9th and Olympic – What did you do it for?

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well why pick up a piece of paper a cigarette burned down
an aluminum can ok standing over a recycling can sticking
one hand arm in then looking you know the lid lifts but it
won’t lift never the leaf blower starts up

well why flows takes a piece from paper that a cigarette
was burned under an aluminum can approve excessive of the
situation a tin of recycling that sticks an arm of the hand
in then watching knows the elevations to him of the cover
but elevation of won’t never the blower of the leaf begins
for above 

well why a piece of the paper takes rivers the fact that a
cigarette under an aluminum was burned can excessively
approve from the situation a tin the recycling of this of
the sticks, which an arm of the hand, if it watches out
then, knows the elevators to it the cover, but the blower
of the sheet for above begins elevator of won’t, never 

9th and Olympic - Scribbling

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scribbling on the wall with a Sharpie scribbling one word
no two words and the question subject is rejected stay out
no one is allowed in this hotel lobby except guests: on the
stairs leading to the door at foot level shiny shoes and
slender heels walk by tennis shoes walk by it’s distance
it’s close it’s persistent not then is it those things
these that someone will call out without effect scribbling
again the sharpie is flattened shifted to the left writing
to the right side begin to open into a gated area where
luggage stands waiting for luggage carriers damp crackers
don’t crack chewing is reduced swallowing is easier: the
devil pops out of the wall above the scribbles lecturing
begins delay not begin grasping quit not survival lease it
out take a condo in West Hollywood move in ice box dry ice
vented for high summer temperatures the holding is lost
around arms that were there reaching down pouring forth
reaching up clinging to the little finger the nails, “oh
they’re painted yellow reversible purple,” shiny is this a
specified emotion feeling being communicated through a
thirteen year old scratch it out scratch it out scratch
scratch somewhere on Olympic the smell of Thai seasoning
rises

devil pops out of the wall above the scribbles lecturing 
don’t crack chewing is reduced swallowing is easier: the
out take a condo in West Hollywood move in ice box dry ice 
begins delay not begin grasping quit not survival lease it
around arms that were there reaching down pouring forth 
vented for high summer temperatures the holding is lost
they’re painted yellow reversible purple,” shiny is this a 
reaching up clinging to the little finger the nails, “oh
thirteen year old scratch it out scratch it out scratch 
specified emotion feeling being communicated through a
rises
scratch somewhere on Olympic the smell of Thai seasoning
no two words and the question subject is rejected stay out
scribbling on the wall with a Sharpie scribbling one word
stairs leading to the door at foot level shiny shoes and
no one is allowed in this hotel lobby except guests: on the
it’s close it’s persistent not then is it those things 
slender heels walk by tennis shoes walk by it’s distance
again the sharpie is flattened shifted to the left writing 
these that someone will call out without effect scribbling
luggage stands waiting for luggage carriers damp crackers 
to the right side begin to open into a gated area where

9th and Olympic – Buicks

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the buicks driving by are singing singing into each other
into each tire spinning singing and spinning the base of
each street light is darker than the area a foot above the
base each area above the base glows glows blue fog rolls
off the top of the poles and spills spills down into the
street enveloping the singing buicks the spinning spinning
tires back wash the condensation and each buick becomes a
rocket engine floating floating over the road the buicks
driving by are singing singing into each others ears
driving by are singing singing into each others ears
rocket engine floating floating over the road the buicks 
tires back wash the condensation and each buick becomes a 
street enveloping the singing buicks the spinning spinning 
off the top of the poles and spills spills down into the 
each street light is darker than the area a foot above the 
into each tire spinning singing and spinning the base of 
the buicks driving by are singing singing into each other 

and

buicks that lead close is singing singing in one to in each
singing that it rotates of the tire and to rotate the base
of each light of street is darker than intensely shines the
area on the foot on the base that shines intensely each
area on the base blue fog falls the cover of posts and the
spillings are spilled down in the street that surrounds
buicks singing the tires that rotate that they rotate
behind wash the condensation and each buick becomes a
floating flotation of the space motor on the way buicks
that leads close are singing to sing in each others the
ears that lead close are singing singing in each others the
floating flotation of the space motor of the ears on the
way the tires of buicks behind wash the condensation and
each buick becomes a street surrounding buicks singing
doing to turn that it rotates of the cover of posts and of
the spillings is spilled down in the each light of street
is darker than the area on the foot on in each singing that
rotates of the tire and to rotate the base of buicks that
leads close it is singing singing in one 

12 Months on 7th - 12

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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