Category: Poetry

  • Funny Replacement – L.A. Nights

    Funny Replacement – L.A. Nights

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    From where I’m sitting, in the 10:30 twilight,palm fronds mock cathedral arches.And cherry-chlorine vapours play like fireflies, beamed up an indifferent street light. Lindsay Taylor, in her one piece glory,lies belly-down on blue mesh beside me.Forearm pressed against warm Rothko makeup,the bug eyes she never grew into,the blue hair she’s growing out to black.There’s mono…

  • Time Change

    Time Change

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    “My chair shrieks beneath me; my skull is granite in my hands.”

  • cutting the air with a dull knife

    cutting the air with a dull knife

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    “and so the next logical step would be to crucify the lord in a parking lot— no need for mountainous splendor or a wad of olive branches”

  • Heirloom

    Heirloom

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    “The uterus kicks, the timer is done, and now it is wailing for our mother.”

  • Gnats

    Gnats

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    “Today, a nasty type achieved beauty in cotton pants, a birthday hat, and a tubercular sweat.”

  • If the Ocean is in Your Mouth

    If the Ocean is in Your Mouth

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    “If we look close enough, we will see that it is your skin that I am tasting, it is certainly not my own, not on top of everything else I have to hold;”

  • I Had Meant To Say

    I Had Meant To Say

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    “The centre itself is the vapid, porous edge of each day Passing into itself into itself into itself,”

  • Emaciated Nightfall

    Emaciated Nightfall

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    “All the while, madness becomes bloated, and juts out from the soul.”

  • “Somebody needed to get shot over this,”

    “Somebody needed to get shot over this,”

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    “Here is a yell that means I’m hungry. Here is an inheritance. Here is desperately filling every emptiness.”