Objective pushback to
intensity
Out to wreck the gaps
minded sections
thwarted
misremembered quakes
in season of
desperation
targets thought
revolutions:
who hates insistence
determines false
peculiarity
/
ink visits the visible
despite mythology
to subsume to
become middle
income:
east is east
excoriating
stint attack on
doubled-edged
invented wizards
/
/
objectives debate at
the helm flying
bargains
stuck
serious
crimes
vacant pipeline doctor
inflects gas transit
notoriously designed
to starve.
Air-Quality Monitoring
Afternoons drink
revolutionary disorganization
placating a lifestyle
guru by belly flopping.
If, at the end
of a
tightrope,
I found conclusive debt
payments,
then maybe screeching
collages could
finally inspire a new
geometric ironing board.
Only sudden
like a fang,
sanctioned submarine
lemon
& the history of
parasitic crooning.
(Money burnt at Tea Time)
/
Most declarations
suspended due to retrieval,
while I negotiated for the release
of precent,
accusing the ramparts of oozing.
Salient Situational
Detonation
Local strongman playing
bocce ball
in Hellenistic court of
common pleas
relegated to a stacked
dice sneezing
where retrofitted
puzzle resides
stormy though tutored
to contradict.
Another SHELL
preventing ethnographic DaTa
spills.
Belonging surrenders
the self to immune
system,
(Punch)
(Drunk)
/ --- suffering from SIX inch
conversational
accoutrements.
Consolidated nuclear
arsenal
can’t keep a good bombardier down.
Sharp Castle, Corner of
Overview
Just dawn-
the castle of Elsinore
is a rockin’,
don’t come
a-knockin’ .
Same-same
fish scale rumble
at reference point
popular jukebox
stud. (
heard, half-hearted,
above head
WATER
--- supply ---
shortage
moat a MiNk
COAT of
armor,
farmer elevated
to tear duct
operation
). Events
maintain
KNUCKLE-
dear, the inside,
a MaJoR pie chart
omitting backwards
piano.
Who, tune,
TO Tibet we roll.
Acoustical Disadvantage
Space Station Runt
Steady street geriatric
polling
placing a slip & fall
ad into a blender,
rumbling about
narrative description,
give a crumb
or else ignore
sanctimonious
day drinkers . . . Mostly
stunned,
also Indifferent
, [standing
head & shoulders
above a provocation
never made me question
gun control
]. This
JuSt INTRO:::
“pillow swell over timeworn
werewolf enigmatic shape-shifting.”
Cup clutched to ear,
a drum,
a hen w/o
a hamster wheel.
Someone must have
chugged
all of my nostalgia
because I
haven’t seen it since
returning
to the square peg
factory wearing
only reversible cotton
wah-wah pedal.
PRETEND &
register
your chicken wing
for selective
service.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books automatic message (Free Lines Press), combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
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