STEWED
whole milk sludge
my treat on flat land
thin layer contained my offering
platonic treaty, please consider:
how do you mythologize my listlessness?
no, don’t tell me
forgot the applicator so we wrote it out
cowardly cabinet, aggro husk
ended up on the opposite coast
how moody! let’s demur
saved an inkblot no one asked for
stained the palm all on my own
there’s a quart waiting, souring
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NONSTARTER
heavier than this lucite tortoise
sinks private cliché –
bad games, you feel?
shine the thin light through
skin peels back
erased my blue cuticle for this
what a waste! too warm
benefit from the experimental shake
can we adjust that algorithm
why’d you have to attach shame?
pack it up
walk me to the shredder
slide the briefs through and
listen: a crackle
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ZIP CODE PATTERN
fraudulent sweat
actual goosebumps
percolating behind my
arms’ gyre hurtling toward
temperature drop, baggage claim jingle
hearts of palm, my gift!
for you, on the wet nose
when I offer up a maternal slouch
come share an asymmetry
until we can no longer bear it
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YOLK
what do you like about it? say this with me, the rheumatic error of it all, the scalding heat –
chronically explicit, now
hold my pinky! no promises, only incomprehensible theory
slid in on the joke
obfuscation? deathly
wink triggers my reflex
now slide
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