G74 – Front line police

are persons empowered to compromise the law,
seize property, incite civil disorder,
take the bullets,
front line police?

front line police
murdered Oscar Grant;
most try their best . . . most are automated.

find lice, a fine-tooth comb, a typo in the status.
front line police wear their masks to keep peace;
fingers on triggers they tell us to freeze,
pepper spray flying, they never say please, on, in

front line police
backdoor politics
are each other.

line dancing: this sentences,
these mistake
sing the chorus
“love polices to pieces”
chew gubble bum.


Catherine Heard, Teresa Carmody, Stephen Voyce, Sharon Honeywill-Haddow, Rob Budde, Nadine Flagel, Andréa Ledding, Andrew Topel, Priscilla Brett, Pearl Pirie, Gary Barwin, Slim Volumes

G75 – In a gasmask

With mismatching damask suit set dress,
Alice set off to find a plunger to unplug some rabbit holes,
memory, details drawn in dragged breaths –
the outside world doesn't have to breath us.

The new father started to change the
masked gas, asking gaskets, a task breath
recirculated and recycled endlessly.

You don't get the clouds, only the rain
can't tell who the gas is
asking questions
comfortably confined in a bubble of your own air.

In a gasmask
nobody know you're a dog.

A tisket, a tasket, and a green and yellow gasket,
refine your pores and freshen your skin
mask how gassed your guest gets;
the masses won't be aghast at the mess.

Pearl Pirie, Bryne Helen Lewis, Gary Barwin, Andrew Waldie Porteus, Andrew Topel, Catherine Heard, Slim Volumes, Rob Budde, Joseph Brown, Amy Lavender Harris, Nadine Flagel, Andréa Ledding

G76 – My Frontpage Challenge

Is your backpage victory
old enough to remember the TV show?

Unlike my definition,
[which] alters the very taste of the universe,

my frontpage challenge
unfolds
utters interesting space-paste.

Those headlines are brow-furrows:
my CBC, my Pierre Trudeau
lasts only 22 minutes.

To convert my website to dreamweaver
is to weavesite my webdream into a converter.

Ohh, very nice is finding my glasses,
is wearing Pierre Burton’s bow tie.


Paul Vermeersch, Amanda Earl, Linda Steer, Andrew Topel, Bryne Helen Lewis, Maurice Burford, Gary Barwin, Catherine Heard, Andrew Waldie Porteus, Susan Shone, Nadine Flagel

G77 – I Make A

I make a mean bread pudding marshmallow look skinny.

I make a complete sentence mountain word out of a mole word mown gran cry.

I make a sentence more lenient, a twig crack underfoot, a shift, my weight to relieve my aching legs.

I make no noise beyond the rasp of my shallow, rapid breaths, a great advocate for animals.

I make a second comment, overstimulated by coffee on the long weekend mud hut; sit & wait for you, nasty face, and it freezes that way. I finally look like my passport photo.

I make a stake of fake cake breaking Blake ache flakes of steak take Drake bake Jake wake
an offer i'm waiting to refuse. . . . a life . . . my life promise I don't intend to keep.

I make a bed, with no intent to sleep mistake and I say I'm sorry if I've hurt anyone, human being, be a human being, being human unto thee.

I make a Freudian impression, stolen of course, from my friend Jacques, make-shift language out of discarded thoughts, precious baby, my gorgeous wife Lisa.

I make a mockery of the English Language.


Maria Damon, Brenda Schmidt, Gary Barwin, Amanda Earl, Catherine Heard, Laura Nichols, Nadine Flagel, Andrew Topel, Andréa Ledding, Bryne Helen Lewis, Sharon Honeywill-Haddow, Kathleen Betts, Priscilla Brett, Linda Steer, Stacey Nichols, Joseph Brown

G78 – Romantic scenario of

Romantic scenario of
semantic Lothario

boot to the head, changing syntactic stereo
ssyynnttaaccttiicc sstteerreeoo

Delacroix’s Liberty leading the people over the bodies of the fallen, raising the tricolour flag of the Revolution in her right hand, and brandishing a bayonetted musket in her left
or
Géricault’s raft of the Medusa.

Romantic scenario of
semantic Ontario

A Klondike alive alive-o
Turner's Burning the Houses of Lords and Commons
and Goya's Saturn Eating His Children.


Gary Barwin, Paul Vermeersch, Domenico Capilongo, Andrew Topel, Catherine Heard

G79 – This Tragic Battle

With words was won – whoa – with wit bright warriors turned bitter under a boastful sun. This tragic battle is as ridiculously redundant as the last one was.

Hit the nail on the head of snickerdoodle vs teletubbies may outlast the entire 3rd period of Jupiter's favourite satellite channel for magic cattle, beat this magic moment as the top song of the billboard 100 in 1960 paused on Christmas Day, and the troops played soccer on no man's land.

This tragic battle involved spittle, and a paddle... splattle.


Nadine Flagel, Gary Barwin, Kathleen Betts, Lynn McClory, Pearl Pirie, Andrew Topel, Amanda Earl, Catherine Heard, Donna Szoke

G80 – I Know No

I know no banned bands ate eight charred chards, green lights or stylish mathematics or hyperbolic gemstones or unconditional apathy or metaphysical longing or abstract catharsis or infrequent downsizing or languishing topography or symbiotic disharmony or photographic pavement or fatal reference or catastrophic reverence...

I know no nice one Paul Knots, Noh.

I know no clocks knock law which undermines the rights to speak freely and carry a big gun, no greater joy than love, nor greater pain than passion along this path tonight was the first word I learned.

I know no gnomes from Nome who need nod for nought; the unknown is not now but near, and new.

I know of no one named Shirley today, eye, reason, or reasonable solution, raison d'etre, domino dunno like those of plateaued bonobos, no like my no, norms for knockwurst.

I know no drag queen named "Belinda" officer. Now like what I now know; I now know no now like what now I know.

I know no Bob on Wonki, the tropical island paradise.

I know no Nota Bene.


Paul Vermeersch Linda Steer Neil Hennessy, Catherine Heard, Angela Rawlings, Lynn McClory, Joseph Brown, Priscilla Brett, Andrew Topel, Nick Traynor, Andréa Ledding, Natalie Caple, Douglas Barbour, Sheila Murphy, Donna Szoke, Gary Barwin, Nadine Flagel