Marty Hiatt














caput mortuum








caput mortuum 







                             |        thank   you    for    your        submission        |
 
 
 
 
 
put down my pen. walk backwards. each thesis a little loss of self-control
 
 
 
                                              i must lie here
 
                                “by issuing a verbal signal”
 
                                                     prone
                              in no standing zone
 
 
 
 
 
 
                            this animal
                            stuck to my face
 
 
                   update: theres no more atmosphere
                   but a steaming flannel freshens sockets
 
 
                                a certain railing
                                a certain bollard
                                a certain visor
                                a certain rim
                                a certain frame
                                a certain downpipe
                                a certain cable
                                a certain fitting
                                a certain axle
                                a certain rack
                                a certain scaffold
                                a certain vent
                                a certain trim
                                a certain antenna
                                a certain awning
                                          
                                next to the churr of the mind
                                inventing bondage
 
 
                                                  dispersal
    that cannot regroup, intensity that cannot be quelled,
    root-matter and matter squared
                                                  hurtling
      into mitsubishi vortex on a magic carpet of giant banknotes
            pretending not to notice the stench of the acid
         burning through every face
 
                                                  the ash in your eyes.
                                                  light is pain.
                                                  the taste of it.
                                                  a category 4
                mind
     claps overhead. time for an audit of motorways.
                                                  the gap
       between parasitism with no ill effect on
                                                  he host and parasitism
       that kills the host. youve
               really got to own your emmiseration. peggy has
           a novel for the book trade. even databases need
        to earn their crust. there is a fire
   on the wall. the horse is ineffable.
   ministers wait for the truth to blow over, fallout gusts.
       the easy play of the double gyre
                       eructing. the unheld wand
                that keeps the pieces moving. purple rust
            in the sparse air of evening.
 
“the incestuous blood-line of the pharaohs is still detectable, but
sublimated into an impersonal administration.”
                                                  a precision
                                                  to your nothing. such that
     it took uniforms and mustard moustaches
              for them to stop you going the wrong way. fasting, torn
    from the rabid clutches of the orders, now distributed
                      by the global division of labour.
                                                  work like
              yeast before the oven
 
                               now wheres my whip
 
                               oh right of course
                               replaced by taser
 
 
                                                  the handcuffs held
         and he was willing to receive extreme unction. minimalist shrieks.
 
                      “he is, at most, times carcass.”
 
                                                  drench
                in lacquer when done for valorization.
           the city subsides but we build on that
 
                                                  jump
       as the sand falls gambol as the credits settle
 
                                                  aggravated assaults
             and book signings increased by over four percent
                  in the quarter to march. in the commotion
i got caramel on my presidential candidate sash. many gallons
                                                  burnt
    per acre. wearing out is a long term commitment. the cards
           cant all expire at once but must be staggered. guessing
     is a new, rapidly expanding field:
                                                  surmisation studies.
       but you once subscribed without reflection
           to determinism and now will have to live
         with it. the plinth is void but cars
     are getting smarter.
                                     puddle
                                     set upon
                                     by leaf blower
 
                                                  home
           is where the homing missiles are. not
                    to be confused with
     the rotation of the flower beds high rises tenants
 
                         wire you are.
                         epoxy resin you are.
 
      and “if you are not doing what you love”
                                                  , i.e. expropriating,
                                                              youre wasting your time”
 
 
                                                  nothing
                    but sights to see here. toadie to enter
                                                  politics
 
                                                  ties obscure buttons
       cant be sure theyre done up table legislation ban them grant
               special powers to the relevant agencies
 
 
 
 
                             rape             continues
 
 
 
 
id est,
 
we are ever constituting
 
, creating huge fields of orbiting debris
 
on the endless lino
 
there is a map
 
    but you must first traverse the arterial
                at a pirate-free spot
 
if i trip ill wake before i land
 
 
                                                  the witchs hat
    toppled. panel come loose by tank neck. bystanders
           nota bene the cracking of the rib cage. ethanol delivers.
     rise above blacktop and lend an ear to the song
                   of the charlatan. look through the window through
          the billboard through the merchandise through the model
      through the lens through the software read the code. tune up
            your neurosis and grow into the infection
 
     intelligence is artificial
 
   research suggests
         that it adds stress to peoples lives.
           another body another hole. hot roast bird
        in my throat. been spared plague
which is something. at any given moment
 an animal a symbol an organ an art a technique a colour.
               predator nearby to keep you moving. research suggests
         that it adds stress to peoples lives.
                                                  speakers float.
    still deign to argue though im right.
                 speak only in the agreed upon formulae.
       adrift in currencies, factories feed. coke bottle
                                                  stabs itself
             in the foot, drains then throws itself into the
       weltering black, where it finds other likeminded bottles
                bobbing. legislation “reaches out” to the “at risk”
   category. simply banish them to the
                                                  e-waste satellite
 
having harvested their resistance as data
 
 
         the pole star gone ballooning
 
         invest or eat shit
 
         let me explain:
 
     delirium                       bullrush
 
 
     snaffle                         cadaverous
 
 
after a hiatus of almost three weeks life will resume ending in the morning
 
                                                  the desert of pitch,
        boiling. promotional amphetamines
    distributed to all traders upon arrival. as long as
           it takes. the minister for tourism explained that
   there was no need to cancel the festivities merely
     postpone them three days to get the dead burnt to ash. a mother
attended for symbolism. the risk of a confidence crisis cannot
       be ruled out. a marksman crosses my path. emergency sun.
           “art must” said the president. stay behind
                                                  the black line
 
    pop a dexedrine and begin commando visualisations
 
    if i think clearly, and express myself clearly, they will clearly all obey
 
    its different to the movies, more of a thin popping sound
 
    vines with nothing to cling to but other vines
 
    this is not best practice
 
                                                  airbourne slurry
                                                  airbourne gruel
            a rock dropped into a wastebasket. one-way maze.
                                                  to get out of the bottleneck
       you must accelerate toward oncoming traffic. i cant be held
          responsible i only lifted it fully-formed out of
             the hands of the dying man, before dropping it on his face.
                 seeking a host
            seeking a host
                       awaiting response
                 stand by
                wake up
              refresh
                    loading
   even robots know what theyre doing, zombies
      are passionately committed. swipecard and
    fingerprint combination not recognised. wingless, i stand
                                                  on curdled blood
                and iron law. nest still suckered to my backside
 
    at first glance this looks like nonsense. however,
 
    depositing riches served this purpose in the bronze age
 
               community
               held together by angle grinders
               it serves as a shield for the weapons cache
 
    the treatment removes a layer of skin
 
            dear john cage,
    beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep   beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep   beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
 
      could we really have made it to the methane lakes of the satellites?
      the petrochemical engineers stone. baldwin was mulling
           a twenty thirteen run for mayor of new york city. were there
    any pockets of air in the cruise liner run aground? simultaneous massacres
                  in the US today conspired to confound the flash. korea divided
     for an endless comedown party of slaughter by proxy. a small dessert free
           with every cerebral rectification sold. dbt draws on cbt to treat bpd
                                                  on cctv. currency is virtual. the soul is night.
theres another world on the lower ground level, with its own maglev vactrains,
                      agribusiness and big open skies.
[cue slide of wild tropical river]
             any new development may just be noise in the signal.
                chestnuts still in leaf. at mid-century. our lashes sag with salt.
 
“flaming bagpipes: an image that captures the mood of this historic event.”
 
the air force will not say what the X-37 is for.
 
family soup, family mayo, family lube, family moon.
 
the day when everyone finally gets fitted with
              a brain-computer interface hooked up
           to a 3D printer, and prints their dreams.
 
here,
the upended reptile head meaning birth.
 
 
i repeat.
 
 
        there are not as many beds as people.
                                                  there are as many
         as need lay down at any one time, minus a few
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                thousand. we almost collide but
        at the last moment a word a coin a grunt and
                    we veer through the unmanifest
                                                  leaving a trail of whitegoods
           and pathogens. his bauxite firm was busy
       figuring ways to beat the big freeze.
                                                  a lotus flower
                   settles on my desk
                                                  number 6043658
       mobbed by silent lawyers
                                                  their book is red and very large
                                                  frown into it for years then win at lyf
 
 
 
               pronouns a job like any other
 
 
 
 
               i fell into it
 
 
               because
 
 
               it is an abyss
 
 
 
 
               sewing these dumb shards together with a tin needle
 
               he is trying to instil national values into you, reader.
               ummm-ahhhhhhhh.
 
               tour ghettos for memoir
 
               luggage team scooting along behind
 
               snap the odd trunk for probity
 
                                                  see this here
               cycle of births and deaths? well if you strap
a band around it youve got enough power
               to drive a wheel or a prop, and then not even
the skys the limit. pent nothing, pent blahdom. voices
               worm in to the white flesh of instinct. the earth i carry and burn.
buy 599 999 coffees get one free (in the designated
               time period only). prams go by, golfs
go by. oh look id love to but im too busy abjuring.
               pet owners live longer: they have something
to kick and that yelps when kicked and that
               doesnt kick back. like this then disease. “distinguish yourselves from
the commoners with first-class headphones.” we participate. we
               outperform. we defibrillate. (i speak as a bose-owner.)
securitization ritual with mormon tie-in. pavement for lease.
               the estate family at table. the circular rubbing of the balm,
and the haze that adds colour at sundown. youre only
               innovative because you own people. so far so state terror.
it is without the wisdom by design. in the interim, so much to molest.
               in the interim, horrific scarecrow
                                                  waves a fan
                                                  at its flaming legs
               drives a flathead into own ruby iris and lifts off, giddy as nettles. now you are
the idea you once only had. its right there: crow prancing kneeless
               on skip-rim, fifteen steel filing cabinets in its craw
man hurls stacked dinner plates in
               they shatter on metal edges
                                                  (of vivisected egos)
and trickle down like icing.
               the mode of production you have selected,
socialism, is not in service. please make a note
               of it. your looks have a direct influence on your success,
so here are some tips to amp up your hotness
 
                                                             ... we are detonating
                                                  gradually. our foundation myth
            (dont fret we have one!) is a raised finger, yet which?
                                                  fist
       was knocked back by sponsors, for shock waves
     disrupt broadcast of halftime show.
                              continue to circulate, in the interim.
               hot topics: student loan. some misuse
                                                  large amounts
of public funds, others small amounts. but
               the difference is that the liberal party
is not going anywhere, whereas im going
                                                  nowhere
 
 
               here,
in the stimultaneous emuleation
               where everythings tossible
if only we knew it
 
yet we will come together as in the tune and spasm.
 
                                                  generally speaking,
               the hand holding the pen needs to be
above the desk. but nowhere is it stipulated
               that the rest of the body cant be
                           slumped beneath
 
               plastic is “going on”, but today really oughta remain slime
 
               ive shirked long and hard to get where i am
 
               left to my own devices i smashed them all in a tantrum
 
               these empty scales sag and drool
 
               point my finger : not true
 
 
                                                  we are all eva brauns
 
                                                  we will last as long as an ex“hang”e:
               something malodorous for something rank
                                                  we are vying for the exclusive contract
               to evolve the next layer of the cerebral cortex.
                                                  the air steward is superior:
               he keeps his hair cropped, for example
 
 
                        the arrowhead wave-tips, a star chart flashing
                        and the stench of molten blubber
                        and the dripping fire lights only a tumid black flow
                        emery glacier
                        and the blind whole echoes celebrates itself
                                                  its prismatic its manifold blindness
                        folds like dough
                        and the creases vanish
                        bristles wets itself wet for joy for terror
 
                        see the countless mouths gargling in the swell?
 
 
 
              turn around and look back over the void you crossed
 
                        soon youll hardly even flinch
                                  at having to live
                        what has already been written
 
              and badly
 
 
 
 
 
                                                       you cannot
                                              refute what survives
 
 
                          but what else
 
 
 
 
                                     
 
 
 
 
 
              lay down dusty                with the lollygagging star