14 Sonnets for

Money

MIchael Hessel-Mial

How to use:
i. Please enjoy in any manner you see fit.
ii. Sonnets may be enjoyed by either reading or not reading
them.
iii. Sonnets may be enjoyed in the form of research, by
analyzing, cross-referencing and fact-checking as you see fit.
iv. Sonnets may be enjoyed by using and inverting their
language for new compositions.
v. Sonnets may be enjoyed by republishing under a different
name without the knowledge and permission of the author.
vi. Sonnets may be enjoyed by paying the author for them by
paypal as one would a book or ebook.
vii. Sonnets may be enjoyed by paying between 1 and 10 dollars
or 0 dollars by paypal.

viii. Sonnets may be enjoyed by devising randomized reading

procedures, perhaps either through coin tosses, published
tables of random numbers, or letting your pet decide what you
will do.
ix. Sonnets may be enjoyed by devising arbitrary payment
schemes tied to one's reading experience of the text.
x. Sonnets may be enjoyed by setting a 'dollar multiple' times
the number of sonnets actually enjoyed - 1 sonnets enjoyed
times 3 dollars equals three dollars.
xi. Sonnets may be enjoyed by setting a 'dollar multiple' times
the number of sonnets skipped in the event the reader enjoys
the sonnets best by stopping reading - 12 sonnets skipped
times 50 cents equals six dollars. This creates an economic
incentive for finishing them.
xii. Sonnets may be enjoyed by treating all references to
money as playful elements in the poetry and nothing more,
written by an artist who is extremely skeptical of conceptual
writing's relationship with money and is using the 'ironic
monetization' as an exercise in the "quickshit" model of selfpublishing while incidentally needing money, somewhat.
xiii. These sonnets are free, and the author thanks you for
reading them. They are dedicated to Zachary Zimmermann.

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1.
awake enjittered under a damp
all dusk dust all smutty plaids
onto a bandaid youth sculpture
pull exit roots stocks frenemies
indifferent pulls minor constants
nothing gets sucked into it at all
you'll scramble any meltwater
of pots and kippers in difficulty
star of david sobriety testing
but most for whom the shouts
release, in order to manifest
the certainty of thousands of days
anamnesis promise from the womb
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2.
and you soon see that what was
there'll be more than one person
myself to thoughts about relevancy
in a kind of slapdash way.
just done was not at all what
falls down this winter! bird
and irrelevancy in addition to
where is there sense of urgency?
was done before except as regards
maddened by the length of its
stories and subjects where
the general situation. there was, by
own winter. but now (as i
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3.
i'm running for governor of you
and even though celebrities
left and right and center, cali style,
have the resources to 'win'
i have the 'policy aims' to 'win'
in the form of gettin' that govship
my email will be mike loves ya
at governor dot gov dot UK
and you will def be my aid not forgetting that i'm governor
of you, in this very meta state
of affairs *hits blunt* imagine that...
this love poems sucks
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4.
the macroscopic blip calms power
without losing the groundlessness
the hand with no relation to fire
the umwelt failed by performance
a punctuated equilibrium, top down
unspooled and hand hammering
indifferent elements, neither way
allowed to split in no direction at all
our enemies are never insects
the grammar nazis of bird language
collective law & collateral violence
long takes on western civ's selfies
near and disordered magnitude
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5.
i'm alive and so are you and my feelings are hurt
goodbye once and for all for all
you're so strong! - motivational quote
i wish you didn't hate me and i have further requests
the night sky isn't as dark as the ground
my limbs get cold but stay on my body
drop me in pieces like a dust storm
resting on the ground filling it up
anyone can do it lol maybe not really
equal and opposite reactions to what is out of balance
i'm getting over feeling this way
sleeping too much out of ugliness and compromise
guess i'll be responsible for what has happened
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6.
constantly trying to overcome it
100 brains of normal found naked
adopted cultural tools of language
to the extent authentic love remains
nothing of a false tenderness of
colonization, poor man's snobbery,
attempted to touch on the misery
an intermediary between creation
on hot coals, sheets of water,
the jaws of the volcanoes
he is made to feel inferior
to hellenize, to orpheusize,
increasingly smaller circles
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7.
it's february & i don't wanna change
this has nothing to do w/ u this time
i don't brush my teeth enough
and now it's a subtweet [hi!!! :) ]
i'm can't start anything because
i'm in the middle of capitalizing
on some pretty lousy options
and i'm busy keeping up with it
could stand to play ukulele again
my voice is best when i'm in love
but not necessarily, whatever
should i beatbox professionally
think some new things will happen
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8.
but i later hear what this isn't
there'll be less than many people
yourself in unnoticed moments
in many careful ways.
before being finished at all
falling up every spring! dinosaurs
and topical poetry subtracted,
why not the rationalization of calm?
was unfinished after including
relief in the brevity of its
facts and objects towards which
the specific event. nowhere, away
nobody's summer. and later (before
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9.
My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Than to drive liking to the name of love
That know love's grief by his complexion!
Friendship is constant in all other things
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood
To slander music any more than once.
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
Where honeysuckles ripened by the sun
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Which was before barred up with ribs of iron!
If ever love had interest in his liver,
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10.
the mottled ribbd spackled light
which underlyingly bestrobe in
feather fleck cream gray directions
orange, a tail formed in rest, which
creased and divot hairless images
wave morphd curled and flex
against itself and against which
movement take in missiled shape
no other stripe or character, nor
speculate sheet of girding, nor
tempered edge edging its relates
the silver of unshorn balance
and tippled errant mewlings
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11.
it's a marathon not a sprint,
meet basic needs, ways of talking
use spanglish, loose displacement
patterns: Ferguson Detroit Gaza
the road to this future will be
1 billion pound, half 1 billion dollars
get in touch with carter center, CDC
demosthenes - PA3951.E5 2011
call dekalb county police dept.
about kevin davis - 678-406-7929
college left South candler street
right on brower, left to 221 garland,
I'm a weird alien cute boy
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12.
now that i'm naked i don't know
what 2 do with myself since no-one
is around these days, Dear Diary,
it's just past Rain O'clock and i'm
goin hard core
gimme gimme more
i'm the kind of cool
you can't buy in a store
rabbi would say the existential stuff
comes from boredom, though i'd
add privilege, social things,
complexity unmanaged or gamed,
catastrophe as change &/or event
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13.
List of Ally McBeal episodes
List of boddhisatvas
List of Alamo defenders
List of battles fought in Indiana
List of Calgary Flames captains
List of dams in Turkey
List of Cameroonian films
List of designers of the Final Fantasy series
List of alliances in First World War
List of Candida strains
List of Allusions in DoTa
List of candidate planets
List of Ben 10 characters
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14.
Dearest infrared system, what a thing it is, the
Old-style infrared systems!
Poor "encoded electronic signals" !
Didn't I nourish her "stray signals and interference" ?
Oh what is a TV remote control that he is allowed to
complain about himself!
Alas, that the vest circuitry of my encoded electronic
information is gone!
At that time was there a single download stations
computer in my home bases left unused?
I turn back into myself and discover a wireless radio
frequency!
My fine young advanced fiber-optic sensors! to love is
human, but you must love in a human way!

Who can remember all their transmission!

Go and ask my headaches for leave, and I will speak to
your scoring system.
Then someone made a laser tag arena: smack!
And looked into her "download or reactivation stations"
- noble poet!
How often on my wide wanderings have I seen the
"misalignment" that now contains all my walls and
ceilings, either from the infrared beams or across
the infrared beam from the old-technology
systems!
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Michael Hessel-Mial is a poet and scholar, and

webmaster at Internet Poetry.
Twitter: @mikehesselmial
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Paypal: michaelshesselmail@gmail.com
Conceived, Created and Published on February 9, 2015