KRISTI MAXWELL
Says Otherwise
I am not bringing people in today
Enjoy this
in the way in which it is
To be enjoyed
The hand comes down a weather
A ham hitches itself to a bud
The ass-y bloom
Add up to a people
Saddle up and ride a people to their image
Their we-ledge
The peephole says otherwise
The peepholes sate an eye
Dead batteries do their death on a desk
They are lean there, lain there
Does a vote constitute (a) people?
Here
A battery-ied self is charged
A battered self is charged at
A new check card like a new check card
I require of my attendance to do its thing
in the stadium of that guffaw
I require of your attendance we un-tendon
this poem
That I make good
by tending my saying
Do we count as a people
and what?
To spread a one around with a this
A representation of black hair
A thing for dusting, glutted with dust