i never asked for this
you would say
why wouldn’t you ask
there was everything for you
to be asking for it
opening a document
i never answered for this
didn’t have the nerve
had some courage
riding the wave
couldn't cover
couvrir cobrir
i never said never
never took a leap of faith
followed the lead
didn’t connect the dots
two together
no strings attached
i never appropriated the discourse
scratched the surface
used words
other than as intended
i never compared
paired up with a doubtful
outstayed my welcome
wore someone out
on the outskirts
beware of worn out threads
said to myself
thread in the city
said Nastya
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english is my tretyesecond language
when you enter tretyakovskaya galereya
you address the smell
который обдает spelling
you spill your focus
to get out of
cause the costs are high
stakes are stuck
kicking into gear
a giraffe has taken up space
the one that wasn't up to your ears
recreating a situation
black shipment
at the edges of a container
nearing a minute
on a night of close regarding
turn rewrite
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life with shorts
of sorts
sorting out
sustaining
intertwining
mingling
подмигивая
подсматривая
life with peers
getting lemons
getting away with
offshore
ошибочно
о бочки
stumbling
mumbling
несумятицу
bear it
then go to bc
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normalerweise muss man нормальные слова юзать
usually i should know which words to use
usually someone is at ease with words
when they follow them in an orderly manner
usually words come in clusters
they are built into a snowman
who is also a noman, sophia says
usually a form of a norm is enormous
then a mouse swings by
usually i get lemons
with limits of words
prone to imitation
normally i keep erasing this word
usually i have to come up with a more usual speech
speech in russian is almost bitter
without a go-go
it leaks out unbidden
until someone puts up a wall
someone, bitte
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Vestiges by Black Sun is out for preorder from Asterism
we'll also have a launch in LA 💔 at the end of March
(5 of my poems included, including the one about notation speaker)
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are you stranded on a strand
are you estranged from a stranger
are you странный в стране
are you стульчик без ручки
is that a mode
is that a мода
is that an opposite
from дома
ist das ein haus gegenüber
ist das ein zuhause
gibt's da eine maus
gibt's net
is that a net of a person
is that a scope
is it predicted
is it dictatorship
is it noted by word
is it smashed at the bottom
is it вот он
novyy ton
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copy all right
copy shift delete
copied lit
unconscious lead
copy крышка
copy кошка
copy kot
kot abgesetzt
kot i kaki
kak ne tot
kolya copy
copy valera
copy varvara
copy in various forms
copy worm
worm into a hole
a whole bunch of copy
копи пи
пипикопя
копить copy
copy ру
copy de
delat' copy
delat' miaw
delat' must
musste musya
muskel kopie
muskel koten'ka
copy slide
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a day stops at one
once
in a while
freitag nach eins
eines tages
ein anderes
либо
a day doesn't start
before one day
befreundet
bedarft
до беды
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native speakers don’t traipse and trip
they trudge a trunk
they stick with nature
they stay naive
at one with
sticking
if they move away and remove
they turn into notation speakers
or else novelty speakers
or else spooks and notionals
they bear their notes as instruments
they drop the rudiments of rude nativity
who will pick up those droppings
they build on, drill
and cry krüß kot, cats
they say shibboleth with a ш
and keep going through borders
they put on language anzüge
and find umzüge a drag
notation speaker aka notional
walled emotional
good at gratitude
wise owl of acknowledgments
speaker of notes
picker pecker
they packed off
they couldn’t bear it
they pick up where they left off
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i am tired then
i am tired now
now and then
now i am more tired
then i will be tired again
then i am tired now
now i am tired from meowing
there's a noun for tiredness
there is no noun for thenness
there will be no pause
or then menopause
or then my pause
or then editing in a pause
or then unediting
undeciding
undying
then my skin will show
then i will show no sign
then a sign emerges
then i merge from now to then
then and now
then i will be wow
then волк
then i will turn the page
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i am sehr to supervise
i am hearing things
i am positioning among
i am not unlike soll man
i am many sense
i am making since
things you have been there
seen what is here
here is a blueprint
синий синопсис
seen is a print
next please
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