OVerheard Overhead More Forward than Right Here. Cheryl Penn and Chance,.

1

2 guards

NOW!

5 o’clock on top of a

 container

GO!

Port

side

men on the bridge

on my count

17, 16,15

she had left already.

2

INTERRUPTION

a heroic effort

don’t decide who lives or dies

YOU! you started a war

you don’t know how to end.

the heart of the heart is no longer possible

I choose

survival by proof -

a Legacy spirits on.

3

so

what now?

you confide

decide

Unearth your own peace.

4

meantime

my tears freeze

and the light dies.

? belongs

to all of us.

5

He smothered him -

no one saw that coming.

I have been patient

I need to go.

Do we know for sure?

don’t spend your residuals running solutions

throw the penguins over the wall

a lost hemisphere?

6

tonight

you will never see your world coming apart

in

a

line

of

fire.

Full watch

all day

the time to prepare

is over - we’re

harvested

one by one.

7

through

the finger mist

knife sharpened campfire

just look at me

trust me. 

the violin taught you

to focus

mistake on the bridge

its been 2 days

do you think

they’re coming?

Raven Frown.

sun on other worlds rise

lights flicker

caught in a moon beam

the engines

begin again

Is anyone there?

8

gloom shadows

smoldering gather

knock the fire with

wet leaves

a power saw starts

pliers

sparklers

undone zips.

is one of those for me?

I’m still deciding.

I keep wanting to

apologize - you don’t have to - we’re good.

WHAT??

annoyance brings on a project - always.

9

I’m not doing a project,

I’m keeping us alive.

Wait!

We’re Good

We’re Good

No internal access please

defenses are down.

10

We are

We’re Good.

they do it on purpose

you know

wild nuts

and onions

we must hunt.

11

defending is no

defense against hunger

don’t stay out after dark.

12

I’ll just be tracking

We’re Not Good.

Where are you going?

What makes you think

I’m a janitor            - these woods

go alone

and you’re dead -

or worse.

3 bullets until you think of

SOMETHING

enhanced

we talk though the

air

the waves

are you there?

13

we came down

so gracefully

a slow dive

of flickering lights.

Unshaven

but can you hear me?

What are the containment codes

you’re not going to believe this

but I see

your reflection in

opaque glass frames

unframed.

14

We were betrayed

by force

you know

my mom voted for her.

I wont leave you here

we’re still floating

after all this trouble

did you think I wouldn’t be back?

15

Torch light

burning bright

a man on top of the stairs

blue pipes yellow warning

more heat signals

mix and match

nothing from Audrey.

(around the compound

like

quick silver molecules).

16

Report!

Do you hear me?

Can you cut access?

I have to tell Kate to move

NOW!

MOVE!

Hollow cheeks in green lights

backfire

window fall

TAC Team with Choppers

Connection lost

we’re also leaving now.

17

START THE ENGINES

I’ll paint the bridge.

A car pulls up

with two men down

crimson seep

fain a breath

lonely tears stay with me

stay with me

stay with me

ok - STAY WITH ME

the void

the dark

the fall.

Is it all worth it?

18

I can hear the pumps

where

there are others.

the flickering

its getting stronger.

marks on the rocks

no joke

the best part?

quiet for a second

or longer

prefer forever.

19

The tracks are too perfect

Miles.

Run!

chop chop

blue eyes stare

into green

the raven warrior.

20

how’s the air in here?

the apartments?

I’m still breathing -

Manually.

I hear a car in the drive

way

His?

Central cooling exchange

oysters

move the people

to cool pastures

while I monitor

10%’s -

they’re on the rise and taking over

to higher camps.

21

whispers

dead miles

they don’t care what we saw

more passages

less bridges

on your knees

cut the binding,

help her

if she dies

he dies

22

rest in peace

that’s us

there’s a pressure door

game over!

Please would be nice!

Orange and Red lights

monitoring

do you read?

Go ahead

its good to hear your voice

you’re too stubborn to

die/live/be-not/be.

23

Mess Halls,

fires in our eyes

its backwards,

blocked

its all trickling out.

24

gather

and consent

to the jumble

my chair is shiny

and leaves rise in

unexpected breezes.

25

I cant just leave them

battling to breathe.

Station by station

torch light

unknown wires

hey -

the chancellors right

to feel

you know me

push together or die.

26

Her name is Trace

why do you think

I can do this?

she was on the bridge when

it left

you

did this to here

and there

you’ll have to fix her

spin a word

its stranger than that

like

something was jamming their waves

pulling their drives

rendering them unable.

27

static

the ark is not there

can you hear me?

pull the yellow wire

the hunters are back.

Raven watches

he slices

evil man.

How do you know?

I just know.

28

don’t waste your time

don’t mistake her

for someone who cares

the static got to her dawn.

her sun

can no longer shine.

29

Do this.

I need this.

Fine

the car pulls in

I’d better switch off

I’m not that guy

good.

She’s getting worse

no air in her passages

its not shrapnel

its trauma.

Is it true you created

a list of children?

30.

pressure

a small tube

bone masks

leather coats

feel

WAIT

the ship is still free falling

the locks are closed

by the way

I gave you

an order.

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we could have slept beyond

this

a wise man said, I

 need to learn when not to listen.

A wise man?

Thank you.

What now?

She’s Hot

septic

her blood is poisoned

its how we train them

to be warriors.

32

the weight on top

is bearable to bear

but she left immediately

red jacket

torch light

did that help?

there are always casualties.

33

steel fridges

reflect

glass lids

hand wave

cosmic kick

fire steam

black scars

you should have breached the perimeter

prepare to -

HOLD THAT ORDER

I have a connection

and

you’re being recorded tell them who you are tell them who you are did you get that?

34

10.32

10.36.46

back lit screens

the penguins are on course

can we engage?

Red Crimea

Green Lights

Brown Eyes

Traitor smile.

35

A handle to hot to hold

talk softly

the near-dead

hear just whispers.

Abby?

Wake up

let me hold you

back to life.

the fur was warm

where his body lay.

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the leaves are listening there 

is someone overhead?

still she runs through the forest 

alive with blue and oysters.

Can you hear me?

Words on the floor while They run

  tripped up

downside up

supervised motion only

for playbacks at half speed.

Encounters of the Second Kind. Petru Viljoen (South Africa) and Wolfgang Guenther (Germany)

Encounters of the Second Kind

Encounters with strangers

speaking (in)- different tongues

proceeding, alongside ...

parallel lines, in fact, does NOT

meet in the distance.

Not even

theoretically.

Optical illusions, mere

mirages dereflects the

thesis.

Not even if

one rolled one's r's.

2. Lov & koltcha - jeh maan!
   (Patois of Jamaika).
   
   Stóri bilóng ples.
   (Pidgin English of Papua New Guinea).
   
   Ek verstaan...
   (Afrikaans.)
   
   Sensoj, sentoj, sencoj.
   (Esperanto.)
   
   Tek in front,
   bifor in front tek yuh.
   (Creole of Trinidad & Tobago.)
   
   Mach' mich nicht an!
   (German.)
   
   Ma-n-éwen nek?
   (Tamashek.)
   
   Tafadhali umwite mtu 
   ambaye anafahamu Klingereza!
   (Swahili.)
   
   Jes, get me someone
   who speaks English!
   (English)
   
   I'm buggered if I'll do that!
   (Australian slang.)
   Does not meet in the distance,
   right.
   But the dollars do...
   
   Eyes, ears, noze, tongue and fingers.
   
   They don't care about the r's,
   but for the ones behind them...
   
   The essence of all:
   Profits held
   substantially firm for two years.(Business English,
   current lingua franca.)
   I'm trying to get to Michigan?
   
   Beg juh ah lift, du...(Patois of Jamaika.)
   
   Park your butt! Park it!(American slang.)
   We all leave evidence

3.

before we disappear without a map

Uxolo utheni?

(Zulu – South African)

I said: what's that about dozens

of dimes being worthless

in a Marxist economy

when half a bovine is worth its

weight in a real gold sundisk set in

formaldehyde, when you're a hippy

trying to maintain perspective in

a diptych depending on

perception while reading la libro.

Uxolo utheni?

(Zulu – South African)

Hoekom Rol Afrikaners hulle Erre?

4.

The posology of  ready-made letters.

The logopedian of my choice.

Drilled to roll.

Deus ex volutus. Curruque volutus.

Perro en carro. Prablema?

Well-measured airflow, isn't it, Robroy?

Front familiy leave gave.

Nothing of him grandfather.

Says mind able wife.

Soft through don't mother.

Interest asleep father's low.

Children wanted for found.

Brother fear cannot sure.

Aunt walking art following further.

Unrolling r's in 2^nd encounters.

Utinam redias tu papilio niger!

Hulle Erre...

5.

Rolling with The Timer -

The life cycle of the butterfly

does not entail it overcoming its

condition. Once a swallowtail

always an insect. Symbol of

the Soul? Bah!

Robin, no relation to Red Riding

Hood ... isn't there?

Him, her, grandma -

all in the woods?

- and the wolf drags a lot

of baggage around. Someone

should redeem it.

Machinations of languague – an overdose.

Should we blame God for the detail?

Or the red-shift?

6.

Red shift over the years.

Obtuse buttock poetry.

Robin Red Riding Rood.

Stays with me

when butter flies by

& Rosetta keeps on landing...

Just another 2^nd kind?

I instantly

decontextualized myself.

It actually was Cindy's

Deer in Casein...

The middle always knows

its ids.

& I went ironing

with my sponsors...

As I said:

Red shift over the years...

7.

Cape of Good Hope

acorns bound about

redirected

Derry red deer

mandalas - an

oak grove, a

rolling stone round

the river bending light abound

found, centred.

You can have your milk

and paint

a penumbra; umber

lepidoptera set in amber

jewellery for sale

lapaside at Cindy's,

there's heart in her tea (pot)

aeons shifted – petroglyphs

deciphered

rose coloured spectacles

needed.

It's the evening of the gods

selamathunzi

The Hoods will keep the

wolf at the door company.

8.

No kidding, fellow entomologists:

Pope Francis -

celebrating good hopes

on the upper deck of an A380:

a flying cape,

making contrails

for a better postfossil future.

10 km below:

Walking rolls at large –

there must be no parking

for bread (& water)…

Yet another far-reaching example of 

extremely meaningful sustainability.

It’s all Lame Deer,

no options.

9.

choosing this and not that

in the seeking - subjective lesson:

Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper said:

Mooi Loop.

Tao.

The hapless Pope; entrapped

to a car parked, even now-

promoting capitalist materiality

called

Soul in Seoul

succeeding

a white cloaked bison of a prayer

in mid-air,

attest to levels of spirituality

the sacred & profane a

necessary duality.

The Sioux realised the chemistry

of The Hidden Third.

Teresa of Lisieux:

on transcending our condition:

attain sanctity in continual renunciation

in small matters in the small town of

Davidson.

'n Boer maak 'n plan!

10.

The subs take obs as property.

The obs take subs as property.

Looping in rhymes...

As the sub- said to the ob-ject:

"Aren't we both rather perfect?

In all logics painfully related,

even digitally toxicated.

Intensively like child & mother,

one cannot do without the other..."

Rhyming in loops...

To come.

11.

Orphans, barren mothers

in reality

denotes

the one without

is sociological othering

owning

marginalised in deed

over and above and in

negative spaces

An object, devoid

of meaning. Dehumanised

Does it still exist?

Adding value:

in debate - the subject

argued objectively

from varied points of departure

Transcending the question

There's no winning

only working (together)

a humanist inference.

12.

 departure of the 2nd kind:

- bothering subs

- othered obs.

paper & ballpoint pen

lie still in the paper bag

& a cow with a neck bell

looks from the outer side

smiling at passing futures

of causes & results -

the latter still being

revenge for the first...

Mama "Have AAA" sits next,

interinstilling locals & globals,

emphasising the normative simple.

sun

should be reason enough.

departure of the 2nd kind:

- othering subs

- bothered obs.

13.

this place this

time.

Walking on sea shells,

petrified,

literally.

distancing, extricating;

people are weird -

dynamics of owning

land, idea, soul

The Middle too convinced

of its id-

figuratively.

• bothered obs
• bothered subs

14.

 the litteral & 

the figurative'

FOR HIRE.

?

quantums & linearity.

the dimensions of

the postpost...

declaring desperate aesthetics.

not selling 

neither revoking itself...

while others keep on

mourning voraciously.

saving the falls.

I got up & took my 

minivan breadbasket...

to live the ablative.

15.

Inclusive life after

constructed, oh,

so reasoned, uniform,

argument.

Can't live

with or without ...

bargaining the communal,

soiled, ground.

Soul cloaked, heart embroidered

on a sleeve.

How much (more) is

possible?

16.

 human(e) abduction.

oh as the

matrix of surprise.

interpretated tags & labels.

a very anthology

of consumer's wants & needs.

oneness & plurality...

arguments of soul & soil -

be treatable!

the effects of a 2nd kind

are physical, at least.

5oo feet or less.

I noticed all the shorts

coming into existence...

17.

Consumed in process
resistance in the round
about appearance of a
status quo.
Oh. Those whom look
in the mirror - who's
trick, who's
treat
who's fault is it all?
Assume this ground sacred.

18. 

Keeping cool

in humanity's pool,

there is nothing bad

in finally add

AN ULTRASHORT MANIFESTO

open to poietic plans,

vastly joining the giving trans

& meet & greet:"A PRESTO!"