THOMAS FINK
HE WORE A BUSINESS | ALPS BULGE. | TODAY’S PHONE OFFERING | DECONSTRICTED SESTINA III
HE WORE A BUSINESS

and wore business.              
Primping prime product.                      
Frock garnishes wages.  
A mosquito’s misquoting  

a simple blood cache.                            

Pumped, one pinup 
prices & pries   
& plies her        
simpering stumped pimp.







         ALPS BULGE.



Don't budge. A tactical 
  radiance quick badges                 
                        lend them.              
                         Zebra culls                
                       Sunday. A                  genial slap.                                        
                     Caress of                    a small, infinite 
                   rock. Cult                    loads balm,                         
                 shelter.                  Sigh thickening.         
            Belief, relief.            Is grocery 
               anchor              primary? The 
                 slow fast       was pudor’s                         
                   incarnation. Don’t 
                     marry a shikse 
                    like your cousin 
                     Mario. How old 
                   is your    computer?
               Warp buzz      of a rote
            activist’s                condescending 
       guitar. Tinkling.        Bolted down bulk tempts
     me to bolt. To             seek out an owl, refugee
      from editorial                  reek. Modesty didn’t stop him
     thinking. A                      longing to induce, tinkering one’s
     proper                                                       lightning sway. 
   Wayward 
  pontiff 
 doffs milky                              
  yarmulke, 
   terrifying 
the pious.









               TODAY’S PHONE OFFERING



an insane mallet swing. 
     Minimum fury embroidering 
                              convent secrets 
                            and manful                       suspicions 
                         on a billious                    mainstream.
                      Patio patois                    and a lush 
                   jiver’s flat glut.               Gauche glossy 
                    maggot hockey.           I threw the 
                      party out.               Deaf splash.
                        Lens leans        on rain echo 
                             tract. A self-winding 
                                cubscout pisses 
                                sadly on paucity.
                                 It is not sleazy to 
                             eke. Cans      trap fiercest 
                      Seine parcels.            A city, clarified, 
                    slicks back                      stiff debt stigma 
              to risk drill of                            habitat. Bride borrowing 
           a pudgy bridge.                                 Benzene haymakers vow 
         sugarcane.                                                          Divine. Gravelly 
           innards                                                                               
         traced to 
       hormone 
   deregulation.
Cannot 









blame angular baby 
   letching for ontological 
                      protein under 
                    blueberry                                 blubber.
              Have you                                   been saddled 
            with dice-                                   strain? What 
         nectar                                          can sew 
          mountains                                    immune to 
             venting?                                  Astigmatic 
              workbook                          with extra-
                       vagant                    personal 
                         asterisks.           Oedipus’ 
                               complexion acts 
                             happenstance. This 
                             root is a fake. I avoid 
                         eye drill with   an aggressive
                     safety nut.               My charitable                              
               teat forsakes                    usury. Without 
            an invoice,  I’m                      going to massage 
              it? Often tosses                 out strategic batteries 
                 that are new.                Dad, I promise not to 
                   lose any                        more  companies.  
                  We’ll scare                       up that servomechanism 
            that provokes                                             grommets to
          honeycomb.                                                           And slip 
        into the trans-                              
      national gat 
    flood as 
  rational                             
expend-









iture for production-rich 
    chording. The thief wouldn’t 
                      call you. Infections                                      
                     saw  something  stall.                                   Son, let
                    not your messy                                         macho 
                strangle an arrogant                                  stranger                                          
             (ancient, bleakly                                        familiar) on 
                a desert highway                                   because  you 
                    might be lulled                                 into contractual 
                        congress with                              blindness. Stray? 
                             You vote to                          destroy. Purple 
                                    carpeting                   depreciated by 
                                      yolk  scum.     Fate slut bitterly                      
                                        inconveniences the  whole 
                                        tribe. Bituminous phlebitis 
                                         syndicated  by  clenched 
                                     unreason.             Our leader 
                                promises                      (tacitly) a 
                           coroner per                             corner. 
                       Imperial spill                                 imperils 
                     loose inventory.                            Short mop 
                        instructions                              follow, elect-
                           rified. Prole                          soap harnessed,
                              a largely                                antibiotic slate, 
                            inspired to                                   chop irregulars.
                          They don’t                                       want his appalling 
                        sincerity to                                                     be reelected.
                      Echo tract                                                                 reins in
                       dividends. 
                   Daring a 
             sewer mob to
          go bipartisan and
      package  efficient 
 vegetable electricity.









DECONSTRICTED SESTINA III




Fatigue defers. To novelty? The ball behaves    
like a lozenge, and that foulmouthed devil 
incline recedes. I’ve tuned myself to push  
with ebullient efficiency. Your TV service cackles 
to irregular mountain rhythms. At a memorial 
service, several advanced mourners must honor independent 
fatigue; others, irrationally ebullient, batter gloom primordially. 
And the ball grows all the way 
down. This incline abuses our portfolio. We, 
who should soon retrieve the lost, the 

loss, with value added, had chafed for 
emotive headroom, and are punished. A devil 
whose face has never appeared on blueblack 
posters or placards, that devil whose distant 
fancy has conscripted me to fraudulently weightless 
service, relies on mud enhancement via climate 
teeter for the torture jollies. When you 
incline toward your “destined” fatigue, I’ll be 
a pal and remind you that the 

ball is not the sole curve, ineluctable 
insomnia. Here is a mountain rapids’ ebullient 
periphery. Ebullient with liquid psychotherapy. When the 
double-shift camera worker curves out to 
a candid mirror to brave whatever astonishing
devil has collected there, you will be 
fit to linger until eleven pearlescent fish 
skin. . . . If he tosses the ball too

low, the service will thunder into mesh. 
He may incline toward authorities who butter 
a contract, not yet viewing how the 
incline down each evening facilitates a shortening 
horizon. This grand slam victory was no 
ebullient gathering of hard mass, but a 
guarantor of fatigue, as though a studious 

evil had calculated where harsh competitive slogging’s 
rage edge can bore an ulcer. Service 
industries must invent another mode of ball 
for those herded into retreat by the
outsource prophets. Could “my” ball incline to 
break up? Who told you this service 

is eternal? Try doubting such 
mythic immortality. I’m prepared to 
be ebullient about prospects: minimally 
reiterative challenges. That “my” devil 
sports a master’s in fatigue- 

planting is just another reason 
to befriend some local herbs. 
Dripping fatigue may be a 
constant of much employment, until 

the ball drops on this 
dysfunctional management era, until the 
devil outfit can no longer 

rely on its camera pool’s 
branching intelligence, till unionless subalterns 

incline to ebullient renunciations. First service.