{"id":4699,"date":"2014-03-23T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2014-03-23T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T02:00:50","slug":"peter-davidson-surf-city-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/03\/23\/peter-davidson-surf-city-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Davidson || Surf City, Here we come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t even nesting at that point. Helen took the stage with Tom. There were pies and drinks. It was so unlike Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We left without training our eyes to the sundial and they fixed upon tin and other flashing metals, wire, neon, neon wire tracing the shapes of beer bottles and golf balls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If only we&#8217;d left earlier. I spilled bleach on the couch and you said that&#8217;s okay, we&#8217;d just get white pants that&#8217;d get whiter when we sat on the white couch. It was like fighting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if it was all like that &#8211; I grab a piece of twine and my fingers unravel, wire pulling from the throat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here every flower. Terror if you have to.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t what he&#8217;s used to, little dead dream, breath and either he, husk entirely broadleaf he<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terror. If your father&#8217;s a racist say he&#8217;s not simple. Brickwork pleases nothing. Act slowly. Skin-colored hair clouds became mouthing each and every ever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>just an afternoon with you entirely different sister. Once lit a friend on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here &#8216;s the Raider Nation<\/p>\n<p>chasing hate crimes<\/p>\n<p>that floral newness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mouthless prison person<\/p>\n<p>basically rap lyrics. Victor<\/p>\n<p>selling paragraphs. Go to CVS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paralysis says<\/p>\n<p>I love stickers. Consider<\/p>\n<p>the judge who doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>go shooting with his nephews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t a Satanist quite yet<\/p>\n<p>selling propane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You tell me everything will end.<\/p>\n<p>You want this to be relative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tryptophan was exposed<\/p>\n<p>to be a myth of soporific foods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bestiary label does disturb me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write a song for Richard Petty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back to the skinny infomaniac<\/p>\n<p>almost fertile\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 drier<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and we&#8217;ve all known boxers who say<\/p>\n<p>Everything is everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A semi-hidden apple orchard<\/p>\n<p>in the Superstition Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mexicali Special&#8217;s what I call it<\/p>\n<p>Senorita. Suffer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terminate you&#8217;d force react, sect or innate turn a planned handler sakes psalm. Hand begins your back, behind calf in a calfskin hat swear you didn&#8217;t do this, clever off to offer ear it ate and earache, oh, subject, swear you&#8217;ll eat it always, eating bear and mustard grave into a lake. Echo date with dentist later. He&#8217;s men or in mind missed hunting javelina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where keep her<\/p>\n<p>the hair stain mulberry<\/p>\n<p>but mildew&#8217;s more it<\/p>\n<p>your red hairs go<\/p>\n<p>here every mirror<\/p>\n<p>knives you&#8217;ve given me<\/p>\n<p>where I keep the<\/p>\n<p>knives you&#8217;ve given me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>an hour<\/p>\n<p>or two ago, ten trembling knives<\/p>\n<p>thinking, we all have brown hair<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Offered one more<\/p>\n<p>egg or another<\/p>\n<p>else elastic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 noises, no<\/p>\n<p>oh, reify, recap demonaic,<\/p>\n<p>miasmal humming<\/p>\n<p>ending awfully early<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>isn&#8217;t excess convalescent<\/p>\n<p>as hiding near a closet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a collage you&#8217;d made and it<\/p>\n<p>was peeling. Little trucks and grey pills<\/p>\n<p>and plastic mannequins. You light<\/p>\n<p>a match and burn the door open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you made the collage I said<\/p>\n<p>I feel like rotting ice which was because<\/p>\n<p>of the TB scare. Spindles and pins were<\/p>\n<p>everywhere we felt like wool. We felt<\/p>\n<p>like bowling. We were breathing<\/p>\n<p>the fast breath of showers and we were dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your wrist is split you paint the walls<\/p>\n<p>white with your kiss. I remembered a can.<\/p>\n<p>Is tin. Is paper plate is glue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see your<\/p>\n<p>eyes going green and I know this is<\/p>\n<p>Delaware. Carve me a lilac. It&#8217;s Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed too far from the dam.<\/p>\n<p>You scare, you give, you claws.<\/p>\n<p>My books are made of wax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your skin peels like a magnet hold<\/p>\n<p>my hand I know you&#8217;re grey you<\/p>\n<p>hold my hand. I like that song<\/p>\n<p>because nobody&#8217;s excited about surf city<\/p>\n<p>everybody&#8217;s already there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no north in Delaware. One<\/p>\n<p>toothache. One Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>liquid difference, misses<\/p>\n<p>or us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and I am not alright<\/p>\n<p>with farmers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>deleting serenades is one thing<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re curious<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>red ink<\/p>\n<p>slitted missive gutted pomegranate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What trips me is liquid<\/p>\n<p>been waiting for you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>knowing portends forgetting<\/p>\n<p>form-fitting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you being the slow fruit of me<\/p>\n<p>do me in<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O, Enumerator<\/p>\n<p>licking cave<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>barrenness in tryst<\/p>\n<p>you my this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s about you<\/p>\n<p>about a lung or two<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Be psychotic for the vanity. The incest of nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chickens are pissed. Why are the framers working on the house next door the day before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brilliance is mimicry, a blind uncle. As in the loneliness of forestry professions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The school shootings are inevitable. Here s a symphony &#8211; invest in razor rash, my symphony. The sodium is so affordable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meadows confuse her with their sweatshirts and dead batteries. God bless us for being born American. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<b>Surf city, here we come<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything is gift wrapping. Never went outside. Not finding things affects ruins leaving everything blank or blankening and moths &#8211; easy phantoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I threw grease from the rooster we killed on the shed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n_____________________<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8SP2f1eJjX4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8SP2f1eJjX4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<strong>Peter Davidson<\/strong> lives in Tucson.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>___________________ Surf city, here we come \u00a0 We weren&#8217;t even nesting at that point. Helen took the stage with Tom. There were pies and drinks. 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