Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.
1. franchise logic
If you're a tourist
then a mixed media
installation which
explores the incidence
of chronic disease in
locally made souvenirs
is something special.
***
2. almost
identical to the dulcimer
Plucked by a
plectrum of
crow quill, aluminium, with
its vibration-dampening
characteristics, makes an
ideal material for creating a
fortified gun battery where
the 3rd, 5th, 6th & octave
intervals are dissonant.
crow quill, aluminium, with
its vibration-dampening
characteristics, makes an
ideal material for creating a
fortified gun battery where
the 3rd, 5th, 6th & octave
intervals are dissonant.
***
3. In the
clinic
Pixel domain matches
are defined by re-
fined gangue minerals
that must be sampled
at least twice to
effectively armor the
lounge-like environment
against the commercially
worthless but persistent
egg yolk flavor that
would otherwise prevail.
***
4. Android
scuttlebutt
The mango harvest in Hungary imploded
rather than being overthrown.
The movie has a hole in the bottom.
I've had my fill of plastic cups this summer.
Ignoring the presence of futanari has neither
entertainment nor educational value.
The communist system is not getting any younger.
***
5. a lumbering
monosyllabic behemoth
The first Yu-Gi-Oh!
video game for the
Nintendo DS features
two hours of hit songs
from governmental
bureaucracies under fire.
***
6. How
philosophers spend the summer
Nietzsche's
sideshow
is
spectacular
but can only
be
accessed
through
the
permanent link
in his
mustache.
7. The brochure
perpetuates stereotypes
Prime pheasant hunting land. No
singing, merely recitation in a
natural manner with no artifice.
The Yin to a shiny Rolex's Yang.
***
8. Honoring The
Present & Soaring Into The Future.
I have put a
picture of a
dish
of kimchi
on the wall
&
obsess over
it.
***
9.
5-Speed Ultra Power
9.
5-Speed Ultra Power
The soft
organic cotton
baby
bodysuit was
illustrated
by hand
as an
educational
aid for the
clinician.
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10. Avoid lifting
the boat
The Deputy
Governor has
a deficiency
of magnesium
or potassium
& is only
accepting
bagged household
garbage
& small homeless
dogs
scheduled for death.