So [ ] data! Easy to awe over the skeletons, the flesh boiled back
to mere speculation. Look. what simple two-steps: zero, notzero. Over
under over under if stretched over long under enough: plain cloth. Under
over. Infinitum. Add a fragment and an order [ ] operation. Is my body
not also made of data [ ] a possible solution? Greater [ ] or equal
[ ] one. I, a notzero. Look, let’s not mistake a [ ] for [ ] parts.
The data are coming [ ], in bits nottoosmall to see. So much so many,
but take the weight of [ ] data, [ ] plenty. At a savoring pace. Over
take in small bites [ ]’ll get under, get eaten. Will never go bad.
Every time you suffocate you start over again, but it’s a dropcap that
rattles me awake, and I marvel. That you hold your [
]self so close to death and me
both. I don’t want to die [ I think ] I think I should convince
you to stay. Into your open mouth I breathe [ Knock
it off you idiot don’t take me with you]. I have thought of [ ] contin-
uity. I think over [ going ] Under. Over. Under. How simple
our woven limbs, my not-choosing to breathe. I think of untangling,
try to hold [ in. ] out. For morning.
[underhand] [hand over] [underbake]
[understand] [overeat] [underbite]
[overkill] [underside] [moreover]
[overthink] [underestimate] [overlay]
[understate] [overwhelm] [underlie]
[undermine] [overjoy] [undergarment]
[voiceover] [undertone] [oversee]
[overhead] [underground] [overgrowth]
[underfoot] [overtime] [underpay]
[underworld] [overwrought] [underway]
[oversight] [over night] [overweight]
From a distance of [ ], I heard squirrel feet hit the morning crust. I
hear the violence of [ ] writing, punctures, [ ] surface de[ ]tions.
On [ ] way to [ ] de[ ]tion—E, I saw—[ ] paused, de[ ]ting the
soft-consonant crunch of [ ] message. Would I have known to read it
[ ] the snow were less [ ]blemished, [ if ]
the air not [ ] fully reduced [ ] I found a bruise [ ] time
later. A bruise is not a hole which is some[ ] both added and
erased, but—never[ ]less—I was struck.
How do you make something when you’re right in the middle of
making it? Where did we beg[ ] again does it matter does it does it
it does it does it does it does it does it does it does it does it does it
does it does it does it does it does it does it does it does it does it does
Time more than you meant to buy and definitely more than you’d
prefer to be carrying. It’ll get eaten. Will it it will. You never know
when to say [ ] but if you remembered begging, then [
] How they all start: soft consonant, breath-flicked
flame, a draft and that’s okay: ACHE.
Right now my brother is selling and buying houses three and four—
[one] for each of his children I cannot afford at Christmas. What
you get when you choose to [ ] for a living. We bought
no wreaths or even a tree the year our father entrusted us with the
decorating. The spruce [ ] farmer out in Wakefield may not have
tallied our scorny absence the one-fewer-than-last-year. It was a good
Christmas he didn’t have shit. I choose to assume he is bogged in debt,
my brother. That we’re equally bothered by one or the other: [ how
[ ] to make ] 2 [closing dates]
] abundanceless [ ] hungerful [ ] interruptful [
holeful [ ] zeroless [ ] lackful [ ] muchless
] fragmentful [ ] voiceless [ ] mumbleful [
slackless [ ] acheful [ ] sateless [ ] wantful
] knowledgeless [ ] savorful [ ] punctureless [
pitiful [ ] howless [ ] chewful [ ] woeless
] companionful [ ] otherless [ ] assembliful [
failless [ ] begful [ ] wholeless [ ] bitful
] monotoniless [ ] misgiveful [ ] suddenless [
innerful [ ] doneless [ ] waitful [ ] carryless
] earthful [ ] touchful [ ] weful [