[Newspoetry] s n o w e v i d e n c e

[andy gricevich]

s n o w e v i d e n c e

       --andy gricevich & rick burkhardt

In Madison County, Illinois, the homeless get a one-way bus ticket
to Florida.
In this weather you can hear
clear                           (to)

These trees can't contain the money. Does
one mean to learn? One is like the

whole, and that's reciprocal,
to our great chagrin.



Buttressed by need, local elections appear to
reference the recognizable (as if, glancing, you
thought it, and then there WAS a
person there). In all likelihood (the critical

mass of business development will not exist until
it, and the costs of its reversal, are
considered reversible, or stopped) watch program. I dribble

(like the lobotomized inheritors of the cabinets of yesteryear,
leering like decaying anemones) in a tightening radius in
a tightening square, its border progressively encrusted with
increasingly jagged crackling and lacerating machines (in their 
prestidigitation
of names). The plan is to save education by

giving the rich their money back (in
a flash, thousands on ice begin to
refuse to invest). You (they're on skates

which mark time) can spend if you want
to. Agents--nutcrackers--march disingenuously from the cabinet,

accompanied by dromedaries (until the funding for the most
basic operations grows enormous, omnipresent, invisible, gaseous, silent) 
and
commas, appointing everyone in sight who's managed to remain
above the ground of the six figures on which
you got your start (until the funding grows silent).

If ethics is the bad conscience of
morality (and knowledge, and facts in general),
then the commonplaces stuck to the word
"politics" are the unreflective babble assaulting the
language which only the uncertainty as to
its meaning can offer. Here I should

cite my sources: metaphoric and igneous rock, argument
as something to win, the objects of science,
statistics by machines about machines for machines, the
insistence that everything be used, a permeating vapor
of rectangular signs (such as highways and police
storefronts--anything to jar the reader's perception of
the public into the outdoors in general). In

this weather, you (whose exercise must be programmed) can
hear clear to the bank. The West Bank. Of
the European Union, an organization designed to generate news.


that's
        what
you

        said
last
        time

picture
          of
tommy

           thompson
memorial
             poorhouse

imagine
           these
faces

         on currency. And where does that get you?

Comfy irony. A word is not home. Comfy words:

In this weather, you can hear Fujimori
casting ballots as he waddles into the
sea.
                  AND

      (what's)          (left)

                   (out)

                                  12.22.-12.31.00


note: the last three words should be underlined as well as parenthesized. 
also, the capitalized word "WAS" in "...there WAS a person there" should be 
italicized and not capitalized. I'm not sure how to do that on hotmail.
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