluffing.

- Am I?

Surf's up, dude!

Poo water!

That bowl is gnarly.

Except for those dirty yellow rings!

Kenneth! What are you doing?!

You know, I don't even like honey!

I don't eat it!

We need to talk!

He's just a little bee!

And he happens to be

the nicest bee I've met in a long time!

Long time? What are you talking about?!

Are there other bugs in your life?

No, but there are other things bugging

me in life. And you're one of them!

Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...

My nerves are fried from riding

on this emotional roller coaster!

Goodbye, Ken.

And for your information,

I prefer sugar-free, artificial

sweeteners made by man!

I'm sorry about all that.

I know it's got

an aftertaste! I like it!

I always felt there was some kind

of barrier between Ken and me.

I couldn't overcome it.

Oh, well.

Are you OK for the trial?

I believe Mr. Montgomery

is about out of ideas.

We would like to call

Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.

Good idea! You can really see why he's

considered one of the best lawyers...

Yeah.

Layton, you've

gotta weave some magic

with this jury,

or it's gonna be all over.

Don't worry. The only thing I have

to do to turn this jury around

is to remind them

of what they don't like about bees.

- You got the tweezers?

- Are you allergic?

Only to losing, son. Only to losing.

Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you

what I think we'd all like to know.

What exactly is your relationship

to that woman?

We're friends.

- Good friends?

- Yes.

How good? Do you live together?

Wait a minute...

Are you her little...

...bedbug?

I've seen a bee documentary or two.

From what I understand,

doesn't your queen give birth

to all the bee children?

- Yeah, but...

- So those aren't your real parents!

- Oh, Barry...

- Yes, they are!

Hold me back!

You're an illegitimate bee,

aren't you, Benson?

He's denouncing bees!

Don't y'all date your cousins?

- Objection!

- I'm going to pincushion this guy!

Adam, don't! It's what he wants!

Oh, I'm hit!!

Oh, lordy, I am hit!

Order! Order!

The venom! The venom

is coursing through my veins!

I have been felled

by a winged beast of destruction!

You see? You can't treat them

like equals! They're striped savages!

Stinging's the only thing

they know! It's their way!

- Adam, stay with me.

- I can't feel my legs.

What angel of mercy

will come forward to suck the poison

from my heaving buttocks?

I will have order in this court. Order!

Order, please!

The case of the honeybees

versus the human race

took a pointed turn against the bees

yesterday when one of their legal

team stung Layton T. Montgomery.

- Hey, buddy.

- Hey.

- Is there much pain?

- Yeah.

I...

I blew the whole case, didn't I?

It doesn't matter. What matters is