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like the impossible orchard before every squeezing agora
like the crying-baby-psycho-local-frenzy self
like you me us not mine not yours not even ours
like any news loop lauded climate catastrophe of the mirror
like the loophole out is a needle head it fucking stings
like in uberland each face i see a late receipt to the undying
like technocracy of photoshop djs to monetize the remix ego
like hook looks candy every crush a legitimate manicure
like sex with every colour a visible world can come to body
like precisely what it means to be late fears the party never ends
like cacophonous mornings every bit of laundry wide open window
like anti to heaven thesis rush hour dialectics everyone a synthesiser
like and because nor but or how ever to never ever
like the anvil will at times fall there is many a thing called society
like spare the ground for all the jumps you fly-tipped
like sedimenting rock addicts of the sand world now to Zuckerberg's spite
like call me by my name i’ll call you by yours ok but please call
like law of the excluded middles well friends are not followers
like a pain in your lower back is a pain in my upper and lower back
like Total Freedom spins the wheels fortune mows lawn and feet with it
like god dog hides cocky under fast track wheels can’t you see
like somebody falls off the balcony live pass me the salt please
like a wiki surveying social contingencies as you play good cop
like cockroaches will some day rave on our sepulchral expanse
like your average gleaning forehead feels hot about the coastline
like you tell me a search engine for feelings the way i don’t
like litres grammes and watts of pretty much anything else can’t
like you won galactic lottery now take this watch and just watch
First version in Modern Queer Poets, edited by Richard Porter, Pilot Press, in 2019. Read live as part of the launch event for the anthology (9 January 2020) at Tenderbooks, London.
Performed as part of Free Cash Radio, a program devised by Adam Ghallagher and Ruth Angel Edwards at Cashmere Radio, 28-29 February 2020.
Another version is included in some times zero hours, a pamphlet edited by SPAM Press, May 2022.