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

12 Months on 7th - 2

2

the clouds are never puffy here haze on a complete layer of flat gray
clouds lays over 7th beat the sidewalk with an old broken umbrella
black and torn they say "terror" when walking the stopped escalator it's
strife when the huge fountain is stopped it's lies when the doors are
closed and locked it's vengeance when the spotlight and booming voice
(speaker) awakes you at 5am: throw a rock and it misses no one notices
"get up and go to the Mission." intemperance when pulled into county
jail and let go at 3am to walk seven blocks altercation with the
staffing sergeant about the lost blanket the bag of cans the fear that
invites exhilaration the hardening and tension the fingers temples
battle screaming alternating "they are assholes, you are a mother
fucking scum shit face," please forget the murder the son against the
mother

12 Months on 7th - 1

1

walking in from Commerce, after riding the train in from Fontana. Cold
June early morning. Kerouac is dead, Ginsburg, Neal/Dean, oh fuck even
Burroughs... but not Ashbery, Ferlinghetti, Strand – forgot Bowles dead –
the map of the unloving/unborn unfolds. a critic asks, "do you care
about the time line?" well (long drawl) does it all happen in sequence?
Or in parallel sequential waves?

Pico and Olympic

The corners are curved here with access to the street for handicapped persons.
Step the wrong way and you will have a sprained ankle and then be handicapped.

Remember to aim for the middle of the ramp and bounce up as you
hit the lip of the slightly raised curb; you will glide over
and onto the sidewalk with ease. Beware of your speed at this
point, you may be going to fast and might endanger others and
yourself.
 
Drop it into first gear quickly and brake. Look around before:


Your sides			Split with laughter
No walking here			While watching the news
Your sides			Ache from laughter
No walking here			Split with laughter
Watching the walking trip	Stay away from doors
Watch the walking fall		Stay away from windows
Watch the walking crawl		Stay away from stairs

The contrast from ten = explaining – (talking x silence)
Forget the equation(s): pull forward and park
Drop the anchor
Call out for Rum

‘The tears of love
Flow down my face
Creases of skin spread
The water’s flow 
To the corners of my mouth
Where it spits away from my head
Slapping you in the face, The Red Rose
Of Love, the thorns slicing your
Arms as you (they) draw away in pain’

The brightness from nine = silence + (explaining / talking)
Click on the calculator: reach for the sparkling water
Reach for the lemon wedge
Step on the accelerator
Spin around 
Tightly

Struggling around		Dropping bread
Unsteady and crying		From a bag
Watching the pigeons		To the ground
Pecking pecking pecking		Pecking pecking pecking
Watch the pigeons peck		Knock on the windows
Watching the pigeons eat	Knock on the doors
Watching the pigeons land	On the stairs

Alpine Street at Grand cont.

4

They say				"This
Is Alpine Street,"			they say
It					because
It 					is
A DWP					truck
Rolls up to the				corner
Rolls to a stop:			while
While					while
"So you					see"
That is					Grand
No one is allowed			to
Pee 					pee
On					Grand
Exposed these				words
A					deception
Water gushing				upward
No					one
Saying it's				gushing
The play "the word"			sincerity
Drop					it
Internalize it while it			is
Dropping dried				snot
Wisdom					past
Erinnyes speaking			through
Bad					teeth
Good wrath clean water			beautiful
Bodies					locked
Together turkey				sandwich
Tortillas beans rice coffee		cream
Dreams that followed me			talking
Incessantly evaporation			that
Turns					the
Street					the
Walls into				the
Words reflected by images		Hepburn
Driving the point on			the
18th following into 19th		never
Watching only acting never		impulsive
Always impulsive			in
Details in				lower
Case words				so
You					see
This					is
Alpine					street