30 October 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 3

from Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot

"Brange say it's about the work."
– G. Stein

the self's heavy architecture

acing the wonder quiz


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Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot [Britsey]


linger in the orchard now

it's like an occidental potpourri


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Sparkle Beach


[IS LOHAN GAY?

I don't know but she sure seems happy.]


human men

on a scale change

human men

on a scale change

human men


in the clown-sauce

meteor


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Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot [leatherette]


these small guitars

of team glass blue lanyard


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Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot


Subject: the city's most public and sacred area


1. sister migration


exactly in the how is why

covering the ground

burn slowly both

anecdote & landscape

the concise townscape

burn slowly both—

Sis didn't the Talmadge

the wherewithal stew?

didn't we unscrew the platters?

hark the herald friends in

snow crass discovery like

the VIP frown


2. Zappa Blair


witness the haveyounot carryall landmark

of skin shone the love dots &

mended ways which declaim


3. Heath (2)


love's hang-giddy hand in silt air

which declaims


4. shorn (2, Britney)


said from youth

said from youth

said from youth


5.


make your head small in

unreachable furniture

draw the unknowable

lines of little artists

your hairy nar nar

your mouths & skins


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Team Ledger


all across the boulevards & bars

the nary windstop

the fortune whim

in alleyway

in mustang

no mistaking

little claim


LABELS: HUMANMEN


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Postproduction


as universal charmless brio

as the nameable

as the fucksake

as the lens

speeds our knees

little artists

on our knees

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About the author:

Elizabeth Treadwell's recent books are Birds & Fancies (Shearsman, 2007) and Wardolly (Chax, 2008). She lives with her husband and their children in her hometown of Oakland, California. She sometimes blogs, is interviewed, and has a website.

For further reading:

Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 3, where "from Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot" ran on October 30, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.

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