Paul Siegell

2 poems

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*for The Ticking*


Astronaut polar bears
in ice floe homeless glacierhood.

.....FIRE OR EMERGENCY ELEVATOR
.....OPERATION

Pixilated slushlight.
If that's all you see you'll go blind.

.....• TURN FIRE SWITCH TO "ON" POSITION

Another call-to-action.
An elephant made of swans in armor.

.....• PRESS DESIRED FLOOR BUTTON

Double-headed matches.
Paperclip apocalypse fingertips.

.....• PRESS & HOLD "DOOR CLOSE"
........BUTTON TO CLOSE DOORS

Makes the roots a-my teeth tingle.

.....• PRESS & HOLD "DOOR OPEN"
........BUTTON TO OPEN DOORS

What's with you and my eyebrows?
Footbridges to the forest fringe.

.....• PRESS "CALL CANCEL" BUTTON TO
........CANCEL CALL

An amorphous conundrum.

.....• TURN KEY TO "HOLD" TO HOLD
........ELEVATOR AT FLOOR

Screw the stream—Whitewater rapids
of—no: Rising sea levels of consciousness!

.....Rafts out. All over.

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*server error*


...........an
...........electric
...........minaret

...........booms

as bite begot consequence,
..........................so hath drill

...........for
...........a moment

...........of
...........cyberspace

we were warned 'bout the apple—
...........wish we were (would it
...........have mattered?) about

oil

...........silence

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return to sawbuck 2.2

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Paul Siegell is psyched like a ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL to announce the publication of his first book, Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008), from which these poems are taken. "Let's get into the song!" Future titles by Paul Siegell include jambandbootleg and Trombone Bubble Bath. ((("Whooo's got my publisher?")))