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.