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"This mechanistic world
has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad
List of contents
CONTENTS
THE RIGHT TO MANIFEST MANIFESTO
(Soma)tic 1: ANOINT THYSELF
EMILY DICKINSON CAME TO EARTH AND THEN SHE LEFT
(Soma)tic 2: Séance Your Own Way
kair7: CEDAR
FRANKINCENSE
MUSK
EUCALYPTUS
LEMONGRASS
OPIUM
MYRRH
(Soma)tic 3: WHITE HELIUM
every weakness of the world in ONE LIMB FOR A DAY
(Soma)tic 4: REFLEXUS ADJUSTMENT
MILD ENEMY LOTION
(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread
ONE DAY I WILL STEP FROM THE BEAUTY PARLOR AND ENLIST IN THE FREQUENCY
OF STARLINGS
(Soma)tic 6: Aphrodisios Rumination
SHOVEL GIVES INTO ITS NAME
(Soma)tic 7: Feast of the Seven Colors
distorted torque of FLORA'S red
a little orange bag believe it or not CAN hold all that remains
we're on the brink of UTTER befuddlement yellow hankie style
say it with grEEn paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds
rehab saved his life but drugs saved mine at the blue HOUR
smells of summer crotch smells of new car's purple MAjestY
from the womb not the anus WHITE asbestos snowfall on 911
(Soma)tic 8: Mercury Retrograde FREE FALL
Mercury, God of Thieves
(Soma)tic 9: your BANANA WORD MACHINE
THE DAY AFTER BEING CENSORED I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER SAYING
PATIENCE IS THE HONEST MAN'S REVENGE
(Soma)tic 10: AZTEC TRYPTOPHAN, REPEAT
The Sun God's Daughter Has a Lovely Copper Penis
(Soma)tic 11: YOU IN YOUR SOUP
KICK THE FLUSH
(Soma)tic 12: TAPPING FLESH FOR SAP
ONE thru NINE
(Soma)tic 13: RADIANT ELVIS MRI
separation is natural SHAKE WELL
(Soma)tic 14: your CRYSTAL GRID
Signal and Sway
(Soma)tic 15: BETWEEN CORRESPONDING WAVES
AMERICA YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR DEAD
(Soma)tic 16: ARISE IN YOUR DROSS!
RANCOUR COLLECTS ME BY THE THROAT
(Soma)tic 17: OIL THIS WAR!
Duck Call for Dead Ducks
(Soma)tic 18: MUGGED into poetry
GUESSING MY DEATH 1 thru 14 / XX
(Soma)tic 19: A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON
RESEMBLANCE DEPRECIATION
(Soma)tic 20: A Nude in a BUCKET
Shiva's 4 Hands Kneading the Dough that is Your Face
(Soma)tic 21: TOUCH YOURSELF FOR ART
ROTHKO7, DAY 1 thru 7
(Soma)tic 22: your Zoe Magnifier
hours inside philaDELPHIa
(Soma)tic 23: STUDY FOR SHOPPING MALL TREES
SHOPPING MALL TREES
(Soma)tic 24: ANTENNA JIVE
AN EXORCISM FOR THE HELL OF IT
(Soma)tic 25: AIDS SNOW FAMILY
QUALM CUTTING AND ASSEMBLAGE
(Soma)tic 26: POETRY is DIRT as DEATH is DIRT
I'm TOO Lazy for this World
(Soma)tic 27: CONFETTI ALLEGIANCE
LOVE LETTER TO JIM BRODEY
(Soma)tic Poetics: an interview with Thom Donovan & CAConrad
15 (Soma)tic Reading Enhancements
Notes from 4 (Soma)tic Poetry Workshops
About the author
CAConrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, The Book of Frank, Advanced Elvis Course, (Soma)tic Midge, Deviant Propulsion, and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined. The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift.
Summary
"This mechanistic world...has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."-CAConrad
