DOOM ENGINE by Juha Virtanen
Bloodletting heats peaced out catchy with scratch-iron scribal
and nilpotent adrenal fatigues in scenic lifting, take vitamins so
optioned cashless, goth optimists jabbing such tender red. Ro-
ro helix humidities closing, turnstiles mosaic and seven in smug
brooming so hollowed out scene: no free movement with stop-
and-search. Singed this arctic megafaunal struck from gestures
pigging, no cordial mint vapours enter soured London spits like
here’s some dud busting, breathe deeply in skid: head lice instead.
What syntax drubbing counter totals sorbets limbic for glowing,
more blaring knuckled tightly in dust sheets backing it rich; you
know this wrong turn decades keenly, blip buzzing through time-
lines affirmed. Sized piglet historic, these tanning neons plugged
sedate like squares nervous falling, my ears flaked in chambered
pairs; in fact possessed. Say it pitting rigged private out-flapping
our burns: messed foothold swims partied blowing lights out at
speed; clique mysterio so falsely for kicks. Boris Johnson is dead
Already but not yet, not deep enough in just dumb oozing. Grape
jollies giddy catching matched and wave this hell trending: open
spritzers, the sober margin seems puffed axial raining, Fridays
lent tarmac sick. Salve cream headbang the fizz, flatlining wind-
swept crease in stunt outing nostalgic, my grounding tanked duly
this sweat. No bandwidth feigns likeness to this: stress muskier
waste hammered in bits, is it rhythm working former postures
to shreds, tendon neck crunch alien so thorough with poison
And boiling, Executive. Burst tiding legit routine greased thinly,
wink hard hat again remotely contained: tuft hand wave greets
tersely that neighbourhood rim, ascending toothpaste to hi-vis
instead. Light sweeties, it’s mostly pieced calmer from garbage
to play, no joke turbos theta like clobbering thumb cross-talk
on raffle meat extras, huffed. Returning brush hazy, low-calibre
daybreak engines it biffed: talent ricochets that creamy in super-
dome speech, fine nothing voice trumpets, can we get out of here.
Logic inverse meme languish what is dormant today: rando hot-
fix shrinking its stubbed crispy, we’re speeding so pungent and
sugary. Haemoglobin counting twinned this muted, buck up to
ruffle it crooked as safe as obvious is. Bits subject onerous, kid,
charm wardrobe boffola backtracking in pulse derided. Ding.
Mattress optics block vision to stairs, care often pebbled slings
grazed knees to blue rubber on fence; shelled roadside calculus
from classic chicken punchlined to wrench. No sins but the rich.
Uplift tightly broken, the knots turn blinding to sweats. What
heart is charged vacant feeding dry patch to sediment here: un-
nerving zone this pratfall decoy like redefined terms propelling
evades; that lively. Dispersed so sunken, stomach curbing hand
rolled the vouchers displayed; badge floating select gulped then
slides the further it gets, repeating this quiet say miasmic tendon
nursing insects to health, but bury it. Mock zesty filing the fruc-
tose to ground that’s prepared: administered. Hope you’re OK.
Juha Virtanen’s publications include Back Channel Apraxia (Contraband 2014), -LAND (Oystercatcher 2016), and the critical study Event and Effect (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). DOOM ENGINES will hopefully be finished later this year. Together with Eleanor Perry, he co-runs DATABLEED and its related reading series DATABLEEDER. He works as Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Kent, and from September he'll be the Director of Kent’s Centre for Modern Poetry.
Photo by Juha Virtanen
