KEEP PLANNING time / space / about #068 Christian McDonough Several Poems

1 Daftdarkdumbdim bin run from melted sun Shear sheer here hear Cut the cockrel from willow spear Rack the brain against itself Hold the tight waterknit health eek out sublimity met With all the shrewd and housed guest West, turn, ward for herd Where sheep were-sheep black blotter burn the urn the turn Unmade by sworn – ultimate forlorn quack me out mother and burn the stern um cracked backed up at Against stack and stallion knack Lack slack – s in sat 2 India poem Catcum slow bum I love her rectum India poem Beauty supremum Excellent speaksum Espanol 3 Sacru- My cut too You bles- Mouse Guest She left less Than emp-ti- Nest me In sour sweet tree Stump lun ging forth foul fowl through Grail of shining wetted brew Ape me gone to netted knot Squeak me dry and quest me sot Sought out to thought through I do what I can too to For you from us we sat sit emp tinge crack cringe crew I take us all along with you who when Through No more no less No more guest Leave me best And shake it who Not out but through Not one but two Waste waste waste slew The dirt shines fru it flies ou way coo ped up-ped in-to lou Pee pee Poo poo 4 In t o ro duc shun me but buck me for ugly in tuck Sun stuh ruck shiv me steady dead wrecked complete no head Ick ache ike can’t blend to barren baking beck bat burrow burial shroud ignorant clotting clod cloud Blakeblackbluntbled dead dead dead head murder maketh mange of meat shudder shutter shun his keep Make him marry his mother mad Make him hurry his blunder bad Make her scurry away so sad Make her slender and slink away sow sow sow sow cow wow woa way Give way give way None to done who sunder sun Empty crackle shunt her swet Bled her bloody body wet To debt, to debt, to debt 5 Towards it Reaching towards it Whatsoever… The lack… Whatsoever… Tending to It Relishing in the knowing of It What is It It is… Recognition of self in Same of other and Knowing What comes and Knowing What is here With whatso Ever comes In mind held Is It…as A…soul Has…breath In…known For Another Other One Well… Why not one When two was well For done in so End come swell Dwell well there so no More time to take to too Well, o O, well wanton wish Of for this as bliss To know, to know That it goes so To ward well off of Grow, o O, grow — no show To what is woe We know then now That we have done It, for its own For its sole Purposeless Bless this Bliss list Less shifts On to ward Off tow it know It show 6 Insouciant shuck shit sit but bit To what cluck luck fuck tit With weary wonder full fit fir Fur fear of wipe ing it To cater cat lumps pit wit It in my rape rip shit git Get gut cut up from the shunt The shunt. Stupid ugly fucking cunt. Weary whips witch when hit ag ainst im done when round ed out if when stick hid is fig ured curt ure al of muir al. When I regurgitate and mutilate The ubermensch I thought I ate. In tomb ed Ucate the wa Strain dough fo r er, she, her, whip Ooo I can’t straight my Self Again. I can’t make my Self Again. 7 Hair black as a devils dog And dogged to doubt he that Cretin creature done to death in debted Hells of hounds harried And Harrieted to wash none dirt of Death dead death dead For there in blackness hairs pricking prick ling touched to tomb-like tumescence-ent et cetera so soured and sores sored out from them Then to which cures or is cured… For the hairs black tender cursing crawling up out From legs rested nested into onto upon one or the Other… Father, father — wrest me from thy breast a Washed wish for women For men My momma doesn’t know, won’t show nor see Not seen of me Not me as I mean, as I’m meant To be For else wise acted acred too Funky funless freedom founts All the whoring does amount But none so found so free so then To be Or not Or else Ot to other wise Ways It do or does then Decay —- for what? 8 Insouciant pequant I Perturbate you rot I Make mince in for got I lake leak your thought if You got watt I shake Out your rot I blake out Your knot to waste Haste haste Make to for Paste due core late Shallow black nasc ent nataling crake cake Take shake Make make Haste Baste me mother mom Take me mother bum Taste me leather son Waste me leather nun! In To being some Thing In Tomb ing ing Rum Slave I stave off my hunger I force against blunder I kill upon the State I make unto thee Mate me Mate me With the fairest of My hand Shame me Shame me I’m tearing up The sand 9 Deadcourr Curr of Court ed itoritional plain Jane she Maries me Off mine done for these Ease cunt of place wash Taste Egalitarian laste mast e pelun ium kratorific selendrific Cylinder. She wash buckets Familiar In corpor eal ation to ack or tinge her Nation. Wedwillworrywom Som e son s so No more In door Swimming ssssss tool. WhenIPissedInThe PoolISribbledMyDrool I wasted my loof a ta crepe out a Waterbedwhale Agutguyshale I cannot be Coming for Me. 10 Diligent danglers who derange Their bed manglers who Strangle me dead weight to Rustin in bed wait I can’t make out full strate I frust my great weight to your Puddle butt budding creature Crack me silly facsimi le me to worser of trait Cherub us Sherise cherish us our stake Steak staked in heart of men Mankind wunderkid worrier I Am alone Alone for you your death dead rest Less Less than notnothingnone Forforgiving out forfun None 11 Shat shatter shake shimmy me Mine money mummy mum me Whistle whisper worry free me I can’tnot knot ye thee be me free Free free the frufru it fruited it out me Out me out of thee ye gone from out ours 12 Dangleforth dangle for foto it en toto Ent ity in city c cee cee me I see You are with out me In my full home house mess Mess me miss ed of ucati on the brink of in- No more meaning for No more meaning for No less days pass I still remain lass Less Unhoused Unbound Unread Unsaid I am in fact of course Dead of all sense and Meaning and being and lessless list less Make her sit throughthis Thoughtthrobthethinner rottombrobbing of dinner 13 In con seq uenc Or t For apes Be taints Edging out out sme ar of pap a lap of thee racyrestlessrugged rat The sexless insignificant hat I can’t rape thee offoutof The Sanc tity 14 Don’t speak of Me They don’t under State that we Can or can’t Black out of swell sorrow ofon morrow 15 Inchfinger thinkthought blasphemeThenThrough ought out from mist-filled mine minds out sought for out lo Lo and be held then there fore The that that wish that That wish wish that For this this that there fore firedprioredtoortoward For reachingoutfigured out thenandtherefore where when What whas whedded whet end for all an angel angel angel deadwaitbranded wasteoutlanded angel angel angel Weary wear wares worn Out from angel in herehome hoar hoarse whore shore I wish I wake you up unborne Wornwearywastewash Wash me clean and wrestmewrought rot rot rot away Clean me deadening editing bay Shove me down and stick me clean Make me mummy and make me deen Deed need furrow my seam Seems a mistery weakened to gleam Washered and weaned Wetted and steamed Make me angel make me beam Wash me wash me wash me clean Wash me clean and make me seem Somethingsomehow not obscene Obscene obscene this all scheme All schema all steama all miserymeme I wishes I washes I waste sit way Away from watching I watch it I see And again again I gleam I seem I seemIgleamImeanIsteam… In to way was Off to day does What will worry when I age against again 16 purried poinding putted pout pissed her pissy and bliised it Tout Taut her daughter how teaching ought To tinkle her tater her crater her gout Misery misery misery might Make me murder ed earlier ferv escent ending in doglight Innard blurring of fairfight Inn her stay her welcome had Inn there way there haggard bad Ouch ouch ouch ouch I flake off skin off all off out I am nothingnotnettednotknot For the lout. For the grout For trout. For doubt MIKE, I might Have to de light For nothing For no one. For notty For norton. JANET, I hop e your bussum Tight For Well For Sore For Sin For Seek Ape, Ape Incessant Sheep 17 Black incessant in frigid feet Feed feed wreck slut sleeve Ugly tainted unmoored un been Unknown for ugly and putrid scent 18 I am in heaven I am in hell If only I told you what else to sell If only I ever had reason believe Why any old one ought ever be Free Free In side me Insight sigil soul Wrestless fee Fly flutter flout au wei Oy vey oy vey oy vey oy Yay! Gay. Ugly stay. Make me munee and stow me Lay Say What ever the hay 19 Frigid foulings of grand delirious triflings ah cake out the shiver ingling for driverie ah Tale ah tall ah wall o it all it wash ridden wash bidden to oar it ah given to – So soul soly split – twelve of them deardownta all sole idiot Bit bit by for it it well when weiner whorlordor greater tha ignormorr When shehe held high hit wha’tever thee sineholdsplit Wish methe netteronewit ach ache the cell o fit fir Fit fit. In to oaesis sit And wait For this it this it is it To for be – souls sold For soulless sings sins And worth life lives its in it wellwish it this thin nit 20 Ee n N do to doto todo fo Ro ro roil roll roo ling ruling Gool go ghoul ting sing Ring ring! The dog bear beer is here! I am mm m mm m ll ll oo oo uu uuuuu Sour sour sore sour l’house l’hous hou Hour ho who who return dearn leck prous Shurn um stum bum pum Een seen mean bean wha whaa aaaat 2 whaaaat!Why.who.sigh.

***_____  Christian McDonough’s work has appeared in Hobart Pulp, Bruiser, and D.F.L. Lit. He is the author of the poetry collection Book Of A Thousand Poems, the novel Cunus, and is the editor of the collection Cunus Response Project. 17 October 2026