Two Poems by Fargo Tbakhi

MY HEART WHEN IT IS SUFFUSED WITH ENVYPOISON

LEGISLATURES

THE SUN SHINING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS

401KS OF SALIVATING MAYORS

MY EYES SUFFUSED WITH THE REFLECTED DEAD

GUTTED FISH HEAPED ON THE SIDE OF THE DOCK

THE TUNNEL WE DIG TO ANTITEXTUAL BLISS

501C3S OF EXPONENTIAL COMBAT VETERANS

MYTHS RENDERED IN HYPERDIMENSIONAL COLOR

THE FRIENDS I JETTISONED INTO GRAVITY’S INSISTENT RULE

GARROTTES OF CONSULTING FIRMS

PEACECORPSES OF RIOTCOP THERAPISTS

MY SOUL SUFFUSED WITH PHOSPHORESCENCE

MY SOUL IMBUED WITH THE PEACE OF WILD MUSTARD

pantoum-ghazal

Subject located in time. Subject

evaluated. Subject threat reject.

Request information: date of death.

[To be determined.] Ephemeral subject

evaluated “subject_threat.” Reject

request to blossom. Bloom. Subject

to be determined ephemeral-abject

called “aching.” God kill subject-

request: blossom bloom conjecture.

Terror present in affect: subject

called aching “God”. [Kill_inject.]

Within forty-eight hours subject

terror present. Affect project

detrimentally. Detritus subject

within forty eight-hours. Eject

video-cartridge: “prone_subject.”

Detrimental detritus object:

insurgency of alive subject.

Video-cartridge shown. Detect

insurgency of deceased subject.

Insurgency of a live subject infects

request for information: date of death.

Insurgency of deceased. Name: TBAKHI_NISSIM.

Subject located in time rendered un-subject.

FARGO TBAKHI is a queer Palestinian performance artist, a Taurus, and a cool breeze. Find more at fargotbakhi.com.

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