[Realpoetik] Aaron Kunin

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Sun Dec 27 14:21:44 PST 2009


CLEANING MUST FAIL




Good spot to commit suicide.

Nothing "to" distract, interrupt

Or change your mind, little mess and

Someone "to" pick

It up tomorrow.  "The" best place

Is a hotel



Room.  (Bathtub.)  Remember "the" poem

By Lisa Jarnot where she took

"The" paper that Jim Buckhouse wrote

For undergrad

Intro "to" philosophy class

About whether



He could be wrong "about" being

In pain "and" changed "it" "to" Paris?

I'm doing "the" opposite "of"

"That."  This little

Body I uncover without

Expectation



"Of" pleasure, intimate but not

Sexual, like handling someone's

Stomach, "or" has "that" been rezoned?

All professors

"Of" English should take "a" vow "of"

Celibacy.



Do you even enjoy "the" things

"You" call "pleasure"?  "I" was tempted

"To" whisper "do you" love me "or"

"Do you" merely

"Love" "your" work?  Both varieties

Are restricted.



Anyone who "has" made "a" list

Knows how difficult "it" can "be"

"To" "do" "work."  My job "is" finding

Curves, overlaps

"And" confused "by" "things" "that" used "to"

Turn "you" on, links



"On" "the" burning necklace, without

Activating "it" recedes, rough

"And" smooth interests "of the" flesh

Withdrawn from "you"

"I" resented "the things" "I" loved

"And" couldn't feel.



Only "the" cold recognizes

"The" appearance "of" "love."  Gelid

"The" heart, wrapped "in" "a" plastic sheet

Acknowledges

"The" power "and" extent "of love."

"You" "turn" "me" "on"



"But" "you" don't make "me" laugh.  "You don't"

"Turn me on but you" "do" something

Better: "you" influence "me."  "My"

"Turn" "is a" kind

"Of" uniqueness ("only").  "Only"

Criminals know



"How" "to" "enjoy" life.  Change "it" back

"To" "pain."  "Do" "not" restate "do not"

Resuscitate.  Visualize

Myself "in" "a

Hotel room" when "the" door opens

"And" "pain" walks "in"!



*Aaron Kunin* is the author of *Folding Ruler Sta*r (2005) and *The Mandarin
* (2008), both from Fence Books.  A new chapbook, *Cold Genius*, is
available from The Physiocrats.  He lives in Los Angeles.

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