WHEN THE ARAB APOCALYPSE COMES TO AMERICA

“The End of the World was a nightclub.” Saeed Jones, “Alive at the End of the World” a red sun a reddened sun a red beginning an ending sun a red reddening into a sun a red beyond the red americans call sun a pink sun a Dearborn midnight sun unreflecting a pink sun a sun washed pink a sun bleached of its flesh a disco sun a glaring shatter beneath every pink is a red craving its own flesh a pink fleshy sun a red bleached sun a black hole craving a fleshless sun a quivering sun a spaghettified sun the mornings fragile tubed glory a sun refusing to pair with itself a rancid sun an intifada of homosexuals a bleach guzzling sun a crowd of holes guzzling bleach an Arab dawn a holy aubade an Arab dawn chanting STOP a book with a hole in it STOP a book with a sun at its STOP a crowd with a hole in its heart a crowd chanting the sun holy an Arab mass a s h a t t e r (i) n g collective a queer queer night a sun craving the night's hole the sun's mirror saying I'M JUST A HOLE

BY GEORGE ABRAHAM

DADDY sun a sun craving its own fall its own red a sun sub

-optimal red a red redder than the red of STOP a daddy sun a murder of fathers a bleaching of crows a turtle LOVE IS LOVE a laughing sun a guffawed hole a nostril sun JESUS with a hole in his handhearthole JESUS snorted sun son who bears a cross of coke STOP salvation of sub

-missive sun a crest whitening sun STRIP a teeth-lined hole rimming STOP a crestfallen sun a disco sadness

I held the sun in my hands like a flagpole DADDY

I wash my hands of the sun DADDY and all the water runs pink every wingspan is an elsewhere resisting form

-lessness sanity in the rubble sanity a cleft treble sanity infrequency sanity in sanityinsanityinsanity into perfect holes such suns are STOP a european extraction of sun a solar rorschach paint me like one of your french

STOP the lyric I is a flagpole at the center of my

STOP the lyric I is an abusive father reaching up from beneath the

STOP the lyric I on the front cover of the new yorker saying KILL ME

DADDY a sun who wants to die by

STOP a sun who just wants to be a (w)hole

STOP a sun who dies to become a hole of himself sub

-TERFuge I ref use I ex cess I like sun carved into s kin of batata pan oramic sun in fidel sun of g(r)azing STOP

I looked the sun in the eye like a whisper DO NOT

RETURN TO ME DO NOT RETURN DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT TWO HUNDRED DOLL hairy I lyric every sun is a mis translation of STOP sun looking unto the K in KELLOGG the illiteracy of business STOP union-busting sun corpse trampling sun fork lift fork LIFTA

RESORTS COME SEE JERUSALEM FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF A sun spot a sun freckled in the face like almonds STOP de hydra tion thirsty I thirsting sun I quake in an excess of HALF

AN ALMOND of LIGHT in the LIGHT in that LIGHT there where I can almost miss you you who taught me to paint in Arabic to witness in English to taint the English with spectral witnessing the catastrophe of LOVE

LESSNESS is it catastrophe I lack CAN’T A GIRL JUST SPIRAL IN PIECES the lyric I who wants to summon its ancestors can only summon americans chanting BAN THEM amidst Arabs chanting BAN THEM amidst the BANNED Arabs joining the crowd amidst americans pissing themselves into solar un-context the Arab who wants to be poet qasida the epic ghazal me lovelust sonnet me into trans laureate saying PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR SAND -national hole the i and dot the (teehee!) the catastrophe of LOVE was a catastrophe of LAND

LESSNESS was a catastrophe

LESSNESS was a catastrophe of LOVE of LAND a catastrophe of LOVE a catastrophe of