Sous Rature - Urayoán Noel</p>

try city®

1.born of alarm 2.Mister Misnomer's streetform 3.against what movement? 4.daylight again (carport?) 5.parkway searches (seizures?) 6.today's teleprompter monologues 7.off crosstown bus 8.to hold on 9.to the edge 10.of things (here!) 11.curvature of city 12.(slit) slippage is 13.the variegated hums 14.of home and 15.loft parties and 16.open mics and 17.(slumming slammers? di-versifiers? 18.assisting the assistant 19.to the assistant 20.of administrative assistants!) 21.the last dose 22.of the truth 23.of man (whole?) 24.the body erratic 25.retro salsa bands 26.(sounds no more 27.like tropical trombones?) 28.skyscrapers thru clouds 29.wasted boys and 30.wilted girls in 31.drunken lipo limousines 32.hoarse playa throats 33.these pancaked pierrots 34.those (faux?) wacky 35.(faux?) designer dances 36.beer nausea stoplights 37.(Laforgue's Times Square? 38.hydrocephalic asparagus moon! 39.[adult?]videos of 40.downtowns on fire?) 41.spotlight uptown now 42.language poets already 43.spoken for in 44.drab position papers 45.on the fate 46.of the city 47.(the western Bronx 48.is hillier than...? 49.big bedroom's chilly 50.subway negligee's frilly 51.north of Harlem 52.means NoHarm dude!) 53.where others live 54.self in other 55.self as other 56.fate of man 57.feat of woman 58.performance of gender 59.hipsterpaper of record 60.classic soul collection 61.memories of infotainment 62.in acid-washed landscapes 63.as intramural cheer 64.oh democracy now 65.meet your maker! 66.highbrow maracas play 67.anthems of privilege 68.lowbrow maracas just 69.keep the beat 70.middlebrow maracas move 71.to Canada, quick! 72.this city isn’t 73.‘happening’ just yet 74.just testing! texting! 75.diabetes supplies language 76.already spoken here 77.spoken for now 78.already a part 79.of (collapsing?) community 80.let's scorn utopia! 81.advertisement culture crashers 82.chorus of stillborn 83.performers self-help e-books 84.solitude of night 85.reclaim the city! 86.(from its executors?) 87.this reggaetón summer 88.winter of jackhammers 89.snapshot synapses: (vaya!) 90.make way for 91.garbage truck pick-up 92.up and down 93.this (virtual?) Broadway 94.where anaphorae pileup 95.like rat droppings 96.like corpse cut-ups 97.like price tags 98.malt liquor bottles 99.downed in mixed-crowd 100.mp3 park benches 101.telecommunication sector holdings 102.special-interest laugh tracks 103.(failed?) performance poems 104.(forced?) onto the 105.page then split 106.into tercets (cities?) 107.singing now signifying 108.nothing but flight 109.back to sleep 110.now these lit...anies 111.(sic) of streetlamps 112.Wednesday mid-week traffic 113.still backed up 114.to outlying areas 115.where the meaning 116.of “outlying” is 117.laid bare (splayed?) 118.who pays the 119.fare for crossing? 120.always here not 121.back in time 122.to the days 123.before the monuments' 124.debriefing by brackish 125.and/or waterboarding pigeons? 126.Humanoscope® sponsored by 127.Humania the first 128.and only drug 129.approved to treat 130.dissension in the 131.ranks of rancor 132.demographics roughly (guesstimate?) 133.14 to 99 134.give or take 135.a few stragglers 136.(a few low-liars? [sic]) 137.lower-dosage holograms 138.of lampoon proletariat 139.plantation service sector 140.neocolonial escapades performed 141.off route n+7 142.text exit past 143.the (private?) beach 144.with (plastic?) palms 145.almost always waiting 146.to be greased 147.sad tropics of 148.discourse at the 149.misanthropic disco the 150.tropes of discord 151.the traps of 152.discard of dis 153.this strep these 154.scarred armament drives 155.tú sabes, tipo 156.bola global (meaning?) 157.dead bouncer on 158.the steppes, uncarded 159.at the border 160.VIP room (where/wear?) 161.for years the 162.theorists prayed for 163.crash for failure 164.to use the 165.word “systemic” and 166. mean it, man 167.(in a pinch 168.any “emic” will 169.do [epid/pand/acad/pol/polys/tot] and 170.yet it's hard 171.to claim a 172.polis [herd? clan?] 173.that's not semic: 174.poetry's pull/duty/condition for 175.being written/spoken/staged/marketed and 176.horizon of meaning 177.its demeaning/diluting and 178.somehow it slithers 179.across the pages 180.and abandoned stages 181.poorly mic'd [texted/nexted]) 182.lang it sings 183.the meaning's screening 184.sing! sing! (I-lungs 185.in the scream 186.that is what 187.we are) fight/flight? 188.clubby beached wails! 189.lang sound (sondas?) 190.in the sand 191.the TV makeup 192.makeup of nation 193.the made-up makes 194.of maids/nannies commuting 195.to made-up suburbs 196.where school counselors 197.watch meta-reality TV 198.on unmade beds 199.the litany is 200.always participatory because 201.when we become 202.one with the 203.tremors we start 204.moving in sync 205. with the masses/dem-asses/demáses 206.citizens that came 207.went and keep 208.returning day-to-day to 209.earn and burn 210.in bakeries shoe 211.stores banking centers 212.crammed into a 213.subway's silver sliver 214.(sin ver [so-wey!] 215.sin verso? [way!] 216.sin verse? [(ob)servers 217.(ob)versers]) here/hear the 218.litany is always 219.participatory because we're 220.in sync with 221.the mutable (phenomontage?) 222.flash by/fade the 223.technical school posters 224.with smiling youths 225.grabbing their backpacks 226.in well-lit hallways 227.to stave-off death 228.slowly (by degrees/digress) 229.“Uh, which wanderlust?” 230.asks Citizen Wonderslut 231.to the mirrors 232.(yawning...hungover...yadda...) 233.a fair question 234.for mute commuters 235.(muttering/huffing shoes untied 236.steady stride somehow 237.anachronistic already...ahora?) 238.superannuated nano onan 239.city rock steady 240.flow of passengers 241.like the plod 242.of legendary creatures 243.raised and reared 244.in faraway savannas 245.and slowly (slowly!) 246.remembering to speak 247.limewirerimjob poets post 248.listpoems in listservs 249.but I'm here 250.like an analyst 251.of assfaults (whose?) 252.crude e-satyr I 253.like it here 254.I take a 255.licking and keep 256.on ticking off 257.statistics (statist tics?) 258.you keep Europe 259.Kant's grounding sudoku 260.can't remember summer 261.museums' cupolas and 262.aqueducts both useless 263.(how then to 264.sitemize [sic][qué?] 265.to deduct one’s 266.take on downtowns?) 267.summer's faded undershirts 268. cutie being hit-on! 269.loveseat being sit-on! 270. oops! laughtrack's gone 271.you're drunk now 272.have been so 273.for some time 274.will continue to 275.be so entranced 276.by language that 277.can’t be overcome 278.the truth's you’ve 279.been around text-blocks 280.blocking out memories 281.of semesters spent 282.windowless qua cubicled 283.graying grabbing notepads 284.morning's glyph confounds 285.you at 3AM 286.when skin collides 287.with skin (scan-scion?) 288.you tire of 289.this nonsense of 290.detours through cities 291.answerless again (throat-clearing!) 292.(“um, clueless proposal: 293.let's conflate 'you' 294.and 'I' become 295.underpass to 'us') 296.a litany is 297.taking shape is 298.shaking tapeloop socialorder 299.out to go 300.blurry disarray of 301.uptown employees of 302.will-to-power-lunch (broker-than brokers!) 303.junior executives who 304.work nights (weekends?) 305.in search of 306.the lifestyle slogan 307.the lifestyle drug 308.the lifestyle lifestyle 309.spring night (hoodies?) 310.hideous hideouts (arrivants!) 311.sleep in fits 312.high (on doubt?) 313.sound (or not-at-all?) 313.locked glocal glocks 314.embraceth transient action! 315.(repeateth litany tomorrow) 316.voicedform: “a hidden 317.city’s never lit 318.no littoral as 319.skylines tend to 320.blend distend into 321.each others' shudder 322.in time to catch 323.this simple ring: 324.taste the tone! 325.stone the state! 326.state our truth: 327.we're factoid fictions 328.making meaning in 329.cities enclaves bodies 330.pawing at slacks 331.mechanically (our birthright? 332.flux) waiting for 333.another hard-won breath