20.0p

tension nitro ego

Dylan Harris

20.0p

tension nitro ego

Dylan Harris

Potato Press

Some of these poems have been published by Great Works, Words-Myth, and the programme for the 2006 Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry.

by Dylan Harris

4 anticipating the metaverse, 3 nation six dog, 2 discard

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20.0: s chew, r dye-de-ho, q antwerp, p tension nitro ego, o church is dangerous vital, n tin rush, m the A rush, l an engineering rush (ii), k Miss Demeanour, j flock state, i be infinity, h Namings, g nation six dog, f uncivil law, e dead write, d chase chase, c an engineering rush (i), b a much for we, a The Joy Of Tax

19.9: c Inn, b Swoop, a An Ode To The A14

19.8: c Rose, b Hymnen, a Darmstadt

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Poems

clip monopoly

lines stride yellow

5.5.5

dim him an ignore

tension nitro ego

red

chuff or that’s why the fragging counterstrike

& beer &

broken the night across

drawn

Why The Black Background?

confidence began

Galveston tonight

upset

movie stamp & splash akin

puzzle so

you beautiful cascade

from Sappho

clip monopoly

elephant admires ant

tries leafwalking

stanza & some

delete

elsepage font counterset

print élan erased

elephant admires terrier

tries ratting

pages exact select

number instruct

cum crapness delicto

refuse or every one

elephant admires drunk

tries pub door

hey mr mouse

i’ve a job for you

lines stride yellow

the roads of then bright

walk age i

planners’ map lines stride yellow

“buses route there”

i shall break your bus

the sister

school order

commerce green bus

blow round home queue

fare eaten plead

we shall unmake your bus

the council

if i plain proud

unlucked gene no fool

a do what i can man

i’d responsibility care bus drive

we shall fust your bus

the state

the once road many go

bus now stride

on plan yellow

assumpted at long past rose

5.5.5

contract eddy & dock yay

elderly cat & shoelace tango

two form ruff women attract

both that glorious v uncarressed

dim him an ignore

was 7 i

him told

extra pain dull must

dim him an ignore

now

whatever strong

whatever soft

whatever dentist

shake

the hurt

virus strong rare

cease sooner

inject small month dement

scotch wash

tension nitro ego

new earth hello round here

I WANT TO BE HERE

the arse we do goes this

THAT’S RUDE

song flight the bird Messiaen microtonal wings that

WHO’S NITRO TONY

part like play round dance the stage doubt nothing

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

rich evolution wide gender mix strategy complex gay thus

THAT’S DISGUSTING

depend born on human subtle rich no way full know ego

THE WINDOWS ARE DIRTY YOU ARE DIRTY

open intense cosmos wide complex Wittgenstein wash up

YOU SHOULD CLEAN THEM

supersymetric part–life graviton force p–brane

YOU’RE BEING HORRIBLE TO ME

now rehearse play right now do dream exact now stride

I HATE YOU

presumption burn plastic in breathe fucked off thank

red

twelve years is

red power mine ish

cata collapse

mine ish

moment here see

red freckle eleven ish

not the face

not mine definite

remember

if wish

chuff or that’s why the fragging counterstrike

how do i politely chuff

the complexity beyond

their focus inability

it’s not the presumptive louders

it’s the distant can’t choosers

who distress

presuming that’s a tree not a thunderbolt

presuming that’s an amber not a lager

presuming that’s a goat not a sacrifice

i should counterstate

they might just

drill my unfocus

& beer &

beer

gentle write enhancer

but there just

& beer &

question solution bar

reacting jellied

& beer &

send only the these

this then they answer that

broken the night across

broken the night across

be i am must

love glown no

luck meet

a damn good to see you smile

quarter elsetime pre despite

unsettle

young bright & shine she

loyal

but ego me archaied

marketing hi

sweat omissed

fact oopsed

offer the restaurant

the not a

the sensory

the star

drawn

sketched

by drawing girl

subject

of student dressed

corner observation

would i ever

Why The Black Background?

I close taste to all the world’s leeching,

listen to foto nous empty,

sight to never glancing cliché prancing,

scent to but that’s how it’s always done.

Do you see lines? All lines?

Do you see shapes? Intersect shapes?

Do you see the counter container?

Sometimes it’s not all there.

Sometimes it’s just not there.

The image fundamental, the form dominator,

the geometric axes, the container: the border.

Landscape’s lines: image lines, hinted lines,

tangent lines, angle lines, each line edge defined.

White backgrounds leech line.

Black strengthens.

Don’t believe me?

Compare.

My site’s consistent.

No for–web tools for me;

there’s none presumption–free & cheap.

Consistency’s a look simple and complete.

If some pages demand black,

all pages shall have black.

My poetry belongs to the dark.

Poetry, the art of speech,

weakly interacts with print,

beyond the mechanic vital.

Poetry colour is music colour;

this black is harmony.

I want work awake, not wallpaint.

I want sharp, not brochure.

confidence began

camera phase no camera

christ unwrap mass midwinter childjoy

niece four lightillness shadow

“and your present is” mother body moves

familiar room strange full child marquee

leans back shockniece mother legs looks up

stunned child ecstasy love is

that image

confidence began

always

Galveston tonight

Galveston tonight

the panic official

all placed

three years warned

to couldn’t be arsed inaction

New Orleans

twenty years warned

to couldn’t be arsed inaction

us

no next time

Global Warming time

no next

upset

Upset

distraught at being abandoned

so she hoped

lived in the

raw utility home

he’d given her

she thought to sell it

provided of course

it wasn't a retaliation house

movie stamp & splash akin

movie stamp & splash akin

vacant unident tension i

crude

fuck lack not that common

curdle cold grease bad might

just day why blank

life no grief trad why now blank

betcha bug announce

crude

forty years & ish the A rush

to call another stand

perhaps tense that

do

to do

do

do

puzzle so

anger unfocus

not fuel

my word combiner

aligns numbers

give up

puzzle so d…

you beautiful cascade

for uncomplicate environ

rush time you

no time speak

last year

i bit attraction

you beautiful cascade

but your smile was

let me us

a world restaurant

a hundred miles

an isis

from Sappho

you burn edge beautiful lightening gifted

be bright girls be stunning song be sing colour cut

my was body lithe’s a grand oak failing

winter white is all I’ve now

my heart carries heavy remember my knees carry nothing

in spring I danced the swiftest brightest swan

now I sting & slope but what’s to do

not to age be human that’s madness fantasy

even this sunbright summer dawn itself will die

when sunstun nova burns our world away

& this bright creation slopes cold

to fade to empty this universe itself decease

Martin West’s literal translation of the recently rediscovered Sappho poem was published in the Times Literary Supplement in July 2005.

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