the Lip-Drive

lipstick+usb= Lipdrive

something I can save writings on
& have my lipstick to go.

If I run out of lipstick, then perhaps there'd
be no more spaces left to save documents.

find an engineer at MIT?--that's what Brian Conn said.

41

The body moves
in black satin, you
could imagine
how much leg room
could fit into
K's thought of it; he
takes the pencil
& something moves
his hand, through
the glove
onto the page,
dense matter, an
accumulation of himself
against white
when he draws it
& she walks
as traces of pencil
following the
line of what
he forgot.

Shower Curtain Couture: by Natalia Ryzhova

One of the greatest fashion artists my lovely Nata...

38

An olive green coat
cuts open
just below
the heart; a being
is justified to the middle,
we begin this way
at the center
of a page & come out
to fulfill whatever
spaces are left
unoccupied.

37

K cuts out
the blue
from the sky &
sews it into the
shape of a woman; pale
because tones are
sometimes geographic,
pearl buttons; the
kidney stone, she.
Drinks cranberry vodka
to deal with nature
as it becomes flat
as a screen.

33

The left knee; ⠀
her strut full of forward
slashes, everywhere
handicap in the
back pew of my mind / /,
the ground covered in
discarded beads K will
invent the proper climate
to pray them in.

28

The nylon scratches
at K's frontal lobe; she
struts with one foot
forward, cutting out
an image of herself
before reaching
the pixels it takes
to stand in place.


27

He wants it cut
at the rib cage; the
skin as thin paragraphs
of soft aging; hands
passing through yards
of _________
now exposed for
an audience to read
through a word
clothed in leather; K
watches from the monitor
searching for shadows
left on the ground, not
even she can see
how death is accumulative,
"seconds are softer
than clouds", closes
his eyes and
presses his cheek
against the womb
on her screen.

26

K is 'meticulous' about
chance; low notes
drop throughout his ear
to which outside of it
is just rain to them; a
hallway of mute profiles
stepping inside him, the
back alley
keys black & white
are not enough so he
replaces every other
major note navy blue.

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gonzales keeps his notes clean

excerpts from the Little Black Dress poems, for Karl.

07

He remembers in baby blue,
when Coco first tailored the
woman's suit, except he
lengthens it 6 inches above
the knee because she
had beautiful knees that
were hardly seen; two buttons
conjunct the cap as periods
to keep distance aligned, her
shadow throughout the
base of sport.

06

Only her fingers and face
touch what occupies the air, not
another's; it does not. Belong
to any other place, but that
which enters K's mind; a whiteness
cut by the release of black stiching,
while the rest of us watch
from various degrees. He
stands in the wings holding
a compass in his pocket, not
telling which way to look.

11

She is covered
in lines of restraining order,
as though marked
by solid strokes of sharpie; K
likes the pencil effect of
non-attachment to skin
and conceals every part
with cows & sheep; the
animal detected in
a single line, wearing
its last breath to keep breathing.

16

Hair told me
in one ear to "strut
the sentence like
no one's business" &
she swung her purse
like an exclamation mark
down a short paragraph
of silver sequence 3 inches
above the knee
without turning on the t.v.

14

She walks through
velcro of November,
wind covered
in a cap, listening to
the interior of soft black; she
likes the sound quality
of not thinking, but
being in place while
an audience
moves around her.

The Dance Revolution has started in a Philippine prison

Philippine jailhouse rocks to Thriller

The most popular clip is a version of the video for Michael Jackson's Thriller
An unusual physical fitness regime at a jail in the Philippines has attracted worldwide attention on the video sharing website, YouTube.
A clip of hundreds of prisoners in orange uniforms dancing to Michael Jackson's song Thriller has been watched more than 1.3 million times.

The routine is the brainchild of Byron Garcia, a security consultant for the Cebu provincial government.

He said it had helped "drastically" improve inmate behaviour.

And two former inmates have since become dancers.

'Discipline in action'

The dancing is compulsory for all 1,600 inmates at the prison in the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre, except the elderly and infirm.

Prisoners have also performed to songs by local artists, Queen and from the film Sister Act, clips of which have been watched on YouTube tens of thousands of times.

"Using music, you can involve the body and the mind. The inmates have to count, memorise steps and follow the music," Mr Garcia told the BBC news website.

"Inmates say to me: 'You have put my mind off revenge, foolishness, or thinking how to escape from jail, or joining a gang'," he said.

The routines developed last year after Mr Garcia started making inmates march to music, such as Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, in a bid to increase participation in exercise.



The inmates are very happy at the interest, they are always talking about it
Byron Garcia

Other early choices included In the Navy and YMCA by the Village People, which were chosen so that macho inmates "wouldn't be offended by being asked to dance".

Mr Garcia has been taken back by the worldwide popularity of the clips, which he originally posted in order to share his work with other members of the penal community.

"I wanted to show them that I am doing something here that has been a success, to show discipline in action," he said.

But the videos have now become a source of great pride for the prisoners.

"The inmates are very happy at the interest, they are always talking about it, and they ask how many people have watched it on YouTube," Mr Garcia.

And fans of his work can look forward to another three routines in the pipeline, including one set to the Vanilla Ice classic, Ice Ice Baby.