"To Name a Few, Buffo" and "For Parts Unknown" by Joel Dailey

To Name a Few, Buffo

Must clown car
Must trance
Must Norwegian strumpet
Must spork
Must fill horse
Must lilt
Must lady finger
Must Oklahoma perimeter
Must EXIT NOW
Must indicate presence of mind
Must wallow
Must cheese geese
Must see thru
Must Bent Bug, Wisconsin
Must idle
Must step up your burger game
Must chemise
Must elongate brig
Must joust
Must landfill

For Parts Unknown

Confusion say
Loose connection
Need not apply
Nor abrogate
This life insular
Unshaven unseen
So directional
V sectional
Nothing furbished
No pre-supposing
A palpable hit
Minus the ennobling
Life changes
Its one polo shirt
Doffs windward
This day is ours
The field taken
Then marginalized
To a .

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Joel Dailey is the author of New Details Emerge (New Books, 2023). He publishes SWOOPCARDS from New Orleans.