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The Life of Pablo II

2/12/2016

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I.

no more apples in the geometric garden

can you fit an entire schoolbus in your mouth

catapult screams into paris hotel rooms

since you were born you have showered in clothes

w/o laughing

languid stick of dynamite

army of flags 

in the blue void 

i glimpse your jaw as a pyramid

hammer mountain skeletal muscle gasping

cocaine ribbon stretched between poles

in remembrance 

a chrysalis

you place yourself on an alchemy square

feigning christmas tree in front of the portrait

fire in orbs and blood on the canvas

ego death on youtube

the mothership looks like a pink brain

it’s midnight 

it’s mardi gras

it magnifies the moon with chains and a patience

front door against a boulder

rewinding into shoes

halfway accommodated

i fall asleep closet style

you talk multiple hours

to fever dreams in insomnia color

flash of the supermarket

birth of the big ox


II.

Kanye West at the vertex of rivers

written in sanskrit

read to a pony

Kanye sitting against studio walls

as pages tear aching titanium buildings

in Moloch whose mouths are seven billion fast windows

boots crack the ridge

blind heads in tinfoil crackle

Kanye West sweltering sheer solid light

the universe watching

magnitude nothing

contains

blue flowers rolling through soil

in a thick vision

a crystal ball

endless hands refracting colliding

Kanye West at the axis of a tidal wave

so loud

the bead of sweat

the universe w/ tyrannosaur fear

GOD!

GOD!

a finger knocks

the hand

Kanye West wielding

watching the universe


III.

no more doors in the bright 

squared station

feeling like a lizard 

on a chair outside the office

poems on a pile

the floor is a treadmill

like a good psychopath

blinks my eyes abandons 

a metaphor

plastic bag consciousness

boy eating glue sticks

dreaming in the hallway

fishes appearing

i’m into mythology

i’m so damn rebellious

love the iguana

what! a legend

sonicboom angels suggest a new order

steam in a seizure comes out 

the wreckage

what shine

i’ve never been to

washington montreal chicago or

denver

still a treadmill

i’m confronting

this ugly marble

out of the tomb

out of mythology


IV.

GOD! six after midnight

GOD! eyes open in stupor

GOD! spark of the astral

GOD! temple. temple

GOD! teeth in a cyclone

GOD! kingdom of stray dogs

GOD! motion of lava

GOD! fingernail glory

GOD! walk upon the wall wall

GOD! rain is freezing

GOD! lost in the desert

GOD! eyes like lasers

GOD! underground cities

GOD! sacred machinery

GOD! ghost under spotlight

GOD! zodiac problems

GOD! fiery dollars

GOD! exhibition racecar

GOD! chamber of echoes

GOD! bubble two one

GOD! the racing desperation

GOD! millions of dollars

GOD! whispers at the treeline

GOD! watering a house plant

GOD! vision of the incident

GOD! shot connects the staring

GOD! all the bowls are empty

GOD! pain silver spiral

GOD! it burns the thing inside it

GOD! not even crazy

GOD! never let them gentle

GOD! succulent nebraska

GOD! thunderbird blues blues

GOD! nothing except love

GOD! never ever soften

GOD! 

. .. , .

GOD!


​

Several lines in section IV of this poem were adapted from lines in "The Murder Mystery" by The Velvet Underground and the poems "An Agony. As Now" and "Incident" by Amiri Baraka.

Luis Neer is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, including Autobiography (Bottlecap Press, forthcoming March 2016). They edit this journal. Find them on twitter and tumblr.
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