the shallow ocean floor
by Mark Young
Make your own website, quickly.
Reconcile such a dramatic economic
year. Forget that planned journey
to Damascus on Monday; instead
visit the Angel City Bookstore in
Santa Monica. Has anyone tried
& was successful at Globalization?
The pedestrian bridge
The female goes nude
to bed, wears wire
mesh in the hope she’ll
morph into a docuseries
in which four men con-
template colonialism &
wonder if they’d feel the
same about it if it came in
a variety of pastel shades.
The Wanted
A woman appeared behind
the man. The necklace glittered.
They laughed. Dinner was
coming. Its eyes were fearful.
The smoker drew deep. I won-
dered what she was thinking.
Answered. Solved. Expired. Invalid.
The innate immunity of pigment
& nomenclature can not only be
seen in every land-based casino
in Mumbai but also in the third
studio album of Realizing Beebo.
Stigma may be attached to the
disparity in the access to & use
of fishing & fun; but this is an
exhibition, not a race, & will
change Generation Y more than
a shift to a daytime cable. They
are broke & can no longer be re-
lied on as an alternative to horses.
Perl hashes are so case sensitive.
A line from Joni Mitchell
I add the instrument. It doesn’t
play back as it should, gives
me an error message to tell
me there is no pause present
in global warming or climate
change. Claims that it is other-
wise come from standardized
files with text & formatting
created by people unwilling to
upset the status quo or the donors
of their research money. I find
a new starting point, one that
recognizes truth no matter how
politically unpopular that may
be. I add the instrument. Now
I can clearly hear the castanets.
BIO
Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry since 1959. He is the author of over fifty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are The Perfume of The Abyss from Moria Books; A Vicarious Life — the backing tracks from otata; taxonomic drift from Luna Bisonte Prods; Residual sonnets from Ma Press of Finland; & The Comedians from Stale Objects de Press, all published during 2019.
