taxi driver
We are travelling at eighty kilometres per hour
in a tightly curving tunnel
and he really finds it necessary
to get so close behind
the car in front?
Yesterday you were talking
to the boyfriend of a friend of a friend
working at Europol.
He was telling you about
the international distribution
of illicit testosterone substitutes.
Clearly the Brussels Ministry of Taxis
is in on the deal.
NY AIRPORT PICKUP SATELLITE RADIO JAZZ
the service of access
to continuous broadcast
of uninterruptable
jazz
the black SUV
its big black seats
the motor ahead
growling
on the street you hear street noise and planes
you get into the car: jazz
you get out of the car: street noise
the jazz continues – you’re just not hearing the jazz
broadcasts, webcasts, whatever
solely consisting of jazz
infinite conjugations
of specific subsets of jazz
radio stations for specific styles:
the delegation of choice
in some number of English kitchens
radios are playing Classic FM
to no-one because
the occupants are out in the garden
here a sole criteria: jazz
get in the car and be driven
Through the bois after nightfall
If you lived
in the part of the town you are leaving
you would often
be driven
through the forest
Driven
to achieve
by what, exactly,
snapping at your heels?
Relation to an abstract shape
Airdropped in Moscow
Or rather a smooth descent and a taxi ride
Land
Apparently Birmingham is far from the sea
But this
Realise a sense of place
Occurs in relation to an outline
Remembered maps
Trust in others aggregating knowledge
Making coasts continuous
Very far from coasts Feeling
unmoored
taxi poem
Moscow
contains
traffic
9/19
walking poem
Moscow
built
for cars
11/19