nudie mags bottom of the pile, junk store
scurrilous books
spike heels
panty lines / tan lines
smell of sweat and no. 30 in cracks
old drive-ins
writing about things that happen
skinny-dipping [10pm / don’t scream to avoid detection by beach cops]
mushrooms
calm days with the smell of lilacs in the air
sex in field of tall grass with the sounds of bees buzzing
sex in the dunes after a long walk
sociological tour of Atlantic City [boring is the new thrilling]
ripped posters on walls
slurping the foam off a cappucino
strawberry daquiris [early]
late night walk on beach [cheap beer, sand on genitalia]
beach glass collected
heated discussion about movies with lots to drink
art doodles
intimate memoirs of writers read aloud
WFMU donate time
bad bad movies – 2 lists
about my own views and visions
smell of early rain on summer dust
buying flowers vs picking wild flowers
ferris wheels [nausea or vertigo?]
hugging an old friend
junk shops [ 4 pairs of Converse hi-tops $40 – red, green, light blue, black]
watching people walk by [people only walking to get to a car. why?]
meet interesting people
the idea to plagiarize their lives [for a while] performance
lick salt off back of her hand
[predict rent hike or demise]
• bart plantenga
LIST FULL: List Poems of Necessary Orderliness (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)
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