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Subsistence income (Francesc Vallverd​ú​)

from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble) by Dominic James Jaeckle

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Francesc Vallverdú, read in English language translation by Jon Auman ... Harmony Holiday reads her poem, ‘Here is a Southern Gothic that’s True’ ...

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“Overall mission. God and you.”
Pick a topic: subsistence income.

“Brethren, think of the afterlife,
think that there, all your sorrows ... ”

A man is locked up in a dungeon,
his body battered ...

“ ... They will get their reward.”

Tear the green packet:
400 pesetas?

Wife, mother and three children,
goes without saying, plenty of bread.

“Material goods are not important.”

“God will talk to you.
Overall mission.”

The barracks are not watertight,
a pair of eyes in the dark
look at the ceiling.

“God, and you.”

“Brethren, life is a cross.”

... The house of
a bountiful and great man,
a former palace, all upholstered,
four bathrooms,
gardens and servants in uniforms.

The woman of the house
gives to charity

“ ... but it will be
easier for a camel to enter ...”

The lady feels
qualms and her husband laughs.

Father Ignasi rushes to calm her,

“The thing about the camel, Madame,
was written for non-donors,
the alms that you give to the convent
are worth a piece of heaven.”

“In peace ...
have you read the newspaper?
There are so many robberies!”

“It’s vice, Madame, workers … ”

400 pesetas, wife,
mother and three children,

“I couldn't care less,
the culprit is Marx.”

“God, yes ... ”

Where is he?

•

Maybe it is time to devour one another
this grandiose sharing
could be the new
commerce

The brainwave patterns of 40 subjects
were officially coded with
spoken words and silent thoughts

A violent indoctrination we placated to learn to read

What a boring patience
the one for freedom

Here is Jimmy Baldwin in his apron greasing a pan
some landline intervenes an endlessly
ringing earth
revelations ( I been ‘buked and

The other side of heartbreak is not ambition

crimson gauze wrapped in god’s suicide

Some genocide is god’s suicide
adjacent and remote
a gory form of favoritism

Shot 44 times in the head
they announce readily
I will not dream only
of security and safety

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from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble), released January 10, 2023

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