Words for Empty and Words for Full

Kinesis

18 Kinesis The cutting board falls sideways because of the cookie sheet behind it and breaks the Krups carafe. I go online thinking Krups made munitions for Germany using Jews to death to find they sell the carafe for not much and order it, hoping slave labor’s not involved. I make coffee with the press-pot and notice that we’re out of painkillers for Sasha’s hips, when they don’t actually kill the pain, do they, just like I don’t really love you to death, I do actually love you for putting the green bottle of no more painkillers out where I’d see it while I was thinking, thanks to Krups, of tefillin, sacred words on parchment in kosher leather boxes strapped to the forehead is excellent devotional weirdness in my book and how many cups of coffee does this press-pot make? Sasha limps more and more these days, as do I, your ears are ringing off the hook, God is calling to say He’s not coming, a local kid was killed yesterday in the war, shot clean through the head. What’s clean about this? Dirty through, nasty through, toothsome and biting through, I’ve been working on the lexicon, all the livelong day. While my coffee’s too hot to drink, the wind picks up to tell me I better ask if you’d prefer hicok pages i-120.indd 18 1/7/10 3:23 PM 19 not buying anything by Krups, like you don’t want a Volkswagen, even though the new Bug’s cute, because of the six million instances of ash you’re a part of, like every drop of water’s a citizen of its cloud. We can do that, cancel the order, stop drinking coffee, use the Greek word “phylactery” instead of tefillin, which I enjoy saying, phylactery, it sounds like factory and prophylactic put together, doesn’t it seem like every second, if you stop, has this whole life inside it that is so completely yours, it would die without you dying to never be without it? I want to live to be three hundred and sixty two. We should have a new coffee pot by then that doesn’t makes us feel like we’re waking to genocide, though we are and good morning. hicok pages i-120.indd 19 1/7/10 3:23 PM ...