Peter Stuhlmann

Peter Stuhlmann lives and writes in Ottawa, Canada and can be reached

at pstuhlmann@mailandnews.com (although we also have a

pstuhlmann@yahoo.com address for him).

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the slugger & the lamb

she's got the right prick

this time - snared

him with her star wars hair

& lexically

corrected vision - it

ain't sexy, no sir, but monday

it is & raining the elegiac

avenues of snails

- which i almost miss

in the mirror again, doing

my best duke

grinning from the side

of my mouth

& to think joe dimaggio, the slugger

& the lamb

pea-eyed with wonder

in love when fur babies were still

the rage

anyway, she's got her talons

tricky full - so i'm

the one to call the third-world taxi

& the palmist

out on a night one fat

star sits up there pig-eyed

like a pearl of cum in a marxist's navel

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04/19/2001

we were married beyond recognition

which means, I suppose

freedom to shift

through the body's rooms

like breath pulled through a damp cigarette

Life without momentum

is a mantis who's forgotten to pray

you said

much as Spielberg or Lucas might say CUT

And how clever

you were, the host who rushed

to market on a day too sunny

for words to have her ovaries bugged

What you need now, more

than anything, is a smoke

a new pair of shoes, the muscle

to choke your Chekovian clock

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in this, i'm reading my own stuff, voice

it's one thing to murder

but to tip the boys' coloured pencils

w/curare

(while exotic, fragrant w/bat wing & guano

[cue applause

[cue announcer tie change

is a bit much

as it would be to see a mop of wiry curl

under lady liberty's

arm

from On High vantage (we are made to roof- ride

the bus

w/other ochre people

(free-fuckers of the world unite and blaze

'til God's heel

grinds us away as he does

his last cigarette every morning before bed

a bit of pop-culture

fun

that guy in new york

reaching for his wallet (or comb

when the fists

in blue

slap hell for leather

& punch him up 13 times

[cue smile change

[cue final, colour-fast wash

Peter Stuhlmann