Rodrigo Toscano
       State and Sensibility

"I'm alert," says writing "I'm ever alert"

—chorus:  

BUT IS IT?

•
	
Solitude as fortitude—typing rhythm—k'ee k'ee k'ee k'ee k'ee k'ee 

Radiance gullible, ghostly face—k'ee k'ee k'ee  ("blink! blink!") 

text-face
                               
                                 thrum 
thrive 

hellcat
skipping breaths

k'ee k'ee k'ee k'ee

hail! 
hopeful

                   afloat
                   to flail at

fluttering!


IMP.     CONQ.     LIBER.     HAPP.     HUM.   


—negative, Plucked Eagle

               nor that ending 
                                             in 
                           "L" 

       (languidly)


k'ee k'ee 

•

Detect lint-size trace 
Godzilla portion chunk
 
"E"   "Q"   "U" 

"A"
          .goes with.

—nuh uh

              won't stick

no way
no how 
                    that

ending in. 

•

Commmes of a sudden—of a must've but didn't notice can't remember some sort of trick, shrill
ring in the ears ceaseless throbbing deeessstiny

•

Somnambulist 
at the caboose controls

                on the horn
                to central 

"Can we get some traction
here?"

The last four years slipping away
merrily

Gorge, has it been waiting there
all along?

Administration, are we
                                            auto-administrative  

             tussled psyche, cramped
   	         
trampolining—

(the edges are of solid steel) 

I could—

I squak vexed 

I squak
  
             vexed 

•

"I'm alert"
says writing 

barreling down 
the slope

•

Commmes—of a—  

                 what's also 
    			
                               scuttling 

(shyly)

                 away

•

By love 

By hate 

By whim

By fate

By smitten & bitten

By special appearance

By open invite

About to close

How script feels about it

How I feels about it

•

Fervor

                      Cognition

Imago

                      History

Dr. Grip

                      Arboribus


The brilliant beryllium blue

petals 

              hailing down 

•

TRACE-CHUNK 


k'ee k'ee 


•

(little hymnal
                    sketched out
                                        on the front cart
                                                                  just before blinking)

O pirated time
O sovereign allowance
O dukedom of dorky moments
O lunk-around of liminal spaces


Dump the conceit.

Dump you.

              (figured
               that it
               dimply
               smiled to gesture) 

a brittle belief 
in.

•

Commmes of a sudden—of a must've but didn't notice can't remember some sort of trick, shrill
ring in the ears ceaseless throbbing deeessstiny.

                                                            ‹solo›     ‹dogged›     ‹volition›

Commmes of a sudden—of a must've / but didn't notice (can't remember (some sort of trick)),
shrill ring in the ears (ceaseless) throbbing deeessstiny.

                                                            ‹blink›    ‹always›     ‹I do first›

Commmes—of-a-sudden-of-a-must've-but-didn't-notice-can't-remember-some-sort-of-trick
shrill-ring-in the-ears-ceaseless-throbbing deeessstiny.

                                                            ‹trick›    ‹in the full tricked›     ‹sense of the word›

Commmes—of a sudden—of a must've—but didn't notice—can't remember—some sort of
trick—shrill—ring—in the ears—ceaseless—throbbing—deeessstiny.

                                                            ‹te boto "I toss you"›   ‹te boto—"I toss you"›    ‹away›



New York, July 2004


first published by The Poker (#6), June 2005.