Always Read the Label
This body does not contain an index, but is
Otherwise spontaneous, unrestrained, natural —
Made from the finest time-dated TV footage:
Ironic, absurd, full of self mockery. Shot
In one of those rambling clapboard houses
Like a brilliant parody of criticism
Which says nothing at all. Shut the jewel case.
Belief in God may not be sufficient protection
For the under-capitalised, so that
The following year you'll be back where you started
In a blood-spattered cowshed. You can leave early
(Weather permitting) float into a delirium.
"Shut the jewel case like a good boy" she said,
"History just doesn't happen everywhere."
You begin not by picking up the powerbook
But by deciding to begin. Here we are
Established in a freezing pinch of the feet.
The smoke bush is another example.
Inuit are at the top of their food chain
In the ultimate chemical dump. Boil water,
Cook your meat right through, demand a second ballot.
You can't get a solution by proxy
In any aspect but the purely visual.
These are real flaws in the non-profit ethic
To which is subjoined the machinery of this
My eclogue, old and well publicised in the night sky.
The entire braid can be coded as a sequence
And thus receive your troubled delegation.
Patrick was the name of the day as I heard it —
Slide into the seat, put your hands at the wheel
And feel our glorious Teutonic past. No bugs.
A fabulously elliptical house style.
Governments control this data. There will be no
Opportunity for lunch. Small business users
Are welcome on the field trip to St Elizabeth's
With chill-out rooms for true skaters. Our psychodrama
In a strange labyrinthine palace of ice.
It means something like "deep home" but with overtones
Of hatred and loathing. Things and persons always
Already Alien. The worst fears of researchers:
Forests haunted by shapeless apparitions
From the middle-England mail-order catalogue.
Why is it that a man seems so sinister
Wearing gloves indoors? Someone says "mind the gap"
As he moves along measuring table settings.
These are things and persons always already
Innocent in the soft verges. Don't leave the lights on —
They will kill you for a shovelful of small coals.
Martha, the world's last passenger pigeon, long dead.
Soft-feel fibres and drizzle-paint, pink on light brown.
This glass is wrapped for your personal use
It won't last so call Stewart. Gold in your teeth.
A floor-proximity guidance system
Will direct you to the exit. Remain seated.
Call Anne today on a quiet cul-de-sac.
Double car port, cheaper than renting, call Eddy.
Unsteady on his legs in Omega cottage,
He bent down to pick up the lion. This set,
A translated grove with low maintenance
Corals and sponges, comes with deep-yellow flicker.
She wiped the points of her nail-scissors to retard
Clonal reproduction and complete the crossword.
A Canadian cadence to that voice. Red or Green?
Slipping on wet marble slabs, we look up
At the LCD information panel. No trains.
Asda price, pocket the différance. Replace
The mindset. Up the broad avenue into town
Obviate the need for costly simulations.
The explicit limit of our instructions is
That the icon convey mean time to extinction.
Call it a "family" toothbrush, spin on about
Delicate gum tissue (bleeding round the teeth)
In the later bracketed line. Let's go for
Rapid expansion out of Protestant theory:
Quality, Deep House and Trance. "More relaxed" still means
The perfect "more relaxed" outfit. You'll need gloves
And a tank for surgical waste. Ishi, the last
Wild Indian of California, spent his
Days in the anthropological museum —
He just couldn't cope with San Francisco.
You can phone researchers and tell them your story
In unannotated regions of E. coli
Chromosomes. Transcripts completely updated and
Tastefully landscaped. Buy now, choose your own colours.
From time to time we may pass on your name
To other, carefully selected companies
That ferry impulses above the brain stem.
No live model could stay in place night and day.
Please select another channel. Pull the mask
Towards you and breathe normally to download
A fully-functional demo version. At the epoch
Of last scattering, ordinary matter
Was dumped all over the Hubble sphere.
Now the dim gods of death have in their keeping
Mere protein fragments. You take out bone marrow
Add your viral vector, put the bone marrow back.
Palatino is fine - but I prefer Caslon.
It's a genuine pleasure having you on board.
Dummies sometimes take the place of real people
To see how badly they might have been hurt.
We encourage you to watch the video
Which is for your own welfare. Everything downstream
Of the blood clot was either politically
Unstable or subject to hormonal surges.
It was "extremely unlikely" that the canisters
Could have broken up in the atmosphere.
What if the Continuity Army Council
Neither consented nor refused to complete the trade?
If no Wimbledon train is shown, take the next
Dimmer switch that comes on gradually
In foetal development. Pressure of light
Produces gold-plated stars. When does pain begin?
The so-called nonsemantic features of language
Never had time to be beautiful. Hold fingers
Horizontally touching your forehead
To show the amount. Tongue and groove boarding
In a plausible context, one of the plots
Is newly dug. These are voluntary targets
A little nonplussed by your stoical charm
Having issued writs, free pens and mouse mats.
A strip of brain tissue that hugs the surface
Causing a massive increase in drag. Implants could
Translate prejudice directly into votes:
A whole panel of buttons that must be pushed.
Pain without cognition. No other network
Covers more of the UK population.
Britain, perfect for filming period drama
And convenient for Eurodisney, appears
To be rising more slowly. The prospect of ermine
Keeps eclipsed former ministers in order;
Reducing the appearance of wrinkles, which are
Broader and deeper than one might expect.
Marching into the second chamber. Hello John.
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces
There may be no mortgage and no purchase
Despite low entry and exit costs. Most victims
Were homeless men sleeping rough but holding fast
To core principles. Sleet threatened, snow was alleged —
Broadcast on two cable networks. Making the dream
A reality, surrounded by spotty dogs.
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