BRANDON BROWN









Materiel Benefits of H

 

I’m comping at the bit as part of a thesis.

The thesis hagiographizes the letter H.

If you hearken to my thesis, my thesis will hearken to you.

Once I sat at the side of a pond,

Hearing the heavens hurtle thunder here and fro,

I sat and hailed the splendid work of nature.

The whole time my retirement swelled.

Having handsome hottie by my hip I had to hallelujah

But my happy hoots were overhearty, boo-hoo

And I stirred a duck from hie its hidden nest.

The duck paddled out and danced with money.

The duck and its partner and even the pond were all money.

I did not think the duck looked tasty.

My thesis started getting nervous.

I eared the events turtle under ears and rows,

I sat and ailed the splendid work of nature.

My whole consciousness became the space between the ts

In bottle, REALITY CHECK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Sort Of Defense Of H

 

A poneme lost irrevocably neverteless records its life’s work and te record
remains on te record as traumatized ortograpy.

 

An acrid spirit is roug pneumatics.   Tus will orrible grammarians syntax teir day:
is it proper to pure aspirate at te beginning of omo, i.e., te uman?  Tis gets te
goat of guys, te wise ones;  tey’re concerned wit umans, not produced
pronunciation rules.

 

But still spelling is rater bewitcing.  Takes old and’s toug to lose irrevocably.   Tat
is it’s like it’s as a scar of pure aspiration, from were te witces cast teir cruel
eirlooms and exes—wen I say “cast” I also mean it’s fixed. 

 

A poneme is and is not like a coin tat blares its mottoes.  A coin tat blares its
mottoes gets tattered, moves to getto.  A tattered getto begs coins from rulers
blaring mottoes.  But unlike ponemes, wit coins, you’re able to ave tree cubic
acres and go swimming in tem.  But like coins, wen a poneme disappears you
talk about te times it ad not disappeared wit tick regret.

 

Tis is not simply an instance of te epistemological “wat is te poneme in question
as suc” nor te ontological “wat is te poneme in question as suc,” but bot.
Because of tis, te defense wises to trow a birtday party for te poneme in
question, since eac day it seems to be recited from te bowels of ell.  Tat is, it’s
like te poenix or a magic duck, rising from te ases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Administrative Assistant

 

This is not the profession I was trained for.  Back in the bogs,

I meant to assume the family business

of chasing after certain animals

of which only one lived in the entire universe—

Literally unique so I can’t give you an example—

Of which some other human had gone the length

Of declaring the animal an enemy, but lacked perhaps legs

(Never funds)

to hire out for the finding, hunting,  and annihilating the beast

 

(example: there was a cheetah on a verandah who…chomped leg… made fillet
mignon out of… despite ecological concer… funded … bounty hunter … just cut
through the fucking rain forest and found it …  submit receipts to the foundation
for reimbursement)

That’s where I come in

 

It’s like that part of the Odyssey where everybody gets all freaked out by singing ladies

Ring that happy tune of money getting ready to boogie and I get ready to boogie

Boogie out of the bog and onto the pathways where especially hated individual animals roam

Some boar who gored Prince Blah Blah of Blahland

The boogie’s in my bones

In the rain forest

 

Don’t be surprised that many of us are fond of recreational drug use

It’s what they term a difficult and dangerous job

Totally on the top ten stressful jobs list

Administrative assistant to incapable purveyors of vengeance

 

 

 

 

 




Top Ten Stressful Jobs List

 

1. Inner city HS teacher

 

2.  Police Officer

 

3.  Miner

 

4.  Air Traffic Controller

 

5.  Medical Intern

 

6.  Stockbroker

 

7.  Journalist

 

8.  Customer Service / Complaint Worker

 

9.  Waiter

 

10.  Administrative Assistant to Mad, Rich, Incapable purveyors of vengeance

 

 



 




 

 

 







Brandon Brown
has written the following unpublished books: The Persians by Aeschylus, My Life as a Lover, Kidnapped, Administrative Assistant, Pool, Metaxia, Four Pre-Socratic Philosophers.  He has also written the following published books: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Cy Press), 908 – 1078 (Transmission Press).   He lives and gets hyphy in SF.








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