Throughout the month of October there has been a surge in poetic cell phone text messages between my friends and I. Though most of the messages have been communications between me and Jeffrey Brennan, who is now living in New York, other friends make appearances. Perhaps there is a psycho/social theory developing in there that correlates between conducted poetic behavior perceived and responsive poetic behavior. Again with the usual, or rather consistent, disclaimers: I tried to copy the information from the Verizon Chocolate phone verbatim, thus explaining the poetic lines created. In most cases of the “Sent” folder, I’ve put forth information that proves to be embarrassingly forward. In any case, here are the top-most highlights from October, some of which will probably end up in another chapbook down the line.
Inbox
From: Jeff B – RWU
McCain’s face make me
want to punch his lights
out.
Oct 7, 9:47 pm
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From: Jeff B – RWU
We should trade blood in
big bags.
Oct 7, 10:08 pm
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From: George – RWU
Have my own sirens as
well; they enter and exit
the ER across from the
library. Goes well with the
brain skins and the six
legged rats.
Oct 9, 8:02 pm
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From: Jeff – RWU
We are in the belly off a
terrible machine. And the
machine is dying.
Oct 10, 10:10 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Creeley and HUGE hair at
this southern dentist.
The carpet is a book
about the bible and the
flowers are a faked grey.
Oct 13, 1:34 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
The bill lee freeway.
Under dungeon siege of
marigolds with their love-
butter, weeds.
Oct 15, 11:13 am
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Houston flight just
cleared most of the uglies.
Thank god for Houston.
Oct 15, 12:28 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
I put my number on my
Craigslist ad. BIG
MISTAKE! 50 year olds
from the Bronx keep
calling. But I feel like I’m
22. Will as in
Shakespeare as in big
Willie style.
Oct 15, 12:33 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
The sludge at Newark
train stop is breathtaking.
Literally it is a living thing
taking breaths.
Oct 15, 3:08 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Huge grey, like a sky, coal
freight. Wisconsin
central. But DO NOT
HAMMER ON CARS.
Oct 15, 3:31 PM
*
From: Jeff B – NYC
Crooked shutters: the
New Jersey State tree. “I
am not myself. Don’t say
anything to anybody.”
Oct 15, 3:56 pm
*
From: Dave Prague – Texas
There’s something very
surreal about getting
ready for a date that
you know you’re getting
stood up on.
Oct 18, 7:54 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Just in case God isn’t
dead, our astronauts
carry side-arms.
Oct 19, 11:07 am
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Thanks for thinking of
me, F. N. The conductor
of the train told me he’s
reading “Into the Wild.” In
his face I read: “I want to
die.”
Oct 19, 12:16 pm
*
From: Kevin Frazier Cell
DOES YEZZ LIKE DEM
CHEDDA CHEESE?
Oct 21, 6:20 pm
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From: Jeff B – NYC
Plane next to two loud
hicks. They are are drawling
on about carpet.
Oct 23, 10:22 am
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From: Jeff B – NYC
A whole bunch of Chick-Fil-
A management just
walked into the mall. I
hope they talk to me
about my purchase. It’s
so lonely down here.
Oct 28, 3:08 pm
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Sent
To: Rabia
Hahahaha. I am small here in
Phila. Uneducatedly docile.
Oct 6, 4:55 pm
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To: Jeff B – RWU
My neighborhood has its
own sirens. They go wee
ew wee ew. Great plot
device. Goes well with the
litter.
Oct 6, 7:07 pm
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To: Jeff B – RWU
This is like Lil Wayne land.
Never goes away. Cahtah
baby.
Oct 6, 7:10 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Yeah in another life.
Reincarnation as
persistent hedonist lover.
Oct 7, 10:18 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Life is so true and
stressful. Blerah. Maybe I’ll
end up back in RI or mass
or Maine where where it’s slower
and easier. Where friends
and fam are. Shux.
Oct 10, 1:15 pm
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To: Ashley Mason – Hatfield
Walking the hood streets
like a rat but not like a
hood rat.
Oct 10, 9:15 pm
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To: Jeff B – RWU
This reading setup is all
metal and flash. Like
Kanye. But no Chicaga.
Oct 11, 8:04 pm
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To: Bianca
God damnd babes. This
place screams exclusion
anyway.
Oct 11, 8:11 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
I love the hookers down
the street as much as the
cars that stop for them.
The ones where the
driver’s a guy and he’s
already got two girls.
Spiladelphia.
Oct 11, 11:07 pm
*
To: Alexander Ruggeri
Epiphany in absurdism is
weird.
Oct 12, 2:43 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
It’s 78 degrees here. Sign
of wolves and
hesitancies.
Sent: Oct 13, 2:23 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
BAD ATTRACTIVE OR
BAD PERSONALITY?
Sent: Oct 13, 3:02 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
7 pc meals are NOT great
family values.
Sent: Oct 13, 7:14 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Hey MY BOSS. King of
the burgers.
Sent: Oct 15, 7:33 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Goodbye hope and skillful
creation for the gone
have come back at last.
Barbarians. Turned to.
Sent: Oct 15, 7:45 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Bodies these blank ones
all waiting like slugs like
doppelgangers and
doppelgangsters too. It’s a
cool grit limelight
reckoning-enhanced. Blood
on the inside.
Sent: Oct 15, 9:42 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
The M’n'M knockoffs in
trail mix bags have great
new colours. Got to make
it new.
Sent: Oct 19, 12:24 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Aw. I’d kidnap you in the
process. Like how lead
reacts to other metals.
Oct 20, 7:40 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
My heart is a wyvern for
you. Vessels flapping. I
beg to understand your
words your thoughts.
Oct 22, 2:23 am
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To: Ashley Mason – Hatfield
Soulish craze. Dwarven
standoff. Mead to the
head!
Sent: Oct 22, 2:24 am
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To: Catherine Chipman
Cockatrice bend down like
Rick Ross give thanks.
Sent: Oct 22, 2:25 am
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Missed stupid train have
to wait as stupid loafer
for 20 stupid minutes.
Sent: Oct 22, 11:22 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Oak Lane white people are
the worst ones. Myself
not included.
Sent: Oct 25, 10:36 am
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Sadsop Philly fans
entering the entirety of
drenchd.
Sent: Oct 27, 11:10 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Halloween wig sale sign ‘n’
a drum pounding myopic
and a Christian
chordophile with full set
of keys. And a Mexican
guitarist grin-dep in all
cold rain aftermath.
Sent: Oct 28, 1:28 pm
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To: Krissy – RWU
Philadelphian grim. A collar
worth donning the days
we forget life is a prize
waiting to happen.
Sent: Oct 28, 1:31 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Winter chill. Reminds me of
Chicago. Or struggles to
class.
Sent: Oct 28, 7:08 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Having kids is great I
mean depressing stressful
miserable cuz it reminds
parents of long-gone
ENERGY.
Sent: Oct 28, 7:12 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Yes. You seem like the
build-a-nest-and-watch-b
ad-horror-movies type.
Sent: Oct 28, 8:54 pm
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To: Jessica Beautiful
Don’t come here then.
Furnace broke. Frozen
bedland.
Sent: Oct 29, 12:29 am
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To: Jeff B – NYC
I hope so. There’s a guy in
a bunny suit here.
Massive crowds. I’m so
screwed.
Sent: Oct 29, 9:36 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
I shiver too much. Make
me wana scream oo
Sent: Oct 29, 10:31 pm
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To: Bianca – Borders
Hahaha downtown where
the streets run wet.
Sent: Oct 29, 11:16 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
I am the penn the smirk
Sent: Oct 29, 11:42 pm
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To: Jeff B – NYC
Right now Philly is how
Europe always is.
Sent: Oct 31, 5:08 pm
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