***

In their cores they plotted

better than Asaji

 

Premise 17:

Moon-invoking leads to executive producer

Factory made

Journey to the nice side of Tehran

Don’t meet Henry

 

Fonda identified children in Rome

Shook hands with mothergram

Forgot Manx

Didn’t waver.

 

Dogs in the dog café

Were not magnetic at all

 

Additional meaning can be found beneath the diplomat, well-oiled, certified, pirate mad

continue your illustrious career

 

drenched in school

pick-me-up

 

thirteen days later we could pronounce sphere

 

To every gordo that barred the way

Seem large

Soak the respectful ones

 

THAT BEAST // S. R. DELANY

CHAPTER 1

That beast belonged to the terrible genius of Outcome and Sal.

Sal died

Outcome joined Oxfam

 

CHAPTER 2

January

Bermondsey

No grass

 

CHAPTER 3

Outcome accepted winter, watched voyager

wanked over two year olds

 

CHAPTER 4

There’s no place for you here, hissed Outcome, outside the international school.

 

CHAPTER 5

Outcome waited for the teenager to not pull her skirt back up then corrected her grammar, told her eyebags produce character.

 

CHAPTER 6

On a clear night, they all took a shot at Outcome.

 

CHAPTER 7

Is there a science to all this?

thought the beast

while scanning the seventh level brain curves of Outcome.

 

EPILOGUE

Sal not dead

Sal in Zagreb

END

 

Ancient plastic

Washed by well-wishers

Denied oil

Who here is not willing to suck off Aslan?

 

nÃO[n]

The king knows nothing of this iron his shirt bring him to Nintendo pay the workers fair no finger chopping

Kay?

 

I’m sorry Chopin

Your website is shit

 

Argh

Next thing I knew I was back on my ship

Saying boon

Some sort of scholar

Saying boon too

Neither of us plans to read Dune

 

Blocking the cave works for a short while but then they learn ‘are you allergic to…’ and we flee

 

to this planet

Interface calmly

never take a gun to the outlying terrain

 

Space Precinct dry your feet

Devour AOC

 

Delay passion character reason use “wai zee” divorce Wang go back to back we never wanted a second season that’s Ted no it’s not Ted Ted can’t

 

Olham!

those Metal-back engineers broke star gate no excuse this time not even sharp good suit good contract

 

Rewrite 1982

Say no to Beastmaster.

 

Cryptessa?

She noticed the planet twice from the greenhouse and again from the factory bar, Blake noticed her too taped her wings made her the lead in

Jzunt Juk Natzchi

Space Hike in Slovene

Crypty did okay

 

SIM

1971

With Soledad Miranda

 

Sim

Duplo sim

 

Preferring Babylon 5 is not a crime

 

Short

Long

Condense

cancel

 

Some of John Wayne’s best friends were blacks with an education

They watched Hondo together

 

Don’t get up Morrisey, just

 

278 page poetry

behind the Kuiper Belt

begging

 

boots riley hang there clean

in your mother’s starship

ZEE ZIK

metal cheap raw dilithininium torn sign crew of intern why you people still read the hexad shit’s old and

Fong sum

 

You can wank, it’s okay

It’s fine

Wank

You can

wank over Luther, wank on his boss, wank over suicides, wank over Sunday, wank over EVA, Seven of Nine, Seinfeld, wank over Barry Lyndon when you know every shot’s a painting, wank over Pluto, wank over getting there, wank over its moon, say it’s a planet to Ray Wise

if he asks

 

The Queen was told

The King was told to hunt the mirage

But

reformed the post office instead

whipped the queen

good guy

 

King

King

King bing bing

More stars than people, king

King?

 

The time for kings is the time for taking white paint to history books.

Say the castles were haunted

The —-dom governed itself

 

Why you call time squad time squad

Terry?