Two Poems
Matthew Turner

Ressentiment

Rent up
ratchet.
More pleasantly,
hatchets.


King Songs

The King

bears

cost.

Our palms are

in prayer
over the dust-
fine

drafts.

1) carousels
2) stencils
3) webs
4) tanks

5) vinyl
6) various browns

The kind King

bears

cost.

*

The King

adds

compensation.

Our fists

punch the
elevator buttons
slowly. This is the

button order.

1) sprees
2) basements
3) tissues
4) vats (or radios)

5) Lilliputian
6) dive umber

The King

adds

compensation.

*

The King

bears

cost.

The aid is

on the ground.
The aid is atop soot.
The primary

loot is:

to rave;
to reek;
to net;
to hot (hearing confession);

to vinyl;
to sundry beige.

The King

bears

cost.

*

The King

adds

compensation.

Those ranches

in the air retain
clouds
without gold-power.

Puffs

a bender.
Puffs a membrane.
Puffs mesh.
Puffs a reservoir (catch them).

Puffs vinyl.
Puffs from tan.

The King

adds

compensation.

*

The kind King

bears

cost.

An arrow

in the mouth.
Another adequate
drink.

Oh, gulp.

Look, carousels.
Look, stencils.
Look, lattice.
Look, wound bows.

And vinyl.
And number sepia.

The kind King

bears

cost.

*

The King

adds

compensation.

So fertile in the

gulf, the
terraform is strewn with
filmy

gauze. Blow

carousels,
blow stencils,
blow tacks,
blow cars,

blow vinyl,
blow varying cocoas.

Blow the kind King

adding

compensation.

*

The kind King

bears

cost.

The king

during
resting.
Ill.

1) a skeleton

2) a carousel
3) a stencil
4) a web
5) an aquarium (hear them)

6) vinyl
7) various browns

The kind King

bears

cost.

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