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US & THE BAD MEN IN THE ELM PLACE


Snort of rookus, poison’d
Spike on rear ricasso, & they’re
Good to empt a man.
Don’t it feel peccant, how many
Windows they broke? the way
They rubbed their jaws like that?
It’s enough to raise allovers
& the damnd vellications.
It’s a Lon Chaney Christmas :
Sun pale yaller & hung
Like a cape, halfassed in its last
Look at the world.
Us & the bad men, godblessit.
In the elm place. Each of them
Esau : one woman on either side,
One dexter & one sinister.
But not a single one was witness 

To our honings. If you forget
Them they are gone. They are
All Gone, our real movement.




FOR JABBO SMITH


Cook the steak in mucho butter,
Dress it in key lime honey &
Banana ketchup. The whitest rum,
The greenest egg : When it’s peeled,
One can pattern the shell flecks, &
That’s language (an exterior delimit
-ing an interior, entire unsubtle Egg,
& the fish crow : ohmigod, ohmigod.
Everybody’s got a laughing place.
It begins in the mouth, shakes
Loose from there, Cladys, each
Your cast turns open’d
& swung like a balisong blade,
Inconsistent but mortal gorgeous
Risk, wrist-to-finger. Yours was a
Scattered thing, but not itinerant.
A means by which to pour out,
Clear up to the brim : to dissipate,

Then reappear, if only shadow :
A book still with its rattle.
A bookshelf with some play.




WITHOUT PREMEDITATION & EVEN AGAINST MY WILL



Went an ailing. Went an opening.
Went undesigning.
Enacted “Put-live-things-in-you”
(in case you really are that close.
O but just admit the will is fecund, tho
Animated & daubed with a set of bones :
           spectry composessor which
Empty the self in filling the jigger.
Are you moving it?        I am not moving it,
This pencil : but my page is marked,
My glass goes clean, ti pa ti pa. What did
You there see? (doesn’t matter :
Only what sees you can matter.
A poem sees. It sings. The last man
On earth singing the first
Song ever written. Doesn’t matter.
You go (

You’ll be seen never & by no
Low ringers, least not until later.
A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop.




C VIOLET EATON is the author of Some Habits, which won the Omnidawn Open Book Prize. He lives in West Fork, Arkansas.

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  • C- L O U _D
  • I S - S U E S
    • ISSUE 1 >
      • LILY DUFFY & SUMMER GREER
      • xTx
      • ESZTER TAKACS
      • JON STEINHAGEN
      • QUINN WHITE
      • RUTH BAUMANN
      • PORTIA ELAN
      • HOWIE GOOD
      • KRISTINA BORN
      • DANIEL ROMO
      • KAT FINCH
      • JAKE SYERSAK
      • MATT ROWAN
      • CODY KLIPPENSTEIN
    • ISSUE 2 >
      • RACHEL LEVY
      • MARK SCROGGINS
      • DAVID TOMALOFF
      • JULIANA LESLIE
      • JESSICA JENKINS
      • JOHN OLSON
      • KIM STOLL
      • JESSE MACK
      • NATE PRITTS
    • ISSUE 3 >
      • KEN TAYLOR
      • JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
      • JOSHUA HARMON
      • PJ WILLIAMS
      • ERIC BAUS
      • MICHAEL JOSEPH WALSH
      • PARKE COOPER
      • CHARLES ALEXANDER
      • J/J HASTAIN
    • ISSUE 4 >
      • CAROLINE CREW
      • NICHOLAS GRIDER
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • JOSEPH LUCIDO
      • LIZ MCGEHEE
      • MARTIN CORLESS-SMITH
      • RACHEL SPRINGER
    • ISSUE 5 >
      • ABRAHAM SMITH
      • MICHELLE DOVE
      • RUSSELL JAFFE
      • MATHIAS SVALINA
      • SARA NICHOLSON
      • ALYSSE KNORR & Mx MACK
    • ISSUE 6 >
      • ANDREW ZAWACKI
      • CAROLINE CABRERA
      • DAVID BARTONE
      • NOAH ELI GORDON & DAVID PERRY
      • ALEXIS ALMEIDA
      • KYLE BASSETT
      • KATIE WILLINGHAM
      • ROB MACDONALD
      • CARLEEN TIBBETTS
      • J MICHAEL MARTINEZ
    • ISSUE 7 >
      • ADRIAN KIEN
      • AMBER NELSON
      • LIAM SWANSON
      • BECKA MARA MCKAY
      • ANDREW JORON
      • CLAIRE CRONIN
      • PHILIP SCHAEFER
      • RJ INGRAM
      • RACHEL MINDELL
      • WILL ALEXANDER
    • ISSUE 8 >
      • TANEUM BAMBRICK
      • ELENI SIKELIANOS
      • GEORGE KALAMARAS
      • RYAN BOLLENBACH
      • JOHN GALLAHER & KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
      • JOSHUA YOUNG
      • OREN SILVERMAN
      • KATIE JEAN SHINKLE
      • JOSHUA COREY
    • ISSUE 9 >
      • GALE MARIE THOMPSON
      • JOS CHARLES
      • CRAIG FOLTZ
      • MICHAEL SIKKEMA
      • JOSEPH LEASE
      • EVE KENNEALLY
      • TYRONE WILLIAMS
      • ALISHA BRUTON
      • C VIOLET EATON
    • ISSUE 10 >
      • PAUL CUNNINGHAM
      • EMILY O'NEILL
      • JEFF ALESSANDRELLI
      • VINCENT TORO
      • ROBYN ART
      • MARTY CAIN
      • ZACHARY EVANS
      • DYLAN KRIEGER
    • ISSUE 11 >
      • SARAH SGRO
      • MAGGIE WOODWARD
      • JULIA MADSEN
      • BRUNO RIOS translated by ROBERTO TEJADA
      • DENNIS JAMES SWEENEY
      • TIM EARLEY
      • JOSEPH MASSEY
    • ISSUE 12 >
      • VALERIE HSIUNG
      • MICHAEL MARTIN SHEA
      • GRAHAM FOUST
      • WILL NEWMAN
      • RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA
      • JEFFREY LANCE
      • SYLVIA CHAN
      • THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT
  • M_AST-HEAD
  • SUB-MI-T_
  • NEW_S
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