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Çatalh​ö​y​ü​k

from Nothing New in the West by J. Mamana

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lyrics

Cruel world,
breakfast by the Old Stone House,
family affair,
the refrigerator’s hundred gauss.

In Volta Bureau,
eyes to phone, Graphophonic cue
to decode.
On Volta Park land,
there headstones paved
a passage in place of the road.

And a map hangs crooked in the corner near the bar
and a man stands staring at the Costanoan land
where the great-grandchildren of bootleggers
position pegs of donut shops by hand.

Along the Beltway
monuments indicate a memory
traced.
Like this Vinland map, say:
15th cent. but it’s covered in fresh
anatase.

Like Çatalhöyük
mocked the spots of the leopard décor.
Like Waldseemüller
named a square by the 95-
corridor.

And a map hangs crooked in the corner near the bar
and a man stands staring at the Costanoan land
where the great grandchildren of bootleggers
position pegs of donut shops by hand.
There a man falls thumbing at the coronated cabs
while a teenager’s sitting dour at the stand.
All the while he’s thumbing at a screen,
calls a six door uninsured wheezing Kombi van
with a map framed crooked in his flushed and hardened hands—
his weird Old Dominion over East Algonquian land,
where the great-grandchildren of bootleggers
position pegs in yule Afghanistan.

A palimpsest:
In the grid
you discover yourself,
like a stencil,
retracing the work of
someone else.

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from Nothing New in the West, released January 4, 2019

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