A Trousers in the Wind
Mass constructed flying shoes
all the FURY
the jury
presented as a
shoeshine kit then
a pair of
TAP SHOES
once worn by CYD
CHARISSE
the last time she
committed an atrocity.
Hopeful glaring
stomach cancer
acid. Pulled up
sock suspenders
at
crusade level kettle
drum
banging . / .
Something
indecisive happened
b/t call to arms
annual print editions &
a BURNING
TURNING
CHURNING
demon masked
gobbled &
positioned to the
left of summer
solstice. Can’t we
all just wring our necks?
Spilling cloudy
ink
afterwards
knuckles
crumbled
shallow
half-lizard
remarks
in pillbox
formal attire
like TOP HAT
& tails.
Where tho did
lessons scratch
the eyes of miles
who beg for shade
amid whirling
helicopter blades
robust yet fading
grief stricken yet
altogether smirking
as a violent act of
possessive &
regressive childhood.
At least
leave alone
&
heave ho
beyond thunder
cloud milk
chocolate
chicken
liver drumstick
seductive tho
reductive at
the particle
level
of misbehaving
shovel grave
stone
backward
propelling
summation
only a latter
connection
to step lightly
as ice flows
creamsicle
like as if
standing in
a doorway
grand enough
palms to
manage
an apple
orchard.
To the ground
SWELL
ing
in
snowdrift
MOUNTAINS
as sullen as a
cucumber is
solid.
There’s no
OTHER
meanwhile
to grasp in the
parachute
pants
of yore.
Jupiter papercut sworn to secrecy
Baring STRAIGHT
forgetmeNOT to sight a
Zest of fingerprint ZaP!!!!!!!!!!
pappy prints radical
gripe, against
inventory:
enough innovation
to make YA sick
, Quick! ,
pick 2 rooster
shells to
SiN an Artuad
would growl
, stench of beautified
boulevard—
crash!
Flung ON-
WARD! UP! WARD!
lil’ Pyramid Scheme o’ the doses /
Annie Rooney in a scooter disaster
Mining club loch ness
pervert w/ a TaN—
TeN BiLl fold
ing stAMp AcT
could not mercy beam
of brief bubbly bareback
, > truly a grease , at rest a
zit
Unbroken chronological endeavours
Lobster marvel consultations
organized Prophet of
Status Quo fetishists
,, time<ed> fast ,, wavering
view=
POINT (confined map) >>>
polar buckles
signify regimes of omissions
/ Archipelagos increasing NuDgInG
tracts;;;;;
turn,ed AN [is]land=
filtered visibility
institutionalized translation
, fantasy shrieking , merging , upended
mincemeat , polluted
imperialist texts
adjacent
, NeItHeR nation
exigencies,
recirculatory
COLLECTIVE
monolithic nautical
interchange
Kitchen Sink Screwball Comedy
A recognized shell
equated to a Burgundy SNAIL
handspun whiskey rebellion:
WHO MUST
HAVE
KNOWN
THE
INTRIGUES
of former snowmen
as sadly deformed as
WOLVES?
Ah. Yes. As. Soon. As. All. That.
Xmas comes up never a
time in which art lacks
a source of glee.
Leeks. Cheeks.
Speaking in
voices hardly
transparent.
Vitriolic cosines
on teleprompter angelic
remote controls /
as funny as
a fruit CAKE
cavalier & just
as steadfast.
Once
stood
up
as
squished
.
A
game
of
pin
the
nose
on
the
dapper
DAN
impresario
.
Until then
stubborn as
a hopeless
romantic
the NOMAD splits
an ATOM in
all that
destructive
& ashen
puking.
All that lines can
resemble /
Still bored to stiffened
swimming /
Wires puking arbitrarily
into skulls /
Unlike in youthful un-
determination /
.
/
.
Brighter pigeons
prevail upon
pie in the sky
prancing masses
spin in parachute
advertisements
justly concerned
that falling might
mean the horror
show of civilization
in all its fabled
glories.
Eager!
Eager! Eager!
On the wall they
hang a star.
Eager!
Eager! Eager!
Racks of gummy
bears sing a song
or two or 3 or
MORE despite the
flulike symptom
engulfing these
FIELDS of
DRIPPING
nightingale
winglets.
As formless
as a
bat & as
graceful as
a glockenspiel.
no one
else has
heard the
march of
techno
disease.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is a member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books O! fragmented glories (Argotist Ebooks), Prismatic Fissures (C22 Press), and peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
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