I’m writing this from a bathroom stall. The
bouncer keeps pounding on the door.
He’s reminding me of my gender.
All in Poetry
I’m writing this from a bathroom stall. The
bouncer keeps pounding on the door.
He’s reminding me of my gender.
it’s wednesday & daniel johnston is dead.
i know this because each building looks small.
a car hit a robin as i was crossing the street,
its feathers sticky with red.
I want to say I love my father like the nine-
year-old version of myself did. My thin-fingered
hands waving, taking deep breaths in December
air sticky with saliva, cheering on our beloved
team, a lineage craving its own collapse,
in the year of robocop & lethal weapon, millions gathered
to watch an entire galaxy flex on god. forget his 37 points a game.
forget him chugging down coke & hustling larry bird for big macs.
michael jordan was a silent flame palming an orange ember.
me, standing in-front of a mirror, undressing myself & turning to ash, & sometimes, suddenly, my mouth becomes the beak of a bird & knows how to sing.
My grandfather could’ve been a metaphor,
but he wasn’t.
Another woman tells me that she wants to be buried in a pet cemetery between a Goldendoodle named, “Chomsky” and a Poodle named, “Rath”. I tell her this information is not related to the survey being conducted. “Who knows who I could be buried next to in a human cemetery? I don’t want to risk being buried next to some pervert.”
if we sold palpitations you would be overflowing with ears of corn.
(i would buy your silence with boiled placentas to mince in your
gut-station
or perhaps outside)
elsewhere,
a man barked
and blood jumped into my mouth
Marlon Brando is Johnny, and The Rebels know
their leader’s cool, like in the first scene
at the Squaresville cycle race,
Johnny just strolls across the track,
sending riders sliding into bales of hay.
I or maybe you swung there and I took a lemon from
the tree and bit down hard and the juice tasted like a
burst of citronella or the way the hardwood smelled
in the early summer and the swing kept going back
and forth while the juice dribbled down my chin
Sometimes, I am all the sad music in the world;
some days, I even miss you. In another life,
I would have recognized you in my reflection
and let you hold my hand.
I wanted escapism to be
a doo wop song. But, instead
I used my money to
buy a salad from 7-11.
There is leopard print involved.
For, in another dress, Gram has seen
a leopard in its natural habitat.
They became friends.
In a corner booth, a man and
woman sit, guarded by an entourage
of empty glasses. What’s missing
is her partner; what’s missing
are his insecurities.
I don’t know if she regrets telling me
the names of all her cats and
snakes, or sending me nudes, or
saying she loves me.
Desperate to see the bones beneath amusement, I began
in the garden, followed the bullmoose stirring
the air outside, his quiet right to be alive opened wide
It’s the sound of your head
getting slammed on a police cruiser,
and the sound you hear
when the power company shuts off your electricity
after a hard day of working.
I envy the corpse of that doe
kissed with ferocity/attention
an armadillo soccer-balled
on the highway
trees dead/one day into spring
cremation jewelry
memorial services
how much does it cost to replace a window
small cremation urn
>star wars creation urns