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Levi Rubeck
2019
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<hr style="height:2px">For women with something mad golden
budget low like adorable [[Estelle|22]]
at her surprise party.
Let it bust. Let it day.
Let it touch
like a sharp
berry. This year
browse through the jewelry. Don’t miss the
[[social phoenix|12]].
[[X|TOC]] Mickey was fighting
gold-plated love, co-starred with
Suicide, the first guy on heroin,
someone nonjudgmental.
The patron saint of cigarettes.
This rainy church is still around,
says the priest. Hills rise
out of the noir like a drag
queen arsonist. Spelling a single
flop wasn’t bad, but the surgery
contributed to my films. Plan the money,
the gods, the honor, the ram, his
heart of wood. Review a sample
rave—a galvanizing embrace of
the stakes. The profane mix
like a bottled court. [[Rourke’s choice|16]]
is easy digs. He’s the Pope of
Dogs. He knows history and landed
like a fucking wrestler—urk. A
decade as dead. Touch the wrestler,
the risen flames. On a muggy
cross see the skeletal. [[Father|8]],
throw down some smoke. The priest
says he knows some indelible gossip.
Goon cheekbones don’t know the presence
of pacts. A robust eagle links to sex.
The hunter had seemed stronger
than havoc. The audience was hot
and freshly shaved, no old all wild.
[[X|TOC]]To escape before a stumble, I lean
on lunch. My cat watches me
leave furiously hazy. I hedge, I
handle, I need underwear, I look
for a reasonable voice. Of course,
I couldn’t sculpt a scenario
that made my skirt roam with
accessible eyes. Maybe I paused for
the maintenance man. Longish lips dart
away. Oh, no no no, you
wanted my plump callused hands. You
got a sink. You got a
wet grind. I’m not seeing lady
muscles. Shook a condom onto his
moan, now this curiosity, [[an erotica designer|6]].
Coral locks stuffed full with
new laurel, lube, lamps, I pick sweet
womyn, recycle their fires, then pin-up
the pillows and measure a baby snake.
We pray while the eerie artists feel small.
This civil war between a plague and
a dream gained attention by sitting.
Men join sides, women act elegantly.
[[X|TOC]][[Hushed joy. The subject of poverty.|19]]
Lucy is rapid and complicated.
Between facial tattoos our heroine
repeats her shiver. She think, she women.
Opposition comes between naps.
When a divorcee faces her husband
she discovers an audience. The [[guerilla|14]]
scholars are woven in taboo, come see.
[[X|TOC]]
Bang your hair and duty returns to
the modern world. Doubters defend
Oldman with a scorched cocktail.
The Soviets never saw Lady Macbeth.
Nail biters stop the show. We like
Eastern translation, it’s a live wire.
Dreamy vampires milk the true tale
of Lonely Wrist and we’re along for
the cameo. Film approaches the phone,
TV holds 24 rites, our entertainment
with its Vegas roots famously foul.
A new Bruce is named Plush Fuss.
Flowers in feathers immensely
proud, I guess. Plush took it
across the back. It was your
life. [[You worry about people|4]] but
don’t roll, we’re afraid of the sound.
I got a doozy. Can you apocalypse?
It takes weeks before
I kiss the guide. One-handed
she writes virgo ravenously. All our
adult excerpts are zipless. And the
passage about strong passages bothered me.
Giggling together, we were an entire
lady, awake. Factory in China sprawls. Two
teenage girls make money, their power
within tradition, they dictate the shots.
They work in a room remotely
because they would try to corrupt
the old factory. The story is eccentric,
deteriorating. What cope?
Go on grieving and unusual.
Thebes mixes a youthful slouch and
a key. The hospitalized never really
reassure us. We see an indifferent
invalid identify with fiction. Tragedy
singles out literature, since the process
opens up pop culture. Hang in
there, [[Mae West|27]]. Dense waves of
feminist rebellion familiarize scholarly studies
on hellions interested in growing up.
Jesus, quit dumping Diane, her
small-town memoir is meddlesome even in
adulthood. An impressionable young tagalong.
God’s fearful narrative preaches both.
[[X|TOC]]
Sacrifice [[the royal dentist|24]] named Fortune.
He gave the best rodents. When they
ran out of food they began
to fire at anyone. By that
time Brando had speared six moths.
Still, [[he was one forehead|26]],
all hardships, a kind of Tahiti.
Brando returned, blind, to sell the
horizon, he vowed to crash
into coral. It was the first gang.
[[X|TOC]]
Birds born awkward
with their mother’s
infamy. Open-toe penis-
bone planted by target. Breaking up
is our plan, you’ll spot the
low-level backlash. Time to
ruin doomsday by slowly consuming the
shock. Give her control. I want
you to know when someone is
rehashing the aftermath. This text trolls
for twin bedding and splits all the
powdered-wigs. A romantic woman
constantly moves. [[Snooze gun needed to kill|18]].
Remove the screws, open the
circuit board, reassemble your ammo, beeps,
kill the maniacs. Your wires
expose a real bullet. We don’t
don’t think any vulnerable bed is
in serious jeopardy. Hand-printed men from
tread the water between your legs. Rocks
make ink for the lion, the gear
[[cheerfully demands we grow up|5]]. Just
because you plug the pedal into
your car, doesn’t mean you start your
own rumble. As assurance of a little peek,
She-Bot responds to sexy batteries.
[[X|TOC]]
When two days before a band of
spirit cemented their snowballs, one little
snot took in the speed. Storms blow out
from a citizen sunset. Your child
[[comes fused to your fantasies, he|3]]
doesn’t attack the island,
but his father buried [[the first Europeans|5]].
[[X|TOC]]
Historically speaking, beheaded by her Irish
illness, she could jump to whispers
and wails and dash through grunts.
Is Wild a girl, then a woman?
She gleams to a certain
silence, [[executed with an old organ|7]].
Yes, this feels magical, funny,
and smart. Sister, date already! Box
the bright TV with sage, weave
sounds like deep waters. I recall
musical territory, steel drums
found far out, back to reunite
with their blues, with Lady Glitter.
Songs are slow dance ladies, kiwi-born,
[[lusting for blacktop|17]]. Finally a
regular flavor is the front woman,
her lyrics teeter on low magic.
You’ve just stepped slow and steady.
[[X|TOC]]
[[Queens died for tribal drumbeats|10]].
Their artists whisper “hide them well,
these innocent vocals,
regardless of synth-pop eagles:
a team of boys, fear and
poseurs.” Harmonies shrouded in
azure sweetness, honey inspires
urban students to keep things
manual. [[Fine gentleman, the smoothest|16]]
mash is used syrup. Your bourbon
came from a buzz-killing process.
[[X|TOC]]
Holy clay is heaped over a fine
shoulder—aim for pecs but save
some fire. Smooth rookies shoot
lead; don’t act like a rookie.
Traps are a semicircle loaded with
your girlfriend. You yell “pull,” a
second eye remains shut, if you’re
on earmuffs, you’ll be resistant to
art, no one will think
about it. [[The first man to walk|9]]
carved a vocabulary.
It was he who informed all
children about art. Icons of a foxx,
wise on going homeless,
fire convincing rays. To play violin I
put a gap in my big
piano key, I fucked my
finger on push-ups, I refresh
myself. This got a lot of
heat. You shouldn’t joke about
a great joke—so stone me!
Hit the blanks. Your body
don’t know America. If I wasn’t
Prince I would love to play
Prince, in persona. Bishop sips
a glass of wine. My sister never
said “[[it’s the same today|4]]. Every
little thing is coming soon.”
[[X|TOC]]
Ask the weapon one galactic question:
who invented history? A kid copies some
soldiers, after radar expands constantly
into the universe expanding, galaxies
expanded from two dimensions.
Human rib, primate tongue,
and butter, anyone? Like crack made
to measure your men by the quarter-
ton. Chemical-free, you order in
bulk. Give your guy, an upwardly
gentleman, the leather of a new
lighter. [[It’ll whip the nuances|25]] like
a belt. People know complex aromas
can’t protect them, but they can
flip open four-inch street preachers
with style, pure poundage shot from
a mini-breakdown. I heard Darren
has his own man. I have only
my behavior. This is the guy
I want surrendered. Director says
the real audience is
one of the boys. He learned
[[wrestling with relative ease|2]]. Old Mickey
would leave heat after a solution.
He’s a hurricane, outspoken and
focused, method-acting fake gold. Handcuffs
know him so well. His face
can appear with the bleach,
eyes more alive. The past
clenches the hand that nudges
the chamber. He growls, “the
little hatchet lives to ten, then
he says ‘Dear Diary’ and doodles
your nana.”
[[X|TOC]]
Hot glue on heavy fabric,
folded like a card,
shears centered then stapled twice.
The spicy-sweet night makes
for some jingle-jangle. Turning
beastly is a little like origami.
Perfection is debatable.
[[Lips, eyes|18]], this man
[[cast from designer products|21]] is natural
plastic in cash. He is
slightly obsessed with December.
[[X|TOC]]
A ceramic spacewoman,
Rourke has always been
fixated on being a man.
Fish milk him of the
picture. One pal, a shy guy,
makes painkillers in his apartment.
He handles diminutive people. On top or
on bottom, I always sit. He’d
send over the kid with celebrity
friends, iconic musicians, from Dylan
to Bruce. They roost along Thursdays,
Coronoas regularly knocked back by
excitable angels. He shot ornate chandeliers
with a blonde feigning
obliviousness to the arsenal
of toys. Fuck AA,
I don’t believe in easy tits.
My problem has always been bachelorhood.
A non-committal Catholic brings
redemption to the bearded biker in
the ashes of blue light. I
stood at the ocean and drank,
I couldn’t stop.
His life was heartbreak.
Alone, I smoked,
myself a child. Mickey
was born abusive. He recalls
[[a carpenter|3]], a bodybuilder, my
[[father, shirtless and holding a baseball|8]].
I had no discipline. I came
from Liberty City, the short end
of a drug deal, swilling scene
after scene in comic-book noir.
His fight scene with Frank Stallone
runs afoul. Lightweights boogie
and sweet-talk their coming-of-age
heat.
[[X|TOC]]
Feisty does everything but foreplay,
subtlety, scotch, and business.
The real Madison would inhabit
morgue of brass. Manufacturers recognize
the spending power of ladies, those
responsible for the bottom line of
the early pioneers. Their slogan: “Pour
[[Sugar on Sugar|15]]! Add an Ounce
of Dry Skin! Overdo it!” I would
cut out the tail, fold it under
Amanda’s own batwing, then watch Carol
lace-up the leather vulture. She
fancies minks under the billboard: “Try
Writing!” Her hairdresser liberated
bleach across New York. It was
unseemly for a woman to kill.
The writer agreed to the interview,
opening doors to racist and sexist
advertising. Today, women near
a career. Society works freelance
by raising his psyche.
[[I loved my towering women|21]], I welcome
the shock of their glamorous novels. “What’s
a good idea?” Robinson nonchalantly recalls.
Heavy hitters, male or female, acting
the lead. How impressed I was!
Tinker, the world is her own
and still mad. Cigarettes and public
questions about a “silly woman” but I
wasn’t interested in success. They imagine
me totally used, because we were
consciously brought up to have it raw.
[[X|TOC]]
Replace your scientists and we can
prevent the holidays.
More affection from this gorgeous
friend, she picked the catnip
of competition because synthesized human
pheromones reject cheap
imitations. A siren nests in the
inhuman Santa Monica winter. I didn’t
really know the upside-down cross,
rather I was possessed by a backyard of
blasting guns n’ eight-year-olds.
The forbidden black lipstick, or,
more specifically, a cheerleader in
denim; through thrash I would
remember that jewelry was
crushing. I can pinpoint the yearn
for unbuttoned Americans.
Scoured and sleepy, over twenty-thousand
readers assembled a crown of ultrasounds.
People think I’m from Salt Lake,
but [[I train kids in offline honor|27]].
[[X|TOC]]
Here’s some money, flaunt your profits!
The less compelling will eat their
rent. Gramercy’s owner can’t match
Crisco but makes his duck
climb stairs for tasteless returns. Great
news! Remember the poetic
war? The agility, the finesse? We’ve
made huge leaps since then. Ex-Nets
guarding former possibilities…. When’s
the videogame coming for the disease of
art? The truth is, girls love
toothless scratch. She made
[[that conversation funny,|7]]
her book is in need of
much more campfire. Roosters trained to
pull a sled and someday she’ll write
the instructions. Her other birthday
is accompanied by lust to invade
teenage populations. Take this map
of the local Gothic fairy tale
Protagonist, young, delicate,
navigates jealousy by looking for a
gentle clientele. Legally, she works
for the Man. Through her memoir, art
escapes New Jersey as a blossom.
It’s hard to pity art-world
eccentrics. Dexedrine is
more doormat than dust.
[[She is the pregnant world|17]].
[[X|TOC]]
Interviews issue Vincent
more than madness between
masquerades and voluntarily healing
his culture. Eventually he’d have
started to look for patients, doctors,
medication, and the microcosm that is
an autobiographical summer. He can barely
express superficial stuff. You’re familiar with
Oregon? Come away with
[[romantic pleasure|26]]. Watch Portland, like
a loyal dog owner, it will eventually
go black and white.
Grow yarn, bees, and butter.
Off the bus and wireless.
Shopping is tough, but still,
get these things: an old vacuum,
abrasives, heavy candles,
maelstrom, [[modern lady statues|10]].
Office reality devours “liberated”
dresses. The mid-century is a sexpot.
Old personas become the playmate
to mad mystique, restrictive
women, and golden royalty. Dare to
step outside of an adorable apron
and paint heavy-metal? All rights
reserved.
[[X|TOC]]
Whenever the temperature drops….
Dress shoes say a lot about
your lists—like stained birds
who knit water, flour, and
yeast into breathable vests. Throw one
over a traditionally clockwise lady.
What makes killer shine? In the
states [[Estelle|24]] prods her natural
glow by those same dewy poses,
around eighty girls, perhaps the
reason Savannah has shady summers.
February throbs with stories to tell
on a lazy porch. To be historic, old
warehouses bustle with hot pink groupies.
A good man taught five-year-
old Girl Scouts to peruse the
museum. There, a collection
of affordable sewing machines,
no experience necessary.
[[They’re bewitching|5]] if
you’re not around.
It’s a shame her attitude
equips her with tiny musicals
and a rebellious younger brother.
[[Middle school sucks for everybody|2]].
I’m growing foggy with the ax,
defying what I can—
sanitary sex and acid endures.
Eat a party dress. Everyone
loves traditional vodka,
stir in the sauce, whip
up old records for someone. Show
every movie ever experienced.
The holidays are a delectable
oil perfect for swimming.
[[X|TOC]]
Do you want to drop
[[deathbed confessions?|22]]
Is there any superhuman
without a biopic? What’s your
last meal? “My wife.” Named for
the after-party.
[[X|TOC]]
Jamie-Lynn, clumsily
boiling her comfortable bones,
says “Of course there are some producers
keeping my mouth shut tighter
than a gang member.”
She could hardly avoid feminine readers.
You should marry a manhunt.
The simple die toss is fraught
with versatility: on the beach,
on your head, resting against one’s
imitation of a woman. She’s invited
you for premarital sex, and first-
year aeronautical engineers move back on
dating but never pass the entertainment
of a comic like [[Estelle.|25]]
[[X|TOC]]
Estelle was born a Getty
but married Death in 2004.
Estelle got autobiographical.
Even though Arthur’s actually
five years younger, Estelle appears golden.
If I knew, I’d vote
for old bags. Lookin’ cute!
[[Shake some ass|11]]!
Any toe goes way beyond
dance routine. They ordered
[[Cynthia around by buzzer|21]].
The Muses shake political ladies
whose day jobs are to balance a
career with stargazing.
You can help The Universe,
a film followed by children
hanging out by the audience.
The third installment
of holiday glamour sounds fun
but a burnt down museum
is truly stunning. Look back
at the biggest miracle
David could grind down.
We’re suffering from overlooked
Olympic success, Bird vs. Magic,
this year’s wheelchair is the trophy.
The shock left estrogen
in the street, a marketer’s wet dream.
All madness led
to an accidental essay embalmed
in ceremonial bronze.
Our swagger lights up the home.
[[X|TOC]]
Look out Lilly! Men toss out emotion
but I’m not a genuine enemy. I mean,
I love gossip, and my friends
show such kindness that I
lied because I could. They didn’t
give a shit. It left me
with a girl who’s witty
between the sheets. She’d start
mocking me as though she were
breaking the cliché of bad-insane
and good-insane. Steve notes that these
women give you the taser.
Interviews with male victims identified the
perils of temporary insanity. Sometimes a
chick isn’t wild, it’s you. I
dated this guy but he behaved
like twenty-dollar bills. In retrospect,
I enabled it.
[[Honestly, this kind of man|15]] reveals
the garbage. An unassuming dental hygienist,
she seemed to be completely animalistic.
Not a buttoned-up wax man,
often abandoned (as Jared
puts it: “the crazy ones on the
verge of drama”) , who lacked
a flat stomach. Can’t have dessert.
[[This woman is superhuman|23]],
just leave her. Free your fragrance.
Men in the world
should never wish
for a cute blonde. Knowledge
is the beginning. If only there
were fresh-cut football bonuses or
juicy steaks, a clean-shaven vacation,
free-flowing and gorgeous. Sounds like
your traditional technology traps the glaze
of sports before Spain’s slanty fingers.
Posing in Olympian moustaches, the
teammates of Tom had ligaments
like dreamy freshmen. How
was surgery? Foul. Ugliness. Eight belles
shudder. Commence the voodoo
orgasms. Janelle’s own Rachel comes around
by [[purple text|6]]. How you say
“available” from the book
of flesh and male fantasy.
You were a charmer, right?
[[X|TOC]]
The Bond girl carries new pipelines.
Bond adapts. [[I read your life’s work|TOC]]—
very kind. Who could love standard
masterminds? I glimpsed her voice,
the fake alligator is also tiny,
an original spoof. She played
all men in a rotating hell
some years earlier. The sweetest
hairline, the most sinister letters, all
have their parts & labor. Artificial
people have to stop sweating. I
used a slight spritz in the purse,
for the joy of it. [[Sublime babes|1]]
love wisdom, you might not
have realized. Jenny and Vincent
are clueless, though they’ve managed
perfect health until now.
You can keep your eggs on deck
but there’s no promise of resolution,
maybe some sexcitement—it’s a shift
into safer gadgets.
Reality wrote for the CIA.
It made a cigarette into
a magnet. A strongman of steel
[[jumped seven guitarists|11]]
who were paid by the slippery company
of you and your body.
[[X|TOC]]
Preacher tells us “draw back, witness as
we lose a little. [[Assassinated shipmates|9]]
anticipate irregular history. Engaging puritans is
less presidential than scathing. I had
primal casserole in a riot. Although
her optimum diet delivers, it’s time
to scope disease. Why? Our obsession
is love, addictive and brutally
interdependent.
[[X|TOC]]
//end note//
These poems were originally composed in 2009 by taking an issue of //Bust// and an issue of //Maxim//, tearing out all the pages and mixing them together, then highlighting the phrases/words I wanted to use. After that, bits were filled in as necessary to aid the flow.
Not sure if Twine/interactive fiction is really the best way to present these poems, but I am interested in the idea of getting lost wandering through them as if they were a forest. I did my best to have thematic, logical connections between the linked text and the following poem, though I'm sure readers may have other opinions on the efficacy of this.
There's no real ending, other than if you make it back to the [[table of contents|TOC]] (the long list of X's), at which point you can see which ones you've missed and head on over.
Some of these poems were previously published in //6x6// #26, courtesy <a href="https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/">Ugly Duckling Presse</a>. They rule, buy their books.
Thank you for reading!
//<a href="http://www.levirubeck.com/">Levi Rubeck</a>//
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