Drifting into the Tape Machine & Rewound
Has at half-mast/
assed
turned inward
CORNERS
not unlike the odor
unique to split pea
SOUP—
a violent drip,
hands
underneath sewing
machine
bursts of applause.
Mad-
men linking
WRistS in
stubbornness w/o
enough potatoes to
invoke a stew.
To DANCE
the dancing of
creased pants
legs &
insect
breath which,
until just recently,
had a twinge of the
tang so often un-
fathomable
in eyes of
sculpted despondency.
Like
ANOTHER ringing of
a bell
like
anthrax dream/
seemingly
baroque in gesture
tho broke
&
filled w/ the
broken remnant
of
the
holy
ghost
trained
to
inject
ink
into
PRISMS/
VEINS/
STAINS
(listening to
radio
mummies
mis-
trustful
staining,
this to a
hand)(&
that again enough
to release bottoms
& overtake
carnival merchants
who
swim through
sludge/crude & rude
despise all that
floats like
helium heads,
staggering loss
of
joy—
here
they
call
for a
banishment
of all
serious
LITERATURE!
&
to them,
they shout:
DOWN W/
REALISM!!
For the blind sake of
chaotic glee,
turned over/
pumping/
dripping like sugar
cube
gross domestic product.
Deliver us from
binge watching!
Devils to spurn,
seeds to fashion,
reject all authorities as
useless!
Technocrat disease,
bushes spilling
from underpants.
Nothing to
feel less secure about
than security.
Needless,
wantless,
sputtering
against
mobs,
lose control,
lose
yourself,
lose!
lose!
lose!
Forbidden Light Socket Drama Club Afterparty
I wandered through the leaping fish expo hall drunk on myopic logic while tying strings around my tender middle until there was no song left to spill from the vines strewn about willfully ignoring milk yarn & curdled infant tigers. A burial at dawn interrupted by the sounds of endless construction. I pressed a thorough example to my hairline so as to tattoo the endless Spam. There wasn’t even need for a methodology to the counting of bones of the hands as they ripped another scrambled egg out of the dance hall music lamentable & studious. Piecing together romantic stone age monuments. Tho a ring blew from the tips of my kneecap robots I couldn’t help but turn just in time to meet gazeless metamorphosis less varied than an icepick though the ear or a nostril stuffed into a jar of marmalade. Into flapping laundry on drooping clothesline. Damned to repeat algebraic symphonies for all holiday weekends. And not 9. Nor a smirk. W/o metaphor there still remain kites swinging sultry & mistaken in an engulfed kind of zoological principle tho not one that ever presents itself as a scale model. I lack mobile home. I spill missions. I clean cleaving close to hot air balloon disasters. A game of cards or two later.
Against Skunk Eyes
Lost again the maze of pear trees
crawling spine upward posing look
of the many varieties of shrieking
of the laurels given out in drives
to shake the seldom avenged night sweats
against skunk eyes
overwhelmed by loins
clothed
just
enough to
offer
preferences
tho never longer than
a
YARD
s
t
i
c
k
Kicks that
come into
Play against
rock of
ages splitting
headcase
also w/o a
helmet
also grabbing my suspender toes
until seaweed mist evaporates
in ringing bells lie sirens blaring
or a dumpster sounding operatic
then crazy in the realm of flinching
to burp!
or not
to
burp but
of course
that is
not
a
question
the
verses squeezed
until all
the
pus
has
been removed
&
has
been removed
&
then kept in
a box
of
PROMISES
made
but
NOT
Kept
Spent
BUT
NOT
even
paid back.
Impulsive thumb sketch
Must i be
the duck
that
lingers in
the
toe
truck
of a
simple
meandering
impulsive
thumb
NAIL sketch
depicting JUPITER
with a
HEAD
c
o
l
d
?
i don’t know
& i
won’t ever be able
to admit.
charlatan
stampeD ouT the
beD buG charlatan
tho
Not
hing could
prepare you for the
VOICE
spilled from Jupiter
above a treeTRUNK
carload
of invading
MICROchips.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, Fixator Press, The Vital Sparks, and Breakwater Review among others.
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