SHINY HANDLE OF PRE-PLASTIC RESIN

'Man eats meat, and he grows fur.' 

Vasily Grossman



i fall open
like a book
at its well read 

& favourite pages

or i try to . . .

but everything flows 

& i give myself up

to the noise & the not

to the forever & the never

or i try to . . .

& zen nihilism reaches into the drawer

for a hand-me-down no-name kitchen knife

with a shiny handle of pre-plastic resin

&

slices my good ham thin

in a porterhouse dream

or it tries to . . .

POOR MR UGLY CHAIR

dinosaurs
extinction event

t i m e

oil
lovecrafts artic civilisation 
extraction
industrial revolution
by-product resin
dye & design
factory injection mould
trade agreement
pricing spreadsheet
packaging 
advertising

  l
  o
  n
  g

    journey
      in
        a
          container

          on
          a
          container 
          ship

          then a shop

and now it sits on my lawn

ugly chair

i use it some

but really - i
             cant
             even
             burn
             the
             ugly thing

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