Thomas Oliver

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Jan 2024

Guard The Dam

Guard the dam and watch out for moles and gophers
Watch out for wet dogs
And muddy hill slides
The slit neck swine in the basement
Covered up with children singing
Be really be careful of bent edge noses of inner triangle
There's so much broken glass on the ground
Of who can toothache this stone age mirror
With its cannibal Stonehenge equine legs
I've got a horse's kneecap outback
Its the coin sunrise slot from o'l gumball town
whirlpool machine spinning luck down and down
rodeo who's the first to drown
Bleach socks change
Attached the back wall first
Come back in spring
Attach an anchor to the noose
Wait for the last step
Arrival of the train jangles
Itself open fish bone jaw like
of sherbet tingles
fox
open oven
I can help you solidify the jam
How to explain direct action in a round boat
thus we spoke in riddles
Elliptical mattress
Ceramic cup Maître d'
Lap service fruit still on stem
Sheet sail so high
Crisp packet chip noises
With super collider nightgown messages
I want come up for air
back bends touch your nostrils to your toe
32 degrees
heat or angle?
Sticks rolling down hill
on the drummers ankles
a thick fat wad of time in the
Trumpet players sock
a reallll greasy knuckle
a fuzz of tooth.
shit,
where
did that 1 go
Did you here?
no? what?
she's already in Germany?
a big room, overlooks the river
what river?
Have you ever been to the sea?
Have you sat on the sand naked with a beach full of tiny waking crabs
its getting dark now, I can see the moon
she can see my ass
cameras barely work
the crabs will be here forever
and we need light to get home
but wait,
that's it
The sea shanty sung, called, prayed,
from the cotton ship
Have you ever sat in the ocean in the rain and cried?
I am in your river, out the window in a small oval boat
full with crustacean friends, and no clothes.