Oceanaire (Seafood) Restaurant,
Minneapolis, July 2, 2000

     Postmidsummer, long evening
     seeing through a poisoned brain:
               “I drink only black coffee.”

     Odysseus said it, all
               his tools he wrote
     for himself, listening
               to Sirens’ songs.

     Writer’s mind, drunkard’s mind. 
     Buzzing around, no center.

     Why not scheduled, 
               controlled experience
     of “mile high”?

     “Money doesn’t get cold.”
          (Latinos in St. Paul restroom)

     “liberate the fish!”
               (toilet imagining)
     toilet is tiled and clean
               sloppy and writing

     outside of perception,
               this real mind
     at dusk, writing all down 

     stare of the invalid eye-beam,
               perception of the REAL

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