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This is *such* great work Lewis.
There's the delirious and gorgeous imagery that has
always been such an attractive component of your work,
but here also (and did I not notice it so much before
or has it been slowly crystallizing?) a rigorous,
almost steely control of the materials.
The sense of storytelling, the incorporation of
dialogue, the confidence to mix the heady stuff with
the almost prosaic…
a complete pleasure to read.
michael
— Lewis LaCook <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> I had this feeling that I was
> worth loving, and you let me
>
> have it: a month of solid
> silence and invisibility, and you've
>
> forgotten me now, I'm sure:
> haven't even taken the movies back.
> I feel I might've excited you. True,
> you said, "You're mischievous,
> undermining, it gets you hot
> to be bad," with the heroin
> of your eyes pushing through me,
>
> "I need all your attention."
> Client status: Connected.
> In cramped shoes I'm
> transparent on milk
> ice: sliding over islands, mortar,
> crystals lateral with morphine
> lapsed into strings,
> stillness; my lace.
> Cerebral, but rebellious.
>
> The secret to rolling a great joint
> is to roll it tight enough to smoke well
> but loose enough to let any left-
> over stems elude piercing the paper.
>
> I feel it might be exciting
> to feel loved. Someone rubs me
>
> until I blossum. Until it
>
> rains on my tongue. This is free.
> There are only so many
>
> kinds of sense. One in which
> you're thick, surrendered
> to golds and reds, wear glasses
> and have supper with your
> mother. Meanwhile, outside
> our encampment, fat
> velvet fires rescue air from
> almost total transparency.
> I suck up files from a remote
> location for work. Wake up
> with my eyes already sunk,
>
> jerk off: get high. Client status:
> Connected. A tartly-intelligent
> girl with her hand on my belly.
> She says she likes it too much.
> She has all my attention.
> Character sets legitimize
> where the pre-dawn wind
> plies from you in heavy draughts
> your childhood, your child, rubber
> nipples: reading under a passive
> milk of electric, not walls.
> They hug cattle before they
> shoot them in the brain.
>
> I sleep past waking.
>
> Everyone will be infinitely home soon.
>
> I was dreaming in blush sundaes,
> before, though: we are the wasps
> that would rather sting themselves
> to death, if that means we escape
> a natural terminal port: we're
> those literal motherfuckers
> who will not hover, but sparkler
> and cackle like it's all that's
> holding us down. I hate the royal
> we. Dreaming about licking
> the heart of red, the pith of gold,
> cleaning you of stalwart
> impurities. Ever feel
>
> like you're just marking a beat
> in a line. Smoke orally
> inflates the room. Filtration
> flirts with purity the way eightball
> chicks glom to money;
>
> it makes them feel loved. Even
> common houseplants know
> where the sun is, swoon and go
> limp when she's gone. I'm still
>
> waiting for that Saturday you promised me
> not thinking about me at all not thinking about
> you at all not thinking about you at all.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
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>
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