(I) fake smile. inertia. difference? cretin. imperfect. unreachable. ants, jelly, ugly. empty. holes. slap me. equivocal. engendering. deceive. snare. trap. lie.

(II) paper, metal, concrete. shameless and perfect. pay to reduce. pay to augment. pay to know. pay to forget. dont bother. hollow taels and tiles. low children.

(III) circle and patch. conceal in vain. horrific mask. mark. hunger. outrage. outrageous. silence. ugly. a mere dollar. dirty brown rock. fountain of erosion. belongs.

(IV) look at u. u are like me. ugly. plain. arts. so what. u tie ur hair. i spike. still nothing. still ciphers. black plastic betrays u. acid pits me. eye.

(V) saplings, twined together. uprooted. an interjection of destination. warm words. hot air? chop off barnacles. clean pebble. surrender. low tide. a wintering.

(VI) wandering. boxes and puddles. tall and glassy. zinc and granite. the incomplete, the inconceivable. a bell at last. wilderness, familiarity. detached purpose.

(VII) one genus, bipolar minds. essential programmes function. an alien on mars. looking gawky. feeling queer. mars is all the same. sweet concubine. deus ex machina.

(VIII) fifteen different lives. heartland chatter. shostakovich. slobbery creature. ten second showreel. scare him away. i could smell this beyond the glass. home.