Poems By Mark Young

Mark Young's most recent books are Mineral Terpsichore & Ley Lines, both from gradient books of Finland, & The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago. A new collection, some more strange meteorites, is due out from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York, in early 2017.

dated synths & retro ballads

Preachy comments about the

body weight of a two story

concrete building with tudor

style plasterboard walls cause

hip-shaking beats to be repur-

posed with a twist of industrial

here & there. Contextual factors

mean an abrupt increase in the

lateral stiffness. Learning needs

become asymmetrical. The wall-

of-sound harmonies are no longer

winsome in an absence of chic.

An increase in lipochrome

Riding roughshod over the

objections of a 1000 gypsies

& drawing sustenance from

the idea that communication

is more important than trad-

ition, she downloaded Michael

Jackson's autopsy report, the

biggest controversy in the entire

history of UFO research, &

spent the next five days picking

it apart. The 40 pounds of im-

pacted fecal matter reportedly

removed from his colon could

easily be obtained by a brief

search of the yellow pages; the

spin put out by the conspirators

heals the gun shot wounds to

provide pictures of an intact

head; & the symmetric calci-

fication in the basal ganglia

consistently acknowledges

another derivation from the

Alien Autopsy trope much

used in popular culture.

a mere black silhouette

Engulfed in shadow, with no

light reaching them, your

daughters will prophesy

that stormy weather can inter-

fere with cloud computing.

the / camel toe / of Esther Williams

She rode side-

saddle all the way

to the heights of

Macchu Picchu.

Then, now that

that was off her

bucket list, the

camel toe of Esther

Williams became

impatient. Paris

the next stop; & a

Busby Berkeley

romp that finished

in une des fontaines

des jardins du chât-

eau de Versailles.

The Color of the Earth

If the songlines are

unfamiliar, then look

to the rhythm of the

piece. The ear plays

tricks; but there are

only so many ways

the heart can beat.

bashed, stabbed, drugged, & stuffed in a burning suitcase

  

                Sadness, when mixed with

                             some self-pity, turns into

                       a chamomile rice pudding

                       with tea-soaked golden

                  raisins. Anti-aging medicine,

                          although a difficult topic

                      to address, can be simply

                            defined as an ongoing

                             invitation to any narrative

                practitioner whose golden

                             retriever has recently died.