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Jonelle Seitz: The Mopac Improvement Project

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

Stranger, your Chucks turned up at the toes, 
I want you to Google me and find nothing 
because once over anything, a person needs 
someone who doesn’t leave cabinet doors 
hanging open overhead;    

a rowboat, a tin-can 
telephone, a still animal (context: a sea of extracts).  
 
You: Compose sad tweets about censorship.  
Me: Drive parallel to the train, keeping within    
the boundaries of its length. 
 
This performance will be a gift, its gardens 
              interior (context: domestic). 
Its program notes will be the construction signs, the dramaturge 
          unknown, or maybe a 0s+1s machine 
           (context: Alphaville). 
 
Our passage will be at night, after the football 
+ bat traffic is reabsorbed by the residences, 
the orange bulbs burning vigilantly + the traffic cones 
our ushers, lights down, lights up, another place.

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Poetry, Poetry 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Jonelle Seitz, Poetry, Poetry 94

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