Friday, November 5, 2010


Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top 20 Con words.


1. Conceal
2. Control
3. Confuse
4. Confine
5. Convict
6. Contempt
7. Conspire
8. Confabulate
9. Contravene
10. Constrain
11. Constrict
12. Contuse
13. Connive
14. Confiscate
15. Consume
16. Conspue
17. Contaminate
18. Concuss
19. Condescend
20. Conservative

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Found and Twisted Poem


In a peevish mood -whippy as sheets of glass
improperly annealed and ready to smash
at any indefinite touch
in a whining
matrix of stresses


(from Thomas Pynchon

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Common Song


Zucchini Zucchini
not a table is sparse

Zucchini Zucchini
it drops from your arse

Friday, June 18, 2010

Belford's Decomposition




In his latest full-length book of poems, Decompositions, Ken Belford successfully deconstructs not only reading and writing, but also the various lexicons of an urban capitalist culture bent on control. The poems themselves read like a poem in decomposition, this is organicism to the letter, language decomposing, on our tongues, with our thoughts.

Friday, June 4, 2010

SHORT CUTS

pie gate
under way

beef coconut
rooster balls

crayfish mash unit

spoonbeam learner curve

isolated detail

feet stammer wet reverb

dandelion wine
tiger strike

shoe addiction
thumb rubble

seat solvent swerve

ecstatic aesthetic

ideation migration

infinite pencil led

emulsified monument stove ticket

armed embrasure sentence trend

*

momentous tick
dimmed it
dam it knit
kitten tin

*

this sick fitness

*

legalize grout concert
removable thespian joust

simple oxameter

field reason dialogue venison

raisin jingle sock volume

*

broad cast
seed wink

end tame
mind sweep

*

nomad laughter lens

jump king
twaddle flack

*

laxative rash
nervous return

*

bass key brisket basket

*

brick lunch
cater weight

*

dread brook
wallow launch



c'est finis

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Poem


tomato sandwich
puddles in the garden
rain potato toe

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pinnochio Knows


1 question Harper would censor

Stephen Harper questions frank discussion to:

a) avoid public scrutiny
b) borrow another $6 billion for profitable corporations
c) divert attention from poor record on bank regulations
d) justify applying one policy on abortion abroad and another at home
e) to make abortion illegal in Canada
f) ignore the clean energy economy
g) ignore the best educated, most highly-skilled workforce in the world
h) cut funding to arts festivals, women’s groups, gay pride events, environmental research and energy efficiency programs
i) waste taxpayers’ dollars in self-promotion associated with the Economic Action Plan – including TV, print and radio ads, signage in front of projects, and travel to and from photo-op announcements
j) do nothing to ease the pressure on our health care system
k) to avoid Access to Information
l) all of the above