Many little negotiations of private / Interest embalmed with my love; Music for Porn








Attitudes of duty & debt esoteric
Securities fundamentalist pop
– ulisms negating politics like so
Many little negotiations of private
Interest embalmed with my love
My poems service you as well as
Waste demands what’s deepest re
– mains a delicate pumping sensation
Feeling this can’t mean this
                                                 — difference hasn’t yet begun

… common sense itself becomes a kind of pornography expropriation of my most intimate relations just as pornography becomes a kind of common sense everything bearing visible value, everything erasing the relations that produce it. So one must speak in the pornographic even as one speaks against it …

My own stench being what attracts me
To undressing you mean what I think I
–’m feeling dismembered in the touch
I still can’t touch or say the names fall out
For what’s not mine to name you softer
Targets yrs I want to sing what will have
Been my body where yr odor clings I hang
In excess of the system where we’re caught
                               — not sensing the thing that’s sensing us.


Music for PornRob Halpern

Nightboat Books 2012