Jeff Bagato

“Vocabulary Development”

Last Call

lagtime bird breath

in dew sweet morning

soliloquize

pitching high

laying light upon the breeze

air furrowed by sun rays

bokeh lingering

air scented in lost magic found

cardinal in the tree

red flit of heat

senses seed

in everything

all seeds everywhere

waiting calm

in seed patient bliss

to grab some sun

and burst forth

singing life

against shattered futures

Going, Going, Gone

can’t clean with crap cream

can’t list with listerine

rag luggage

rap rummage

sales of souls

vampire picks

when the dirt is done

dirty dirty

twerking of the soul

subliminal sailing

desublimated repression

of resublimated depression

soap in mouth

for capitol cruisers;

smudge stick

smoke ‘em out

shaman style,

burning

sage fanned with owl wing

gone gloaming

gone soaping

Croatan looks

better

every passing

year

Language Operations

cymbal

simple

symbol

sun ball

sol bolus

surface tension

language labels mind processes

approximation

estimation

falsification

abstraction

incomplete

irrelevant

insignificant

obsfucation

operation

meditation

get to the pt where

language stops

processor

process

processed

what’s the difference

Toxic Moment

chortle chokes

chafers lisp

toxic moment

repeal the obvious

what sense remains in

garbage leaps

from one pile to another

death cleaning the mind

for better you

pay zone

pay gone

junk food

plump junk

lawn cemetary

flip lawn

heavy mental

mental dentation

forget & forget again

Loose Lips

Border clips

lip clips

lap clips

trust clips

rust chips

puck nips

tin nips

toss tips

slice slips

ya dip strings in gip

gip ya strips

tip o’ the gip

hollow pips

low chips

last rips

pleasure pips

pip pip pip

Bowl Flakers

bowl fakers

no takers

spool rummage

an image delight

dese lies

give prop

don’t stop

mean it

balloon martyr

sage baloney

barbarian quest

destiny of the beast feast

a layer a layer

means what

mean it

no takers

Blast Traces

grease monkey

with a hard on

call siri red now

blest faces

blast traces

weird spaces

around the corner

new times

like no times

you knew well

pock marked

fission blister

a new label makes new

gifts of old trophies

old tropes in the dust bin

a has-been

a strivemore with a hard on

for bitcoin

lap dancers

& chat bot dreams

Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as mail art, electronic music and glitch video. New books for 2022 document experimental text work from the past few years, including In the Engine Room with Bettie and Andrea Reading Pornography, Gonch Poems, Robot Speak, and Floral Float Flume: Flue Flit Flip. A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.