from My Aspiring Villain







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so put-off      gloom over all      a kid      sky humming      hungry
& he stumbles 	to weld whose attitude ang bilis 	one daft punk percolator
stolen		noone unwitting	void rights to		the call 	  colonial
why rim them	    	bear the daze    	Kaleidoscope Lit	toilet INRI 
owing to usual flippantry 	 duraan mo     jack-off       hate hidden bench    opportuning  
priestly messages     the sheer madness     child in a manger     you weave sick muses 
forged an abyss     	emphatic men 	put-off	      more counting  	your galling sky
Papal ruin sky owing metals 		padded ruse mockingly 	summary waste
summary space an entrance     towards Thebe’s engine     Gaul     lay flock     empire’s aid
Huns weave away     width invalid	lost tanks 	sell out a moderate heatseeker 
you’re born with reason     aesthete & fascism     museum of babble sense     Louis’ France
burned into ink      retire the Somme      Simon, Theodore, &     Alvin, I prefer the real, yo
demand open ideas     ye gods of horseshit alive next door     de Legazpi’s imago
leaden referents 	unfamous deaths       double your madness 	     tangina nyo	 









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A-List ruse 			whose attitude ang bilis 		covert


hokum ruses		channels	sobs erupt		whose hostile oceans
to rest easier	   witness to ordeal	 exhume Orion enemy ruse        de Legazpi’s imago


amnesty	disheartened terrorist		the all-time hater owes you
Odyssey notarized		coerce poem		dictates of the time hydra
Forrest Hills 		briss hurried		DiPlo arrayed		regain odds Taurus


rest if Percival will avail her			A-List ruse as steerage ill-use striated


conscience aver favor to ascend a treatise early ruse ye gods of horseshit alive next door


this taunt’s daughter		tell it	   on whose common seas you bed her  	Telos


mired pabling		Royces race		habeas will interest 	   eye of the fish
& may tire this heart here		the all-time hater’s ode	 a dumbbell country
Forrest Hills précis			Fallujah				new ruses


Army sauce ta-dah        luddite kids spelunk atoms     volumes formalize aluminum
no Esso station here     Wisconsin tough bred profiteer     museum of babble sense a ruse








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a gust combs through Iraq corrals armies two-color sphere an ornament
hey Moses averred us to deliverance here mere walls no talking nice this hour
look at us stubbed to rob a dour mind de Legazpi’s imago bite mga alimasag
pasensya na lang, Leda    this Elysian noise solicited       aver cadence
aint got with Thrace	Thebe		museum of babble sense	Louis’ France
death hinimay	   buckle agenda dare we hustle the challenge     hand of god 
hindi Rizal to lesser foe touching 	ye gods of horseshit alive next door 
make us want it kung di man ornamentalists o call em fisters commode gestalting
matching asses wanting o glistening spirits justice combing eye of the fish I chew off 
declare it Tecumseh lynching Detroit assembly combing through Illiad
assuming Cam1 forensic bilinguals 	  whirling Indio	I prefer the real, yo	
assuming Cam1 to liberate Ahab the redneck invention of licentiousness
meanwhile I sedate King Lear	meanwhile I base no detection
Saturn amend one frigid autumn comet all hail Pegasus o Penelope elope










Googlism For My Wimbledon Love, reprised


ever since our miraculous return from the Valley 
on our last legs then, wounded, but
	together, unbeaten


you’ve delivered the single with double blows
you serve, chase, & volley later
	in the afterglow


of a sun setting into the margins of Brooklyn 
where I wake up next to you in the evening
	like a pleasant sea


no more dying in your arms in a dream
whose dominant player with way killer service
	now practices with us


you’ve reigned as Open champion ever since
& I am bound by the weight of your beauty
	in your back foot


by your flame		your lingering kiss
      	your birthday backrub 	       	your chocolate


by your cities of old world charm & memory residence


by your value which you will surely be judged 
	in time


		among the constellations