Tan Lin
obituary = Robespierre ligature
dichotomy-cellulose lipid baboon
fumble morgue threesome
loan word go ferrous
butane tax unguent fuzz butter
January: saw off their hands
black refractive Index: 1.34
loophole fog chronos hack
concrete division visor
absorptive capacity methyl-celluose
"we gonna sing to the goons 'cause
what? face shrag?
something won't hatch fire
human appliance = shit
dork throat dildo platoon B
Made in USA"
spoon jerk to chimp spurs a Lago
nipple the jeroboam
and it can't vote
military grade penumbra tear duct
electrocute gum Niagara
the casserole is white
eye + shit
what? pimp hole ball one tee
blinko picto catalog
"I am a corpse. I was President"
flat [slit] say "orange buffoon"
7am aqua rectum Muzak
the Fuck Foundation mausoleum
klieg bastille cluck cluck
no. II supine the aviary
proxy thumb vegetable
C+ disco
cogito Crack
it's purple up North"
what? what's clown to tree?
it smell like a horse
Trap I Logic:
Dimwit twitch plate
ASTM E2058
Flammability Using
event mildew
I'm dreaming
shit surface
incognate
corpse triplet receding
I fuck the window
a stool:
rebuttal liver mopped
delegate one: half shoe
people hitch bleating jerk
"Standard Test Methods"
Propagation Apparatus
1.4 color suffocated suffix
Jr. glug
secrete:
frag disco
trench substrate (Vol. IV)
blindness decapitate foot
the organs levitate in concrete
drape fuck (inverted)
American kickoff organ
max. retardant capacity
Measurement of Material
(FPA) duh doosie
sponge republic weeper
Ordnance Axiom
shit surface
dim ticker broom
I drink the matcha
flocked molar forensics recession
tidal rubber
football
polish the organ till it's great
Trap II Shots Were Fired:
Democracy Test
thermal response parameter
asexual
oscillation
cop
[chewing gum]
Burn ligature
loosie won't catch fire
apply obituary ditto discography
thermodynamics
it's that images are constantly
doughnut ejaculation
wherein no image
bit coagulate
of being shot
matter being thrashed
shells fluttering
cum +
1. ya ya why
2. ya ya I I how
3. ya ya I don't have a television what
critical heat flux
(TRP, [kW∙s1/2/m2])
repeats magenta
a few children grow draperies
soap in vulture
[flagellate concrete]
yearn car wash chokehold
civilization:
temperature mosh
it's not that images become less
subjugated into
imagery cripple system
man holds hole
mutilation answers
forensic retinal thrashing
images abort horse
c) ?
dip =
(CHF, [kW/m2])
I see the horizon
binomial drag
inside themselves
cuckold diaper
[I paint the floating]
what's a little paint to me
sow gum image to pavement
to the 2nd law
useful over time
shit matter
whip description
illumination
the door for fear
indistinguishable from
what's the diameter of the sound
the sounds painted b)
corpse
Trap III Image Ditto Figure 8
FOOTNOTES
{ =
RM: this, your silhouette hallway cauliflower
dictionary. You inquire:
"Uh Oh repose" seeks like-minded* generous, kind,
fun (D) loving #crispytenders shogi
blossom calendar coffee
paired to a beautiful uppercut
gerbil [pamphlet]. 4:
Cereal dimples your patented
@Daylight. Technically: you're strangers.
For you "yah delicacy" = ambidextrous
girlfriend. For you, who needs For sure, yeah yeah,
ok, please? Twice.
No #nograndiloquence of omnipresence.
No toaster in TIF-white toast.
§
No velour in stud potato (3)
The nightingale whittles #despondency.
Life's a big little box. Your pearls
arrive like coffee, pin the pinnate fronds
and unclutter my umbrella. I voted.
I'm your vase. I'm half-awake.
The painting in "quotes" LOL =
The panoply drops boyfriend
carnations and mop glass. It starts
to rain.
Yes, all cancellations due heaven
are Diplomatic/Yes, your brevity
lifts a long-winded year, and leaves us
In verdure, and oh, and oh so
{ oh }
Tan Lin is a poet, artist, professor, essayist, and novelist whose works include The Fern Rose Bibliography (New York: The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, 2022), ambience is a novel with a logo (Katalance Press, 2007), and Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004: The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), among many others. Several of Lin's performances and PowerPoint works are viewable at PennSound.
Lin's novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand, is being published by Coffee House Press in 2025.