Dan Thomas-Glass, “Dunkalectics”

Dan Thomas-Glass

Dunkalectics

 
crunch-time hurts samples
going head 4 ball

playoff games mysteriously disappear from Chinese television

Paul worked

clock leaped

field dished

Jack

paint nailed exploded

Superman disappear

haul jumper

crunch years shots

superstar doubles superstars

better

ol’ broken ditched man

marks crunch

Score guy

depth disappears

crunch

pass Imagine passive

Manhood kicked

line idea

seldom slightly-above-average

yeah

guy ball blatantly

shoot hard

mildly better

slow win

break system

owners line muscle mirrors

terrible illusions

looking destroying working feeling recurring

Magic disappears

Dunkalectics

penned suit

quote Profit

score money delusion money

buy

buy

money crunch

choke Russell

crying

accept accept accept

darn

inspire video zone radio TV

drunk

wrist Bonner

competition performed

peek constant hands gasping

Sometimes quoted Love

scoring fears ineptitude

hard pressure shove

Lewis disappear

come constitutional instinct

stat maddening deal

flowery rhymes

story Dominate swore tape

written stacks MVP

clincher

crying beat girth

flexed giant forever

mighty ignored

stretching Spectator green game machine

liar age

Whopper Stories promise antsy

first silent tape

intentions attitude contract

writes trouble

fouls disguise

superior stint attack

doubled poor-scoring

overcome flow

Meltdown Disappear

bigger outside-in bench

wings sacrificing shooting compared minutes stuff assists

singled detriment super-scorer touches Bulls

tempo pass/shoot kick-outs gym penetrate

muscled positioned improvisation

cameras loss heated verbal jawing

stop stop stopping

funny guys express doing team scream

doing laugh action

endless intrigue made-for-Hollywood

Paul soft marginal rest

stunning imprint

minded injured

to not disappear

now swollen injured suckered glistening

knocking minutes literally

leading built beauty air

winning time

injure hiding seriously

blowing liability

hurting damage

feels line

deal greatness pain

things played

cry letters

slow anybody

younger critics

three victory shot heads

How to Disappear Completely

performance victory size

control Center must best-of-seven

best-of-seven backs forward

push breathtaking flirted run

stretch victory

taut blowout

dished thuggery

happy staff

Bad-footed stubborn sweaty followers

investigate disappearance

perplexed going sag

come

looked guided

first happier watches growth

might disappear

passion phenomenal

Bob blowing player

pulled crazy night

cool

franchise desperately Brawl

Company map

love restrained handshakes

dirty cheap expletives

ejected dirty caught ejected throat Bulls

struggling ropes

jaw have must have stupid

lose hummingbirds

blown suffered record fail back

guys body capable

capable bipolar pretty

final cruise scored positive

loss wrap show blueprint

teams Heat way silly times

home creaky jacked

hard

do tricky

bring walk return

confronted

flash seed run snuffed frustrated seed eliminated seeds

sides rallied

staged marketing

aired lambaste

shots side shots Nothing

staff nowhere nowhere chip

Boy grips Thunder

night Heat Potential

then

Heat

Heat

Heat

victory idle

Disappear?

New open Arena News flared

shelved condition

shelved shut

insisted burnish grit-and-spit limitations

leap recriminations

faithful witness

class tattoo irony

Morning debacle

alpha-male closed buts

road home

Center heartbreak heart pounding paying splinter

situations images

hard Patty choice

forget play hit pick

talking clock personnel

the disappearance of

team Phil Tyrone challenge

assistant average trips

occasions toughest shooters

system hand contract

guys guy

turnaround huddle

behind facing hands drained Parker

banks bigger not feel

pull illusions

came felt gave Commercial

hurts

vanquishing franchise

stunned celebrating movie

Gary Europe beyond clear

Curly ball

play chance

frothing Heaven Herald ‘breakfast’

dessert

unduly presumptuous sumptuously good breakfast

energy bit

tough lunch

defeat following survivor

Beating define doubt

worth loss

meaningless

identical

honestly growth hope Band-Aid

compete cynicism

grow positions

fabulous Rod doing guys

guys waste floor Heat

aging pin key

well ball tied

load ball

ball nice

ultimate gun ball wealth

Grew beanstalk crunchtime

uh-oh

beat moves ladder

opened squeezably

one-handers two back exhilaration

pulled down

blessed young early grow

flickered nice

fewer greatness

better best charge face

might beat inspiration

spark bloated beat annihilated column

immensely firmly fold

flip-flopper

flip-flopper

keen long material

old makeup

heading doesn’t-get-it-ness paid glory

[blame]

much Johnson stunk humiliation

anybody inconveniences change

respond career stature rules

principles model thing

ads Godzilla tired

worse beloved enigmatic heroic okey-doke

swore limp Paul

Closing drive anew

crutch killer

trail flat unfiltered

oft-complacent

leap grown pivotal physical hard

in ground our off glorious wish

court snowflakes sock-‘em

able intangibles battle end

franchise-record fast-break stops

run back critical

insists tonight

lines resemble staircase

point hinges view defining sorry

myself legs asserted done

guards silky sexy youth

‘chubby’

pitted schooling pile

death elders beauty peek

bull-rush not himself

fight push uncertain move

close owns members businesses

finances built plan appears

owners permission Honda

question Anaheim

disappear today.

 
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Dan Thomas-Glass is, unfortunately, a Warriors fan.  His work has recently appeared in Little Red Leaves, Volt, Armed Cell, Try, and as part of the Poetic Labor Project.  His third chapbook Kate & Sonia (in the months before our second daughter's birth) is forthcoming in early 2012 from the Little Red Leaves Textile Series.  He edits With + Stand in the East San Francisco Bay Area.

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RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume 5 (2011): Disappearance