Citsenship Richard Millett contents: The New Nature Snvisible Sputhesiser Canary Milk Two Franciscan suns The Vatican Vaults Cruelty Free Heroin Fingerhouse Dancing With The Skeleton Key Dellow & Blue Orchids Jn A Green Glass Basket Citisenship ‘All titles written & edited by Richard Millett © 2019 Published by Fluxtite Inc. Photography, Layout, & Besign- Earl Todteman Conceptual Continuity- Earl Todteman Fluxtifeine.com sevibd.com/ sFluxtifeine poutube.com/user/tlustifeine instagram.com/flustifeine viehmillett.bandcamp.comWe know what we've seen So much more water falling from the sky making miniature lakes out of puddles and forming little rivers in gutters New homes being built where the mudslides ran down the hills, quenching the forest fires So many new islands and bays for animals to gather together, standing on one foot New games being played as new trees emerge in marshes and parks form over landing strips We know what we think about it Never desecrate the body Never poison the water supply Never bathe in insecticide See & think Never barter for bacteria Never throw poison down the well Never desecrate the body In a glass sink the water can start to build its own walls and divide its own chromosones In a glass shower The nozel calcifies the water and organizes the deposits into clear lines on a glass floor spilled yater pulls away from itself towards the corners, towards the door On a glass ceiling the water can re-form into pointillist droplet paintings we know what we see and what we think — The plane lands by the grace of the titanium hand a stiffened spine completely covered in sea foam — closet full of striped clothes ” costed in cast iron oN “The titanium hand has The titanium hand instan tly uprooting thunder from cloudsThe harvest the bounty of the harvest reaping the bounty into plastic bags endless handfuls of beautiful blueberries pressing against plastic bags| |The plane ascends by the grace of the titanium hand the grid is powered by the grace: of the titanium hand Vertical waves powering. on gn offline equator Vertical vaves svirling inside color codednumbers The harvest the bounty of the harvest xeaping the bounty jinto plastic baas endless handfulls of beautiful blueberries [pressing against plastic bags twitching fingers and tapping feet remain untamed \The 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list before deciding he'd rather have a pet eel instesdd While Amanda watches her neighbors bickering and daydreams deleted scenes from their past ‘The delivery man is ready for the weekend as he ignores the noe on fhe European heatwave, instead marvelling arout the nev house on his route and how much it must cost cook month to keep the swans fed and.the water in the lagoon rresh While Amanda feels no urgency to call back her agency cy and laughs at people voluntarily photographing their chores Svegi but_settled for organizing games of i : sid juice in their hotel rooms, they squeeze out extra acidic orange ju: ‘wo Franciscan nuns helped decorate an admiral in the pensioners hone after he'd misplaced Fie uniform they blessed his pills, Kissed hig Parakeet, and as he Slept gathered sets if his false teeth to sell at the swap meetShelves lined with caskets ripe fruit piled in baskets Sugarcubes in tea cups rattle as saucers are dragged across tablecloths Outside a crowd sits, murmuring a harmonium coughs discordantly off the spokes of a bicycle wheel and snake skin is carefully wrapped around palms wo men each wear a veil one off mauve, the other pink lady red gravel sits at the bottom of stained glass vials and mink pelts are smoothed out over tiles Three elderly spinters raise their voices in praise their weatherewd hands shaking at thew sky gold medals tied around their waists reflect the sun dieectly into children's eyes Four blind beggars fool the crowd into believing they're brothers who compete by tying knots in rope faster than any comers the act only ending at dusk when they split their spoilsWhen the guardian goes mad the sun rains against their eardrums indistinguishable from morse code tapping on a copper plate Yes, when the guardian has gone mad they're found singing love songs to tanks draping staircases in flags breaking car windows to decorate their face with glass when the guardian goes mad they're captured pushing a pickaxe into an LED screen and 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colored chalk onto trees and oil stivcks litter the walkways where oysters recover jewelry fallen overboard and forgotten where flashlights findWhere should I go? with a shopping bag full of batteries returning a stolen bike to its parent company walking in between unclean delivery trucks in need of repair while raw toned steel whistle ax air floats on wisps of strawberry hair and accelerated voices in nonsensical ten second annoyances a magician perfecting an illusion which ends with them curling up and sliding down a tree then pretending to be asleep while assessing what the crowd seems to think thena throne is carried on seating a man in a parchment crown and wrapped in beach towels Where should I go? into a kitchen with aluminum knives and nurses in white lab coats and blue rubber gloves rolls of tissue paper and unfolded t-shirts and personalized engraved name plates Where should I go? knees to the chest laying ‘on the cool ground scissors heels pressed together toes toward the 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(tt moving shoulders continuously scissors sparkling sun todayMe seceeeensesssquegecwusssocceasesssssusenaesescssdassccecessessess muscles to minutes continuously resting laying on the cool ground i suatasndgnnengnngceuonsnnsasnesussensnsnansseaaa¥SU08000000535008‘m dancing with the skeleton ke: pinned under my Belt the night after I'd had two simultaneous dreams in ocular split screen one where a whitetailed fawn galloped to the front door and another where my brother couldnt sleep I'm dancing with the skeleton key tied on a-twine cord around my neck remembering when my sister was locked in a mini-van and stranded in a parking lot outside of Austin, she kissed the windows and ate twhe tape in the cassette deck tucked behind my wisdom teeth and obscured by my tounguw toungue I have memories that my sister still won't believe and I miss the 20th century it could ahve been so much better tm dancing with the skeleton key, ‘scotch taped tomy arm when I weas in school the vice principal gave himself a heart condition trying to figure out whohad stolen from the convenience store and then boasted about it on a blackboardO 'g dancing with the skeleton ke: z o eto oT a dilapidated catholic church where the priest once confessed to me that after each funeral he performed the only way he could raise his spirits was by making uneasy music with the organist ‘ed while bells chime at midnight: near the railroad and kids with no curfew dodge between dashing headlights on their way to play hide and seek in the park while my brother ate= draws out diagrams on poster boards connecting lines from consequences of thoughts to isolated islands of thinking divided by unintended regression of actions looking at sealed bags of clothes that I stopped wearing years ago while I was running for mayor on an unconfirmed platform o£ leaking information about the governorT'm dancing with the skeleton ke} in an adjacent office because the evidence my brother uncovered just got delivered to the lawyer, and he predicts am it will make the judge jump and remove any condemnation @aamiminemm from his mouth Tm dancing with che skeleton key ina strip mall that used a swimming pool and before that a man made hill that covered de-militarized waste trucked over from a Floridian base and it will still take 100,000 years before any of it reaches its half life Q ‘m dancing with the skeleton key’ clasped tightly in my hand as I watch my sister in the mirror speak sentences with one word and plant@il—@ orchids next to power lines in the backyard then she dots the driveway with empty jars to accurately measure the rainfall ClBoCERE DLE Hi imy pocke! moving loosely with me my brother used to cry bitterly to our parents every time he got a ticket refuting each offense denying he did any of itCn 7 ie skeleton sliding uncomfortably tn my but the nuisance helps give me the presence of mind to always hold up what I was taught That when the rent is due it's better to be full and well slept than to hand over a blank check skeleton key watching leaves in the wind and a novelist at a press conference performing fake sign language hoping @if will get him the attention he wants for trying to revive the printed wordI'm gathering first impressions the floor is red her dress is white I can picture her standing @m in a large glass filled with ice leaping to reach the umbrella to pull herself out her hair is a yellow ciréte and her hands are slightly curled as if she's unsure if they should lagy flat or if she should be holding a prop I'm gathering first impressions her hair is a rosary made of rhinestone dust her pristine gloves suggest a ljst of items she'd refuse to touch flew! her gown isn't for @pgpimt*-hia, more for stiffened gestures sewn labépiously be dressmakers who clearly owed her favors in the Industrial Revolution she hunched under gaslights armed with a penknife and a vockschtul ein yardhke en cash fui gocksteinken I'm gathering first he's standing in a front of an orantely carved wood display his hair is a rust coloured bubble his smile beams from behind the cut out mouth of a translucent mask fle looks like he could be the mayor in a western gleaming gold badge neatly polished six shooter resting in his holster ready to stare the bad guy into obeying the law I'm gathering first “impressions she tries to stand tall put her shoulders defensively slouch -pecesss= she's never eincthen before she's the mother of the best actress winner taken to the oscars as a gift for the years of support but untrusting of these flashing surroundings wears a thinly stretched matriarchal smile reassuring only to those. who glance ee-her in| passingI'm gathering first impressions he looks like he's about to lunge, maybe while pulling out a knife or a gun bryllcreamed thin strems og hair stretched back ovr his scalp in defiance and an underbite smirk letting you know no wisecracks you make will outsmart him he was once Al Capone's driver speeding through corn fields to make a 3am delivery with a table cloth and sheet music placed in the passenger's seat I'm gathering first impressions his pompadour is lazily, hastily pasted in place his loose tie barely his neck the tops of his teeth want (Ot! moan when he remembers how he dove under the -bar during a botched stickup und hes sprachtung enchen the gunman didn't get far he was escorted by guards to the county impound lot und vechsteig unt reind I'm gathering first impressions his eyes are watery galaxies his smile indicates he frequently decides against acting on impish instéacts in a pin striped brooks brothers suit he's the first president of IBM standing in a control room confidently patting the side of a block long machine and slowly but assuredly lexplaining away your worries about this being the future |r'm gathering first impressions her coral colored features Imove the eye down to the copten steig accessories on her strong@gaimimy wrists her years as an eye surgeon long in the past now working part time as an operator negotiating the few remaining party lines she takes two quarters out of her change purse und findent treig ein stround jachleib en grein third act dre feig ent princh arouch steindrim gatherieng first, impressions iis patent leather shoes that squeak as he runs to tell amr unbreakable fingernails transformed into tropical polychrome she made her first 50,000 selling avon ee SS a merchtang the mundane |looks into h—I'm gathering first impressio he was born in plaid slacks and a yellow izod shirt the sunburn and smirk installed at birth what remains unclear is what was his class @mP & what was his career for it |seems he's always been here |shaking hands and having one more for the road or sitting in the corner of the clubhouse reading articles in playboy about @pheasant hunting or decorating tips for the MNP bachelor I'm gathering first impressions her quizzical expression keeeps her you weren't so farTHEY FOUND ME realistically resembling myself and fully alive in a different yea questions were drawn to determine how I appeared there I explained I went to sleep because I couldn't function being constantly awake. ‘Theta waves turning back on themselves spindle waves with no chance ot crest and the slow waves never close to arrivingA wingwalker craves immunity to maintain sovreignty feeds on concentration to maintain sovreignty + brushes memories to maintain sovreignty Theta waves are just the start spindle waves, stand you straight up slow waves safely deposit you back on the shore‘A wingwalker needs clear vision and to be free of poison you have to know where to turn on the lights before you go to sleep go to sleep 60 +0 skep 60 be cfGob she? be baby Go bune + 0 tale te foe Zit ate | ae uly Gotesleep Cohemet 5°) 5 hop‘Other ites inthis series: FRadav/Grain- Tracing The Dim Signal- Water bw Fingernail n My Salad- Scatter- ScattorMd Life. & W.- Life lent Hard bw Mild Lfe- The Aluminum Farm. 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