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  • excerpts from Iron Lung
  • Jim Goar (bio)

Humanity ties remnants of old bouquets to new and modified forms. Our reproductive traditions consecrate inorganic borders by legislating nuclear cohabitation’s misanthropic shell. Mummified offspring yield germinative affections to technology’s necromantic arbiters. What unverifiable network mitigates my primordial foundations? Cybercryptic versification captures extramarital transmissions in intricate webs of filial polarization. A privatized menagerie fathers absent relations with the crown’s democratic inhabitants.

Every boy now lives in a bubble. Internal optics fuel transpersonal divides. We must first isolate acts ingested through observation. The guillotine is memory’s physical means of transportation. Watch how demarcations shape our tv dinners. Inherited penitentiaries metabolize the ontological proof from which societies ascend. These unverifiable collusions don’t require a footnote of departure. What in depth necessitates continued disappearance? Famines exhume byproducts of antisocial institutions coalesced around ephemeral order.

Nationalism is a self-perpetuating abstraction. Memorial Day resonates with songs of surplus value. This theatrical rebellion furthers manifold relations masking oppression. An utterance isn’t bound by etymology but by the laws that cover it. Freedom’s idealistic dogma forever mystifies those tied to its moorings. We are the product of cosmic husbandry. Patriotism stills my beating heart absent carbon’s ecological cohabitations. Why must Taps crescendo into superstition? Spectacle is woven through eons of static. [End Page 96]

Jim Goar

Jim Goar grew up in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of The Dustbowl (Shearsman Books, 2014), The Louisiana Purchase (Rose Metal Press, 2011), Seoul Bus Poems (Reality Street, 2010), and the chapbook, Whole Milk (Effing Press, 2006).

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