Thomas Oliver

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October 2023

God Tiger Needs Chemical Works
What kind of king laser cat
Hollows out halogen tubes
Undecipherable thoughts
Last lamps in the rain
In between a mess of porn stacks
And sticky mix tapes
Towards
Temporary tattoos from Mecca
Allah's white marble floor
New city store
Down from the mountain
With trumpets of rainbow fire
Fix
Burn
Sing
Shiatan's Verses
Death's Angel
Water slide of breath
The Equator
A circumference of nipples
A flat border from Budapest
To Bucharest
Down hill for horseback
Framptom comes alive at Arrowshead gate
Keep checking the oven is off
That Beethoven was real
We are a string of emails
In between stardust
Between vacuum chords
And erotic quasars
Hot Milky-Way
Make it to Mars
And
Forget the poor
Get ready for Valentine's Day
Adjust the antenna in your anus
I want the resolution of Hubble for just one
Hug


Today

I needed all of today
Just to get over
Yesterday


Order

Jelly plasma phlegm
–Language
Hydraulic
Conduit of spat meaning
Spanish is a slippery slide
Slavic is concrete and steps out
Of the womb
But,
Music spins baby tornadoes
Between black hairs
In teeth comb
Sounding of loss
Of Spring
Wooden floorboards
White down pipes
Tear ducts
Metal behind enamel

Guitar open mouthed speaks
Everything inside with metal floss:
missing the clicking sound of a seat belt
Of one extra set of lungs
Near
Creating carbon dioxide
That gets inhaled
And exhaled back;
A low and high tide
Of shared air
Chewing the same meaning
Being on one point
A song of unison notes
One dot
Till Coda

Till curtains
Till making a bed
A magic trick of covers
Roll over when done
Reveal your tricks
With no gloves on
Reveal your soft under belly
A target for goodbye


500%

Community radio keeps me calm
High beam against loneliness
Eyeless voices
Warm candelabras
Guides to slow breathing
To press play at the same
Time as cheap coffee
Stimulants to relax
Looks like I got the cross-eyed current
The roundabout Synapse
The fleet of twenty thoughts
The conversation about owl vomit
Scooped up by foreign films programs
French with no subtitles
Bath tub bats
It could be worse
The tap's fixed
Possession is cursed
Holy ghost
Your lyrics hang in my curtains
Guillotine in the peripheries
Love paraphernalia
Like trying to jump off a roundabout
Tail bites
No more dental records in ass cheeks
Just your favorite records
Flat wax whirlpools
Donation needle sucks out the sound
Crying catalysts
Free parking for melancholy
It could be worse
Archangels are still jealous
Toot their horns in envy
You showed them up
All halo
Incredible
Shining
Turn up the volume
More headlights
Slow down 500%
Keep this moment
It could be worse