Religion The Dude was here The Dude’s a saint Saints pick their teeth Saints spread like wildfire Wildfire eats oxygen Wildfire purifies Purify your thoughts Purify your chant Chant for Godtopia Chant for redemption Redemption for massacre Redemption for torture Torture to convert Torture to believe Believe in deep alchemy Believe heretics will confess Confess […]
Read more "RIKKI SANTER – RELIGION"The Toy in Trouble After Harryette Mullen & With Apologies to Paul Simon These are the ways of lyricals and blunders. This is a long list of falls. The way the stammering fallows us in so much. The way we mistook it all. The way we took to a miscreant congregation that thinks it’s flying […]
Read more "TERRY LUCAS – THE TOY IN TROUBLE"Cool Song I remember I was 10 years old and was playing in the living room One sunny Saturday morning As my sister scrubbed the kitchen floor on her hands and knees Hair tied in a bandana The plug in zenith am radio with the big pink dial on the bench Playing the popular songs […]
Read more "JOE FLAMBO – COOL SONG"NOTES ON “LOW” The melody turns in on itself with descending notes Ascending Descending Turning back and forward To seesaw percussion The piano scales into itself with ascending notes Ascending Descending Turning around To meet the trumpets heading the other way Five notes Back and forth the same five notes Fast and slow the same […]
Read more "MARC JANSSEN – NOTES ON “LOW”"Chameleon* I’m a Chameleon, Changing my colors to match my surroundings, I’ll make you feel comfortable. * Trauma like armor, I’ll blend in, so you don’t hurt me. * I can tell your mood in your footsteps, the set of your jaw, the tiniest tells; a twitch at the corner of your eye screams danger. […]
Read more "Angela LaVere – 3 POEMS"Columbus / Portland you moved to Maine to become one with nature I am asking you move back I see the cascade coming over Portland the negative winters to film the reels of our silence peeled over our head clouds I took you to the dance party in Columbus you asked about but hours after […]
Read more "James Croal Jackson – 2 poems"Thanatophobia As always, I wake early to bakeit’s 4 AM, I finish and try to get some rest,and I can’t get this specific thought out my brain:death.How I want to remember being alive, and how I won’t remember anyone or anything.How does it feel to not remember being alive?It scares me.Like my blanket covering me […]
Read more "KINA NORVILLE – THANATOPHOBIA"tape metal mesh tongues on glass pane eyes, a translucent autumn makes haste for exit; it tries to leave the gutter conglomerate of affections in shedding, of nose twitches, of wings in paralysis, of butterflies in flee from breastfed saplings, of everyday eclipses hiding in your sock drawer. you’ll close your lips around the filter […]
Read more "Sharvaree Kowale – 3 poems"if i were a man if i were a man,id be a welderid work a blue collar9 to 7 job id bring my wife and daughterfreshly picked roses everydayon my way home from work i would run corporationsmake cash flow like a riveri’d be strong and resilienthold my head higher thanmy ego although, i’m not […]
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