Doller - Fauxhawk

FAUX HAWK BEN DOLLER FAUX HAWK Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut www.wesleyan.edu/wespress 2015 Ben Doller All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Typeset in Sina Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. The author extends appreciation and grateful acknowledgment to the editors and staff of the following publications in which poems from this book appeared, often in different forms and under alternative titles: Academy of American Poets Poem of the Day, Apartment, The Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Review, Fence, Jupiter 88, Poor Claudia (Phoneme), The LA Telephone Book, Mantis, Textsound: an Online Audio Publication, Vertebrae, and The Volta. W. S. Merwin, Your way, translated from the Crow, from Selected Translations 19482011.

Copyright 2013 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org. Doller, Ben. [Poems.

Selections] Fauxhawk / Ben Doller. pagescm. (Wesleyan poetry series) ISBN 978-0-8195-7586-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8195-7587-6 (ebook) I. Title. PS3554.O97428A6 2015 811'.54dc23 2015020799 54321 This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cover images (top) Google earth image 2013 GeoEye, (bottom) Google earth image. Courtesy of Clement Valla. for AlphabetYour wayis turning badand nobody but youis there >> from Crow Versions, Plenty-hawk CONTENTS FAUX HAWK THE FAUXHAWK dont go squawk in the forceps shop go (up) (get born) amok! rundown your block in a toque or in a flock of spots all tigerlilylike or just stop giving order to dont go get shot youre not and never will be hawk rather one of those delicious birds who chooses walks I taught I taw tis evening evenings cotillion, thing craft as a comet complex, copper-cropt-cop buzzard, in its sliding through the slipstream sonic boom booms the freon-drawn air, and wilding right there, how it sang upon the scene a careening screaming in its targeting! Then on, on on it flings as its steel hurl rolls hard towards a compound: the remote eyeing reset the map-scale. My flesh in writhing groaned for a drone,the R/C of, the detachment of the sling! Bully booty and power and tact, oh, flair, guide, BOOM!, here Rubble! AND the pyre that breaks into flame then, a zillion Times told shinier, more mushroomy, O my musketeer! No wonder in it: vaped bods make Cloud-cowed civilian Ka-Ching, kids disremembered, ah my dear, the report cannot be independently verified. my stooges shirt my stooge popular iggy peanut butter I wear my stooges under work shirts to stage rage to play a little ditty to raw power to passenge alive in sweatwater bathtops in heroin hats the white rats covered up half shaved primate curing a common cough RUN1 The word is a verb but the word is a noun I noun you I noun pronounce you now pronoun you I do I am my wifes wife. I wive.

I wave the news at a beetle who must die. It runs into and out of this house of mine. 2 The verb is a word but the verb is a noun Im deverbing you I just gerunded Excuse me. Words are free I am not. The news is good not so good and terrible, it runs at least a hundred pages old. CYBERMONDAY # flexibleemeralds spermicidalketchup petrochemicalbagsconsistofwhattheycontain deadscentssentexpressmadeMEDIA omahasteaksubscriptionForemangrill testosterone&zeranoldroolsthroughthespout clabberinginthetunacan fromamazon arisesthecorrugationfiberboardingoosestep entombingagooselivermaskofaman Iwillwearthisresttherestofmylife Iwilltaketherestofmylifeuponasettee brandedafter aspokesmodelcloud # letusnowpray totheexplicitsentence theunequivocalinordertojiveorjibeprecise theprivilegeofpunctuationspitstaintheorder thecolonoscope decrieswherewego isitbadtobeevil ifsoyouareborn isiteviltoapostrophizesacrosanctcenotaphs itsjustIhavesomanyleftover excretions itsthejustwomanmanrejectstheaveragemanwoman brandishingane-bouquetHDgeraniums ImforgettingtowritesothatImaybreathe handmethetorchletsseewhatthissolventsays # nothingforlunch butfunnylookingdiskettes nothingfornoon butfurinasock themeterisrunningthemeterisrunning theincorporation bouncingabucketonahotday screwedupblacktopplasticsound nothingbutsun inplaceofthesupper businessinfront carmageddonintheback themeterisruining themouthfeel thepoematablet protectsyourtongue itsnicetolookatthemirrorsometimesthewallbehind swipingyourcardinastrangersslot [ EY ] I abase my base. CYBERMONDAY # flexibleemeralds spermicidalketchup petrochemicalbagsconsistofwhattheycontain deadscentssentexpressmadeMEDIA omahasteaksubscriptionForemangrill testosterone&zeranoldroolsthroughthespout clabberinginthetunacan fromamazon arisesthecorrugationfiberboardingoosestep entombingagooselivermaskofaman Iwillwearthisresttherestofmylife Iwilltaketherestofmylifeuponasettee brandedafter aspokesmodelcloud # letusnowpray totheexplicitsentence theunequivocalinordertojiveorjibeprecise theprivilegeofpunctuationspitstaintheorder thecolonoscope decrieswherewego isitbadtobeevil ifsoyouareborn isiteviltoapostrophizesacrosanctcenotaphs itsjustIhavesomanyleftover excretions itsthejustwomanmanrejectstheaveragemanwoman brandishingane-bouquetHDgeraniums ImforgettingtowritesothatImaybreathe handmethetorchletsseewhatthissolventsays # nothingforlunch butfunnylookingdiskettes nothingfornoon butfurinasock themeterisrunningthemeterisrunning theincorporation bouncingabucketonahotday screwedupblacktopplasticsound nothingbutsun inplaceofthesupper businessinfront carmageddonintheback themeterisruining themouthfeel thepoematablet protectsyourtongue itsnicetolookatthemirrorsometimesthewallbehind swipingyourcardinastrangersslot [ EY ] I abase my base.

I abash my bash. I abate my bait. I abduct my duct. I abet my bet. I abhor my whore. I abstain my stain.

I abstract my tract. I abut my butt. I accede my seed. I accent my scent. I acclaim my claim. I acclimate my climate.

I accompany my company. I accost my cost. I account my count. I accredit my credit. I accrue my crew. I acknowledge my knowledge.

I acquire my choir. I address my dress. I adhere my here. I administer my minister. I admire my mire. I admit my mitt.

I adore my door. I advise my vice. I affirm my firm I affix my fix. I afford my Ford. I affront my front. I allow my low.

I amass my mass. I ambush my bush. I analyze my lies. I anchor my core. I appeal my peel. I append my end.

I apply my ply. I appoint my point. I apportion my portion. I appose my pose. I appraise my praise. I apprise my prize.

I archive my chive. I arrange my range. I arrest my rest. I ashame my shame. I asperse my purse. I assault my salt.

I assign my sign. I atomize my mys. I atone my tone. I attack my tack. I attest my test. I attire my tire.

I augment my meant. I avail my veil. I avoid my void. I avow my vow. I await my wait. LACANIAN INC. aw hell I am
at a such a great
distance from this conflict
in the halfawake
uninvolvement I couldnt even
pretend to read,
see, I have amassed this
massive inaccessible
intelligence, better, knowledge, eminently
translatable in
vocab-sense yet the syntax
I consider hostile
as it I cannot occupy, like
walking on a historical
floodTHE westernspeaking