Saturday, October 29, 2011

soon

Novicember will resume the position for its second spanking on 11/01/2011.

Old and new poets
New Mexico? Where?


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

last poem

I can't think of any fitting
last words

nothing profound

any artistic sense I might
have started the month with
is squashed
like a gourd
(a feeble attempt at pun and poetry both)

last piece of wisdom--

my toes are cold
they're waiting for Christmas
my dad turned the heat off

I need silence.

I listen to
The Waltz of The Flowers
and dance with myself
right down the middle of the hall.

I keep a healthy balance
between
mildly proficient socialite
and
the fucking crazy kid.

I take a double dose
of melatonin
and fade into my comfort zone;
a book held like an idol
to ward off evil,
and the room suspended
in an eerie silence.
This is my kingdom.

sometimes I wear this shirt of Alexandra's to bed
and ponder about
how many of my friends have slept together
sometimes I think about space time
and sometimes
I think about
my life as one big
young adult novel
hot cocoa and peppermint schnapps
this is going to be the drunkest
christmas ever i tell my grandmother
she seems nonplussed when i tell her that
i am going to marry the man with the aviators
that works at the pet shop while i am
imagining him bending me over
bags of dog food and thanking some god
somewhere
that mind reading is not possible
this poem is a grainy 35mm black and white print
of an idiot clutching a computer

this poem is falling off a cliff in the back
of a greyhound bus
at 200mph

this poem is measuring time and space

this poem can travel at the speed of light

this poem is tired of itself

this poet is going to go take a nap

do you ever get tired?

red butterfly finds itself
on my ass

i wipe the sweat down
and away

we commence another
altercation

coming home
soon

Nothing ever changed

You can watch yourself lose your mind.
True fact, look it up.
Before you are crazy, you go crazy.
A girl who wished to remain anonymous
watched calmly as everything turned to gas.
And she asked herself if anything was wrong.
but of course, she said it wasn't,
and then she made it a point,
to stop talking to herself.

Monday, November 29, 2010

A Constant Cold

I'm sure I'm quite tired of writing about
myself and tea and now
soy milk because there is this cancerous
tomb of a family about me my father
and my mother's mother and my uncle too
and my aunt
had her chemo and has a lovely head of hair now
and I say Repunzel, Repunzel
let down your long
life! [we say to ourselves]
and I will grab on to it hopefully
because all this business makes me feel like
my thoughts have some place in my body now
but fuck I'm a bit young to worry
Don't You Think?

Frankenstein

Young guns

carry clean guns

in fast cars.

Yellow tape waves like

the banners of heaven,

blood flecks are new-age graffiti

painted on the faces youth.


Youth who stand in a hospital doorway

clutching a bigger hand

while doctors use electricity;

try and mimic Frankenstein

-- there are shocks

one, two, three,

clear

one, two, three,

clear.

Sparks ring out just like gunshots

a sick thumping sound.

Skeletons dance along the riverbank,

you can hear splashes if you listen.


Solemn-faced men announce the names

live

on-air.

i google
james roday
shirtless
nothing happens
so i google
james roday shirtless scar
there is a picture of a cat
i hate the internet