12 Months on 7th - 12

12

be relative rather that one or the other one more stab at
ending a habit that walks away toward Olympic counts
souvenirs plastic bottles bags aluminum cans molding into
flat plates a map a route H has taken many times walking
stopping laughing loudly and speaking to the wall the
building wall the entrance that says "no entrance today
maybe tomorrow get a badge," but badges aren't anywhere I
go no stores no pharmacies no cats gagging on saltine
crackers the privilege or do you say "presence?" one or
this one H is thinking a shower bottled water maybe 'soap'
getup and into a falling water flowing "are you connected
by blood?" soap and dirt remember those literary criticism
classes? The questions flow down the street and sink into
the 'big' hole to San Pedro did this did that that did this
and (like in good novels) 'suddenly' the scene changes and
suddenly H is in a room 20 dollars a night don't focus on
the big picture just look down at the night stand table 4
bottles (small) of vodka 3 bottles of tequila 2 bottles of
jack daniel's 1 bottle of aquavit all single shot bottles
let's mix and match: back down on the cement someone is
sleeping under a blue tarp no thinking but dreaming about
eating ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah someone maybe 'you' does the
speaking props up the intellectual thoughts (oh, ideas)
Plato got stuck in the mud in/out in/out and onward walking
along looking over the curb into the drain plastic bags on
the brick sidewalk. Mr. Suitcases has found a grassy area
by the 3rd Street tunnel

12.1

be relative something that
one or another one plus a stab
in finishing a habit that walks far

towards the plastic
bottles of the Olympic memories
of the accounts packs the
tins of aluminum which they mold in

the flat plates a map
that a route H has often taken that walked stopping to
laugh in a high voice and speaking to the wall the wall of
the building the entrance goes that that says entered
the? no it obtains perhaps tomorrow a currency today? But
aren't of currencies anywhere no warehouses no pharmacies
no cats that gag ignition skips cakes the privilege or you
dice "presence" or H is thinking of "soap about

skillful bottle of the water perhaps" getup and are
that flows of the water that falls that you connected by
blood? the soap and the dirt remember those literary
classes of the critic: The questions flow under the street
and they sink in a big hole to San Pedro did this did 

the

one that did this and (like in good novels) "suddenly" the
scene changes and H is suddenly in a room 20 dollars a
center of don't suddenly at night in the right glance of the great

picture down in the bottles of the table the support
at night (small) bottles of the tequila vodka 2
bottles of daniel's of the cat one single bottle of aquavit
that all the bottles of the shot are mixed and

which they match: the back part down in the cement
somebody is sleeping under tarp blue no thought but
dreaming over eating ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah somebody
questions "you" it makes the supports of speech upon the

intellectual thoughts (oh, ideas) that Plato in/out
obtained to patch in the mud in/out and forwards walking
throughout watching on the street one in the plastic
purses of one in the sidewalk of the brick. Mr. Suitcases
has found a grassy area by the 3rd tunnel of the street

12 Months on 7th - 11

11

Watching stairs				Then abandoning
This is how the				Narrative thought
Details can be 				Little pieces pebbles
Discerned the				Thrown by tires
Structure present			Little pop eyes
Pulling out an				Pebbles talking
Orange, "oh metaphor			Chattering saying
For terra" stairs			"I picked up a bottle
Lead the blind				of wine this morning."
To the ideas the			After waking up. So
Newspaper coverage			Many drunken pebbles


No underwear these shorts are all that exist along with a
t-shirt and old Nike's a cane and Converse hat leaning over
breathing heavily cigarette in mouth delivering a nickel a
dime a nickel a nickel to ride sitting "How are you?" was a
telepathic 'hello' another person looks expectantly at:
write a short note that describes the staircase... up, up, up
"you" the big "I" that removes pieces of fingers severed by
sums "stupid movie" oh shirt do "you" the I that inhabits
this page grasp the ending of the movie?

12 Months on 7th - 10

10

getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup
count them twenty four five people here count them talking talking to
each other other incessantly talking getup getup getup getup getup
getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup getup pages of a
magazine ripped out and dropped covering the floor the entry way the
entrance the stair way leading in getup getup getup getup getup getup
getup getup getup getup getup getup getup

12 Months on 7th - 9

9

Blinding 		yellow light
Hands 			hands grappling
Gray 			faces through
Closed 			eyes
Through 		ripping
Cloth 			through
...E's 			barely conscious, "see those?"
Oxygen 			mask taped down "see
Those?" 		Shoes off disinfectant hands
Hands 			"See these
Open 			wounds?"
Figueroa 		is empty now no
Cars 			none
Walking 		head dead
Package 		under the left arm
Newpapers 		under the right taken
Earlier 		in the
Morning 		while
Looking 		for money for breakfast
While 			waiting
While 			the "It's
Simply 			not
Ok 			to steal from others."
The 			big face
Said 			while waiting
Tucking 		the package behind the
Tire 			of
A 			parked Honda Civic with
Orange 			green
Trim 			while waiting
Sitting 		forward fingers wrapped around
His 			neck to
Stop 			talking
To 			stop
Blood 			flow to
Stop 			the catapults from firing
To 			stop
The 			rock hurled
Over 			the high walls into
Stop 			the invading the ones
Who 			don't stop
Who 			stop
Flashlights 		waving flares burning while
Waiting 		while
Waiting 		while blind

12 Months on 7th - 8

8

working off the fat of the last hundred years is hard. H has to stop
and read each sign that comes to him. the buses are harder to read the
repetition though finally announces the subject never does it change
until one morning another sign has replaced not z, y, x ever or find a
plasma tv in a store window (usually it's just alluded) take a prone
state and watch silently for hours or minutes or seconds. his coat
sleeve is torn around the buttons (watching the hole) loose threads
single gray brown black blue from the hole a head appears big white
teeth laughing jerking around, "take the signifier, apple," the face is
bright red and disappears through the front door all is silent except
for the occasional bus or car take the preposition and place it in the
can take a verb and drop it after a name: two big feet seeing nothing
but staying still a halo glows from the window

12 Months on 7th - 7

7

"can each part be as important?" H is reading the L.A. Times opinion
section from from from 2 weeks ago, ago. "can each word be..." H looks up
at the 7th Galleria, "is it whole?" forget it. stamped on the, stamped
on the sidewalk, stamped on the sidewalk is a Che Guevara silhouette.
two buses roll by (what subject?) to South Park Staples Center and on,
on and the flies hover overhead waiting to land circling waiting for
the grammar to correct itself waiting for the punctuation to end and
reappear as if: they… the period, comma, exclamation, quotation marks
would cross the street to be with the downtown library. oh shit! up the
street a man is walking fast eyes furiously looking for a slow walker
one walker with a wallet. CRASSSHHH! "oh, sorry." And on down the
cement walking path he went H gets up and turns around

12 Months on 7th - 6

6

W can't tie his shoes this morning no bending no reaching no one to
hear what is written "oh at odds," identity and the walking up the
street footstep after footstep, "what do you do with it," now isn't
interesting enough for a remembered breakfast in St. Louis or Peoria –
OK remember all that no one is really behind it all: the temperature
has dropped 10 degrees you can't do this well and do another better
drop it in a trash can think it can be learned the technique and good
'god' work at it over and over and over

12 Months on 7th - 5

5

one being the two being again one then following street lights standing
500 meters apart (not L.A. language) the bus driver pulls over the
doors open looking ahead after looking at her watch the same subject
and people: pardonable acts on the staircase blanket martyr man walking
in open toed shoes asking for nothing not nothing to ask for to begin
the stop watch and stop it as if going to the end was a knowledgeable
knowing all not all anyway self conscious impression mirrored in the
restaurant windows faces looking back amid the others "is it impression
really, or the need to know?"

5.1

one that is both that they are again lights of a street of following
that are stopped 500 meters of separated (L.A non-language.) the pulls
of the driver of the bus on the doors the same subject and people open
to anticipate after watching its clock: the acts pardonable in the
stairs cover the man with martyr that walks in the shoes touched with
the end of the foot open which they do not request anything nothing not
to request to begin the shutdown clock and to stop it as if going to
the end or it was informed knowing all not all anyway reflected
conscious impression of the one same one in the faces of the windows of
the restaurant which they seemed back in the middle of others "is the
impression really it, or the necessity to know"

12 Months on 7th - 4

4

incrustation around the lid of the peanut butter jar empty
fixed in character variable in extent pointing north dash
board compass saying "supernatural events influenced by..."
to the naked (no glasses, lenses, laser cuts) eye pulled by
the thirteenth letter of the alphabet – surrender get down
on your knees and kiss the cement (imagine the dirt below)
dream about a cocktail from the fifties remember? The
electric train went to Corona went to Long Beach:

4.1

incrustation around to the premises of the specified
protection of the emptiness of the bottle of character
of the peanut in the 0 variables of the letter in the
width, of that has the reference that the compass of the
north of the cover of the warning of the introduction
interested of directed "supernatural of the cases... (the
crystals of glass, are against, cut to him of the laser)
with the luminous eye cocktail of marked years 50, the
end to remember if of tenth letter three of the
transmission of the extensions of the alphabet for deeply
inside his nose and covered the glue ideal (the dirt for
smoothly is I use fact), ignited? the course that the
electrical worker was to the crown was to regulate the
length in the beach:

4.2

incrustation around to the premises of 
the specified protection of the emptiness of the bottle of
character of
the peanut in the 0 variables of
the letter in the width, of
that has the reference that the compass of
the north of the cover of the warning of
the introduction interested of directed "supernatural of
the cases... (the crystals of
glass, are against, cut to him of
the laser)with the luminous eye cocktail of
marked years 50, the end to remember if of
tenth letter three of
the transmission of the extensions of
the alphabet of
for deeply inside his nose of
and covered the of
glue ideal of
(the dirt for smoothly of
is I use fact), of
ignited? the course that of
the electrical worker was to the crown of
was to regulate the length of
in the beach:

4.3

incrustation of
protection of
of
width, of
north of
interested of
crystals of.
with the of
end of:
transmission of
inside of
smoothly of
electrical of
length of

12 Months on 7th - 3

3

The bed						is
Centered against the forward			wall
A						toilet
A lavatory cold water				only
A						window
Above the					porcelain
Wooden						floor
No rug single bed				directly
Across from					a
Door						north
Picture hanging to the				left
Low drawers					east
No landscape					not
Interior either as no				cycle
Or						imitation
Before						now
Cement floors bars a				bench
Low ceiling					twelve
Others staring into each			others
Eyes waiting					for
Movement					waiting
To						go
Forget						this
Smell						to
Forget this					waiting
To walk away to					walk
The room					is
Four floors					is
Up stairs musty smell				is
Another scent					is
The memory					beauty
Is once						enjoyed
Once repelling					once
Remembered					once
A spiritual experience an			agreement
(a dead angel fallen				once)
The pigeons come in the				window
Shitting					all
Over the					room
Plastic sheeting covers the			bed
Only for					sleeping
All						else
Is layered by years				by
Dust in those layers				by
Remnants of moisture in 			lines
The pigeons come in the				window
Shitting					all
Over the					room
Plastic sheeting covers the			bed
Only for					sleeping
All						else
Is layered by years				by
Dust in those layers				by
Remnants of moisture in				lines