Joshua Martin

Personalized Architectural Boundaries

 

        t/u/r/n

s,l,a,c,k   =   city jAr

          / jaunty cigar

                 holder fuzz

                            bOx

            manatee / ,

prescription IN a

                   ShEll

         [hawk, plug, hug,

          snug, snarky

                   electrical

                   cavity],

 

\ - - -

   break PaD

       SAw dUsT

abracadabra unity

                    FLuSH

                           - - - \,

,

    striped pajama

hUnK    :

             H

             A

             R

             K ! ,

‘whose

 bow-legged scrunchy

                 manicured

 Sunday blemishes

?’ , = = = = = / / / / /

            (((

                ark

                coverlet

                arch

                enemy

scotty dOg

                     orange

                     pEEl

                             ))),

, ; / /

       ! / ? /

            e,a,c,h

revulsion > > >

                      escaping

       flattened

               engagement

r/i/n/g                       avoidance

          w-e-a-t-h-e-r-e-d

ScOpE

             [sun=dial] / / / /

    leaking punching

        bAg \ - - - h

                         E

                         l

                         D outer

realm spherical

       alphabetic Coventry

  - - - / :

            hOP

            hOOp

                   sPooN

sickening          malfunction,

                                      ing

       diatribe

                       rOOf

/ / = | corner PoP eNvY

                                 bLaST!!!!! | =

twisting familial

           angst  =  /

\ ,

   | junky squad

            cAr

hemp         beaver

                     t/r/a/p \ , , |

 

[sinister / oracle /

            darkening

    guitar            r-i-f-f

,

  /    black=

              BOARD

    skiing          mantle

(

  peevish

              )

. . . . .

      momentum

CHUM  ,  milkman

          shivering

pasted       whimsy =

        [shirt, glass,

         window pane]

, , =

    (‘what touching

          mint

                 twirling

handlebar          tweak

                           ?’) ) ) ) ) [

\

   guesthouse pointedly

sPRee    =   / , e/d/g/e  / ,

          h=o=o=k

h=e=a=v=e

 

             puking colored

Zodiac           endives

 

        , . . . . .

 

splinter      /      dynamite

                               [,

            variable

                 combover rattling

mountaineer  

                    cOmBo

; | = wah-wah-wah /

             bee-bop-shop-drop / / / / /

; | ,           ‘ache, mind &

                 reverberating hoist

!’ , ,

       double jested

             entendre , ,  = =

 

making rapid eyeLID

           farTS

   , speedometer locality

                  FaSt

                  fOOd

                          scarf , [

o/n/c/e

         balmy ;;;;;

un=

    install=ed

 

 

Last Supper Pancake Bliss

 

            mangy

            millennium

            mambo cursive wallop

[!]              : : : : :             remembrances

              spreading ethnographic

              chapter breaks   - - - therapeutic

                                               torpedo - - -

> splinter

          without cartographer’s wheelie < ,

                          diverse bitterness

                                           prevails

           (!)

              counting crisis bicycles

              , wearing an access

                                     point

                                     sketch,

sitting > > > > > declaring

                                         skullduggery

                                                mimeograph

                                                cloudbursts

< < < < < , expected furniture

                   diagrams : : : : : all-around

                                             troubling

                                             rationalization

                                             shambles : : : : :

         semi-

              dimensional toothache splashing

              preventing teachable hurricanes

, shovels grazing

  navel summation, 

                            the blues conditioned

                            to ween > > > > >

                                          residual desire could

                                          emerge through vomiting

                                                    cultural upheaval

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sullied Notational manicures

 

somewhat the sandwich despairs of floating

        = [pontificating monsoon]

                     = ((((( louse ))))) = =

pretzel almond dynamic

,     | jUmP , , , dogmatic dragonfly

        summation cheesy guillotine |

:

 p

 O

 p         gOeS

                    the STuDy

   rOOm                   : ; : ; :

/  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /

                         older variable

                         striding

                         puppets

      , Of an onion unionizing

rafters , , , , , , , , , , = = = = =

                                 simplifying

                                 pleasures,

   change   commodities

                          to   IdeaS, , , , ,

         resist

               all sTaTiC

                              thinking &

ideologies   : : :

                        scam political

                              thought :

      [ALL!!!!!] , , , , every ounce

relocating habitual centrifugal

                         whiplash designations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

daubed, an eyelash seeks revenge

 

sCoLd    : :   an ANTI-

          earthquake        SQuaD

foaming            At               MouTh =

                           gUaRd, , , , > >

             delivering chEEsE

through severed organs > > , , , , ,

. . . . .

       plagues oF mummied

                  zucchini      : : : : :

who hath said, wary & distinguished,

           ‘please torch the vague earning

            criteria lounging within a

                             dumBeLL’ : : : : :

. . . . .

       critique:

                   NoMiNaTiOn,

                            bald-headed

                            tattle-tale

                            dispatch

                                   OPERATOR,,,,,

[wallop!

        scallop! placement

                              lEg

   typewriter                       scarf . . .

. .

              fried missionaries

              vomiting routines . . .

. . touring pastiche slaughterhouse whiff

    drowning, BLUR, systematic dream . . . . .

                              ] , >

                               backgammon

                    MaP           =             gAmE =

choo-choo

             monstrosity plugging central

                                              agency

                            SWATCH           , , ,

      licking

               dynamite grease

: : : | packaged numerical

        vacuum doorframe

                                       | : : :

                   KNOCK-

                             knock, , , ,

relegated cage-free

                               front desk

                               wisp, , , , ,

              [scoop],

wearing dangling straightener

nodding offhand remark

studying kangaroo guts] , , , , ,

                         . . . . .

                         sloppy = = =

          drunken pillowcase

dynamic reindeer

                    ghostly

                    spleen

    , receptionist

      signed handlebar

                 mustache

                 commemorative

                 plate , signaling

observed fables

                     , façade, , , ,

        lifeless oVeN

   clEAnER (a leper),

                  reverse locality

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Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is a member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books O! fragmented glories (Argotist Ebooks), Prismatic Fissures (C22 Press), and peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com