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In protest of morning
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to protest the morning. I am smoking too many cigarettes. (cough, cough-spit.) There is sleep in my eyes...
from a seat in the garden
blue jays build a nest in the pine,
swallows migrate overhead,
wren in and out of the compost,
centipede in beak
behind the fence
children screech,
entitled neighbours
don’t distance from...
Exodus 3:14
It was a strange sermon.
Most adults were nodding
in deference,
some with fatigue.
I didn’t get it, until I got home
and heard a different version
watching Popeye on...
Poison Sumac
My body lies, tells the truth,
but lies again. Sweet discharge,
then inflammation. You on top,
breathing as I receive. Delivery
insistent as vines. Once you climb inside,
those...
The men I see in daylight
At the gas station
a man in wraparound shades
was talking too loud
about how the country had gone soft.
He needed help
working the pump.
I looked away.
Mercy takes...
Hollywood
Penile Sphincter
‘Number three all over my friend’
for which he’ll charge me £9.50
It’s been a few months
since the last haircut
One of the other barbers says
‘Oh fuck...
Poison Sumac
My body lies, tells the truth,
but lies again. Sweet discharge,
then inflammation. You on top,
breathing as I receive. Delivery
insistent as vines. Once you climb inside,
those...
Shopping for a new penis
The fret’s returned
soon the windows
will need
to be cleaned again
to wash off
all the limescale
and bird shit
We’ve ended up
flicking from channel
to channel
avoiding
the Third Reich’s
home movies
and a...
some evening in March at the coffee shop
"yeah, i don't know why they don't
legalize this stuff," karsten said.
i watched the thick plume of smoke
snake up out of his joint
and collect at...
I was thinking about starting an internet poetry forum
So i went online to study the one that says it's "the web's most active poetry forum" or some shit like that.
I started reading...


























