Cal State San Marcos
Community and World Literary Series
The King
K. Silem Mohammad

 

Mississippi, he amplitude in his youth

hopped up and down excitedly “the corndog stick”

we now inflect about the permanence of black

during each hay of Somali-speaking life-blood

the advocates mingled out to select in the lager

 

suspect is right, I rather calculate

and (roughly) rocked my eyes right

out of their harmonic number

like spooling into something more comfortable

of bubbles and its size

like I couldn’t stand mustard

and now my sandwich seems weird

 

most of us here have been skeptics in the past,

then we heard the difference representing half of large dog

to keep the joint from slagging up

and a little mewling kittyphile out there

the little girl how do you suck balls how do you get corndog, and Elvis

 

really needs to release her over the side

start off crying and then ramp up

high-frequency gurgling which sounds like

also how you’re recording engines

specifically for adjusting the sound of

shooting a corndog out your backdoor

whilst waiting for salad you have to worry about

 

unavailing but beyond precision

without honesty

the riddims for this almost certainly himself

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