Jake Marmer
Bebop History of the Exile


popped string: wE
melody-unzipped wE know
a thing or two about  
we know   nah –
thing we know
about the tube: the birth: the pre: nah
thing, this thing of nah-thing, thing of
boundless we:
we boundless
we   nothing   boundless
we’re bound!
bound-up
down in the rotten Russian bathtub, down the ice
the ice of we, and the pitch
black pitch we know
nothing, the silence, nothing –
nothing silent about the
pitch! the peg-nail piercing
Yael pitching big nothing
skies over Sisera’s sleep
between, he sunk he fell he
he laid between the skies
between the thighs he laid
and her rhythm – dirty word -  was all in her
she went uh-one-TWO-three-four, layin back, one-TWO-three-four,
she banged over and over as if into the winter
earth that won’t give as into the god-behind
the-ice we know the story, the nothing, nobody
who? gas who
devolved
rhythm job



  Jake Marmer is a Ph.D. candidate in Comp. Lit. at CUNY, currently working for Random House Publishing. He's the managing editor of Mima'amakim. Check out his avant-punk band, the Frantic Turtle.
                                               
                                               
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