Texas Fontanella

A Line From Jimmy Dore

We build, and get billed for, our own 
coffin fits. It’s not unusual to do in paris,
walking as a tourist by the louvre in
stead of entering. The evidence is
nestled deep in a psychosis, which
would be next in line to the impossible
to ascertain without the assistance
of a thorough online learning pro
gram whose ethics are unquestion
ably superior to those offered by
any known government depart
ment, or indeed, any department
store known for selling strawberry
blonde bucket hats at reasonable
prices, all without compromising the
quality of material used in order to 
influence parliamentary processes. 
& it is in just this get up that I will turn 
and cough. The open casket is not, is
never enough; I’ll have my mind wide 
open, thanks, throughout death, and 
glasses I don’t need on. My voting rights 
will shrivell, but i’ll remain contended. At 
the low, low price of $600 a day, death 
remains the most affordable rental op
tion currently available on the market.

Mark DeCarteret

after effect

simultaneously
not & a lot
they start in
on themselves
then surge
outward as if
they got to
tugged to & fro
before being
rushed back
into place but
this time at-that-
lingering where

they’re back-lit
illuminated by
the sun’s after-
thoughts or re-
assurances
& then still
lingering &
realigning a-
gain while w/
standing my
guess work &
milling around
before segueing
into these in-
scapes &
something more
or less out
there & here