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Cows are Vegetables
Reclined among cushions, I name the pasture green,
and so it is: the beast consents to leaf and stem.
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4 movements
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Movement I
Taxonomies of Want
Classification, appetite, protocol, pasture thinking, and the soft violence of naming.
02
Preliminary Notes from the Pasture
1. Opening Assumption
Green was declared
03
Two Mornings and Two Nights (text message, unedited)
This is what I sent:
Not to sound crazy,
04
Tickle with a Side of Pickles
He said—you’re too starchy.
05
Puffin, My Peanut
I can feel the sweetness
oozing (in my mouth)
06
Hungry, Dear?
Where pigeons
dance their chaotic ballet,
07
A Seedless Garden
A poem about land use
(I can see your building now).
Movement II
Remedies and Instructions
Care rituals, debt, intoxication, kitchen procedure, and the body trying to remain useful.
08
A Cock for Asclepius
Remember those little ducklings?
Blue Dawn on TV,
09
Plants Do Not Drink
Curiously,
I do not think
10
My Truck
Your trusty steed warms
up like Jacob Elordi
11
Hercules
The only gay bar in Helsinki is in a mall.
Third floor, past the food court,
12
Dear Robyn
I hope you are well.
And that the hit Broadway Musical
13
Vegan Chicken Wings
I’m on the couch this counts twelve minutes
twelve minutes says the box twelve minutes
Movement III
Contact
Touch, municipal desire, embarrassment, proof, humor, and the administrative afterlife of intimacy.
14
What I Would Do to You
I want to get my hip
sockets broken
15
Shucks I'm the Cuck
With willingness, premeditation—
a predilection—
16
585
(the facts and the ruling don’t agree)
17
Contact Tracing
1. Case Definition
Contact is any moment
18
Spread
Did I have any when I left?
when I came?
19
Steamer Theory at 10 A.M.
I was not supposed to be there.
Start there.
20
No Return Label
I came home at ten in the morning
with the night still on me,
21
I Just Wish That
We would all acknowledge that
I've sometimes pooped.
22
Should I Touch It
You know when you start
that first vine that grows
23
Fuck
I am laid in bed
to rest—
Movement IV
Compost and Weather
Rot, weather, tenderness, errata, aftermath, and the objects left humming after the scene ends.
24
Compost Confessional
I told the zucchini
my secrets last night.
25
Buttered Butterflies
They are not symbols.
26
Errata for Warm Spirals
1. Shape Notice
“Swirl” was used colloquially
27
Cinnamon Buns (Miami)
It really was as I wanted,
I know apathy,
28
Coda
In the beginning, things were made
because something had to happen.