it's the year of the police.

fishing involves sitting in a chair



what differentiates it from other types of sitting in a chair
is the appearance on a regular basis of a herring.




fishing involves drinking red stripe beers
one after the other.



i was told that the herring were not the fish for which we were fishing but were the other fish.

they were the only fish i saw.

the space of corporate-structured "leisure"
that q-boy
my reduced and reductive double
experienced
was situated on a lovely hill looking down on the ipswich river,
the far side of cranes,
the other world.


and one event followed another.

soon it was very late at night and i was in gloucester at a huge karaoke bar watching an amorphous woman sitting on a stool perform an unnaturally precise patsy cline impersonation.




2.

channeling:

meet cube-boy



cue-boy or q-boy, american international, today participates in officially structured corporate fun and goes to the beach.






2. two nights ago
an emergency crew
of fire trucks with a police escort
fore and aft
paraded the new essex emergency baseball team
through the middle of town
past my domestic cube
sirens sounding and lights flashing.

should there be any problems with continuity
should the blue team eat mushrooms
before the start of a baseball event
and find that during the third inning
things begin to change



the baseball...