Multitudes by Margaret Christakos

BRINGING

    In bringing in this gorilla
    which lurches in2 soliloquy
    This gorilla’s bewildered
    This gorilla has a body so different …
    it can’t b in th room
    lacking or having
    a strand of esophagus
    garnished in something timid
    This elephant
    This shark, mastodon
    Purple loosestrife n leeches
    elevated in an elevator
    then vapour.

    It’s a room, in
    camera with polyester,
    fluorescence, aluminum
    Park squirrels bioswarm th fibreglass
    everybody knows it’s inebriating
    There’s alutnarat
    U wake one morning Phyllis
    Diller wrestles a lion, familial reunion, then
    voluminous fire gulfs or engorges
    th community centre Local bricks
    with explosive bellies arrow
    Toxic smoke talks abt how lovable we r it
    won’t shut up but exudes …

    different
    deeffinrt
    tnereffid

    Rows of chairs engrommetted in a factory
    backroom so workers can surf
    People
 online n chew Nicorettes It’s
    adolescent lemur stuck in th stall
    sideways Flock of
    cormorants n juice boxes
    donated by Nestlé Sleeves bleached
    properly Antihistamines distributed
    impressive Seniors paying federal
    taxes without question.

    I so enjoy breathing alongside
    a scenario of refuge when 2 zoo-born
    giraffes go up in a figure 8
    firework, limegreen leaf bits
    showering a petite rainfall on
    my April hairless forearm.

    We r as abellov as Nature is.

    There r flecks of sanguinity in our sideburned
    quietude, dusky institched voices while mature elk herds
    ligature the building lobbing homeopathy against
    multiple extinction rumours This Dictaphone
    this Morse
    this Spirograph Kaypro n Letraset
    peel black its backing
    then poster Burn ur bra
    Take back th night Hold others 2 sluggish
    account Believe in rainforest
    4 th trees 4 what they r
    bringing in –

    In bringing in this gorilla
    which lurches in2 soliloquy
    This gorilla’s bewildered
    This gorilla has a body so different
    it can’t b in th room
    lacking or having
    a strand of esophagus
    garnished in something timid
    If it could b, it would arise that way, but I think we agree
    it cannot.

GIRL IN PARK WITH HULA

    Haey, u know
    who is watching, hippie-girl. I fit in2
    u like a waist
    inside a hoop yahe yaeh hyae
    Famous waist, a
    hula hoop, she loves u
    ahye haye yeah.

    If melancholia, or pleasure, encircles, with its rhythmhtyhr
    n its ringingnignir
    as long as it is gnivomoving, it
    displaces a plain 1970s telling.

    But I don’t think melancholia, or
    pleasure, is th problem exactly. I’m thinking

    ur summoning a park
    around that hoop, n a city
    around that park, n concentric rings of wifi around that city
    n well y wouldn’t u with those magique
    contempo-hips

    which r a nuisance
    th multitudes want 2 ride under, actually, I’m not dead yet, sister,
    or have u riding us.

    After all, bodies beckon bodies with their gninaomoaning.

    I wonder if th immediate seesaw ng of th present
    in a half-kempt hipster park
    is th hula hyae ehay heay
    is th hoop that
    rather than encircling u
    keeps ur cunt far from th commons, 4

    we know it’s not just me on my rickety bench, a
poet
4 god’s sake,
    performing something really special n
    retro.

THE FOLLOWING USER
[SAYS THANK YOU TO MN RENOVATOR FOR THIS USEFUL POST:]

    Warm air: A = in, B = in. Hot water: A = out,
    B = in. Electric: A = in, B = out. Turns on th blower
     
    as soon as flames 4 heat. From a drafty back study
    central exposed front room well away from th windows.
     
    I was having exactly th same old n malfunctioning
    problem. Ur own personal load-test data is maybe switching
     
    some pre-set limit. Don't forget is something
    we should do right LOL . So there I go re-engineering a gizmo
     
    that isn't broken again with short plenum 8 cm below
    th damped-off joints. Colder air is denser more oxygen
     
    n slits fresh. Inducer has vibration 2 it but I cranked
    2 Hi. I just KNOW somebody's going 2 tell me 2 check
     
    th manual.

IT’S LIKE I COULD DO SOMETHING
    for Lena Dunham

    it’s like i could do something with my