Poetry: David Lau

WHAT IS THE CAR MOVEMENT LIKE?




Not for these shits, no.
Sorta torn, a baby Aloha,
the supernatural J & J Beeper
King’s dual use industrial coyote
of where it was ginger
and garlic and chiles.  Zone.

Transition is itself the fist.
Marteldood all up in this Forever Godard,
chicken tikka ma-yesterday people making
desert night journey
through the glockenspiel-lapsing wave
like icy sheets of car insurance.
We’ve been having hella dog bone soup.

Yours Truly,
Souleymane








IN THE LOWER WORLD’S TINIEST GRAINS



There was, I was try…
the Burkeanism of that guy,
the Tennis-Court-Oathification stripe of a leopard sky.

“The fruit that exists in every way is a kind of sandal.
Refulgent with afters wildly reaching is open.”

And they fought very hard
to kill (plural)
people in Khost with Dark Star,
the LA variety.
These guys stick maneuver

on you
(“That’s what we do.”)

Line shatters dealings, virtues,
traders, treasures, comers, buyers, lovers,
mergers, justice, court, balance, weight—

the seal absorbs us.








BASSNECTAR IS PLAYING D LOT ON FRIDAY



He added masks didn’t conceal, super-added
a mountain recluse
in stack form necklace of hippotamus teeth.
In the shrine sculpture of Ishan peoples
leopard attacked the antelope doorway,
Moche style, between two snakes
in Eharo mask, at the high point of the year
in the Elema people’s calendrical divisions—
this was in the western grasslands of windy valley.

Each element ruins struck.
Sartre added,  “Is struggle intelligible?”
A Solo Requiem sung by Fandajikan Women.
Just blanked on it—there, acendrada
(deep-rooted) tórtola lakes
is the moving process permeating us.  Ditties.
Two na’an, amigo, plus amplification
teaches a deadly fighting style.

I love loving you a mouse.
But who are the actual people?












davepicDavid Lau wrote a book of poems called Virgil and the Mountain Cat (UC Press). His recent chapbook is Bad Opposites (Spect Books). New essays and poems have appeared in The American Reader, Boom: a Journal of California, Cordite Poetry Review, and Armed Cell. He teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College.