KRISTI MAXWELL


Says Otherwise

 

I am not bringing people in today

Enjoy this

in the way in which it is

To be enjoyed


The hand comes down a weather

A ham hitches itself to a bud


The ass-y bloom

Add up to a people

Saddle up and ride a people to their image

Their we-ledge


The peephole says otherwise


The peepholes sate an eye

Dead batteries do their death on a desk

They are lean there, lain there


Does a vote constitute (a) people?

Here


A battery-ied self is charged

A battered self is charged at


A new check card like a new check card


I require of my attendance to do its thing

in the stadium of that guffaw

I require of your attendance we un-tendon

this poem


That I make good

by tending my saying

Do we count as a people


and what?

To spread a one around with a this

A representation of black hair

A thing for dusting, glutted with dust



TYPO 11