Lorraine Graham

Lorraine Graham's poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the Washington Review, So to Speak, and 108. She edits Anomaly, a magazine of innovative poetry and poetics in (mostly) the Washington, DC region, speaks Chinese, and knows a lot about missile defense systems. You can read more work or contact her at www.yakub-beg.com. She can be reached at lgraham@stimson.org.

(from "Work Poems")

ALWAYS FOR

Been nice in the active

phase well known catalytic

roles and I have major goals:

basket grabbing, make requests.

An underway development.

Institution game talk process

functionality & design recap.

Change the finish. Map & start.

~

It's the new logo! It's Taiwan. It's not

tic tack toe it's an H! It's been working

on copy sketch interface with CIA technology.

Group think macro micro tooling game effect.

Delusion making template. Every day is a move

every team hierarchical. Communicate. Leak.

Post analysis. Estimate first target first

blush realistic in total. Support over time

I mean war demarche or speech. Military move

economic evolved congress. Get info in the

situation room. 3000 people played this scene

and blew up the world every time.

~

Something's wrong with the plumbing, catcalls, and your pants.

~

Nausea: today's witty story an over rated skill.

~

Nail glue nylon.

Less overheated than

almost business causal.

Almost digging up

the district rotting

riots and fish fry. Office

space for rent

now lounge. So you've

dabbed congealer on

those would-be dancer

legs. Go archive.

~

We're cooking

with gas. Still

citizen, eating

doughnuts. Growth/

identity on track

to critical mass.

Back up graphs,

break out groups.

My leave is over!

Any specific.

~

Commission to run through the

staff meeting. Bang it out located.

All your favorite themes run

out-keep in mind divorce.

~

Dedicated to strange bedfellows and to

case closures and rehearsing pitch

incineration. What it takes to clean up

kill or sanction Raj in the starts and

stripes omnimedia. Get potassium,

acryl ate. Execute.

~

Budget office chairs for

more serious perversions.

This day least evanescent

sexy incantation not sexy

like sex or computer pellet

nutrition. There's enough

space under my desk-dear

G-d pls. Erase beliefnet

browser history and alt.

sex.com. Bored girl scout

cookies all shack. I eat 5.

~

In jail compile recipes for

fish and cold warm-weather

soup and salad. Jail's got it

good in the utility bill, in the

Admin with a capital "L"

for no I don't know where

it is or read the news is sub

Siberian vodka. Ice cream

Nostalgia. Won't that get

you through labor camp

Winter or possible execution?

~

STASH

beerfast week and weekend

slum (I love the you that's you

in the magazine article).

She looked like I imagine

she does but not as pretty

cuz I've seen pictures and

don't have to imagine anyway.

~

high season singing sergeants on the west terrace

~

(used cookie dough but baked it in a muffin pan)

~

theory of bite suck complexity

in total quality free range

autonomous latte-fat. coffee

cherry fly by plastic fencing

match-a chance to be the

loving circus freak box

under your bed order level.

one step feed loop competition.

blast the cream. nibble or stop it.

~

push up office squat no spaghetti straps here

~

MY PROPOSAL

Moral resolution: circle jerk

scotch tape. All together:

single or Fascist? Never more

than two wives one is best

says G-d it's OK. Employ

virgins read maids and what

if she isn't and then what?

~

SHRINK

That blare excites.

Summarize. It's all

about standing

around, shrieking.

~

Yearning for fruit and

non group therapy mean

this progression is linear.

I'm falling behind in

my doomsday plan.

~

in honor of not being at the

meeting in honor of escalating

anti stoic anti in honor

of anti in honor of noodles

pulled and noodles fried

and tossed and carried

over land. in honor of

nestorians and satellite

technology not for anti

intelligence life for

life in honor of lunch.

~

Big 5 agreeable ticket

to the online teenage

fanclub now debunked

commission. Strive for

thorough abstract theory

building interaction.

Casual loafers. Every

morning news of the gap.

~

Seeking guidance in the summer

being here in the summer.

Macadamia nuts seeking lava.

This meeting will occur

ideally during my vacation.

Cleaning day: I find the

Russian masks helpful I find

the refrigerator satisfying

hosting dignitaries. Strategic

thinking about pithy expressions.

Final is the wrong word. Bring

back drafts. Policy in space.

~

Cross with the light my little

green munchkin girl. You're

out of coffee down mythologize

damage-control displacement.

Serves to go at least go there

and there is better than traffic.

Lorraine Graham