The Poetry of
Michael G. Khmelnitsky

 it's just after
                  seven o'
                             clock
   & th maître d' whiskers to me
      conspiratorially:
                  there
                         will
                             be
      a cage match
      on th beach
         (bets start at only
                                 50 CUC
                          each
            simulacra
        v. simulation


meanwhile—
      beer
            beer
                  beer
          (¿beer-bar o bar-bear
              münchen / bayern
                 & beaulieu
                   (as bad a fad
                    as baudrillard
       infinite regress
   à la carte
        (kein ausfahrt
         fünf thaler reproductions
                        save face
                  no longer


th eye is beset
by ember days & months
            (ou est la différence?
   [
    it floats in a half
       full
           grass
                    en l'enfer de
                        typogrfie polo
                                     naise
          hillman novena
       uhlan solecism
              ¿cui bono missal
                    coup de foudre или
                    coup de foutre‽


langouste de mortis
  nicht gefunden
        pandora's bocks eye pee
        nvlddmkm.sys
                           temic
                                  detritus
                             calle de
                  mercaders
                       & correct @ PP
  la marche russe   
 (lamanche
  фарш oder farce
          & la bête noire d'inclusion
                       R___ R________ says
             they should be enjoyed in their youth


G_______ drives th car
              eine kleine vagina
              plays on th beach
       (unashamed of revealing 
           her face
                      примета
                      primera y última
                use id or
                lose id
                        when suddenly "young lust
                  comes
                      on th radio
                          & i think RE: him
           or "la cumparsita plays
                        & i think RE: her


how little
            meine colon / bracket
                              (bracken
                                         conveys
                     says my talking wound
                    (by now al
                                  most totalement
                                  rehealed
                               & ready to reopen
                                  under new management
                              @ a marmot's no
           tice & th history
                     (hystery mystery
              floods
        back


¿ist die narrative fundamentally
                       freudian
      ¿can you make an
        intellectual pt.
                    with
                         out
                make a political eine
                                             I think
           walking slowly away from
                      his ap
                          artment
                      hearing the door shut
  closed
                    (first th lock
                           then th chain