Mum Tanking Billiard Ball Bearings
three puns & parrot obituaries
stampeding barbwire shrugging wolves
slurring grocery store monkey moonshine
departing without resistance inhalation
hurray for good riddance drilling pints
racing against aftershock televised hot dogs
formerly a beer gut mathematical bullwhip
dressed in typeface gutter denial chateaus
a merry-go-round template of a stalling
alongside geothermal nose onion caterpillars
wrapped & futuristic & blessed as a timebomb
horn-rimmed jumpsuit shingles
picking tortoise playgrounds like halitosis
a little further trapezoid tea party serenade
munch-munch-munch kangaroo relegation
shortly blamed exotic fog machine tomes
an assignation mindfully rancid in tree form
archaically full-sized though vexing wallpaper
twenty-years reflected in a shoebox pinwheel
attempting flattering fountains of taco quarantine
seen jutting & scratching & hollowed like an oasis
pouring subjective snails into a blender
where the annex slaps sausage lightbulbs
recording incognito orange pork climbing pores
through glassy-eyed gorilla kissing mosaics
borrowing champagne crudeness below grade
prisoners as delusional electoral dictionaries
enveloped in an imbalanced tomato virus
it all falls inwardly like a cacophonous canopy
turning round & round until tunnels ripen
deft billowing toupee mockery
beach sedan circus cleaver
empty silk naval mushroom
sleepwalking measles bend
teary of course organs
incompletely cosmic Dodo
resigning salon stratagem
fetching sundry accents
humiliation purification drums
anthill sacrilege poodle
cyclone represents cubism
melting trapdoor element
elephant in a coma
recorded commune DNA
knackered hunger skins
flinty scorpion species
gloom in bloom in June
idealistic ozone plaques
vibratory wooden acropolis
opaque languid puppets
fall compelling fatigue
bare the intoxicated ennui
hot air balloon diatribe cushion
common comic pathways
stroke roast lackeys
left abrupt hatchet contours
treasured criminal quotations
steal flighty thin wrestler
decent opposition buttocks
independent muscle stools
shattering rhyming exhibitions
rendered headless hyperbole
no-whim-no-shoe-no-commercials
Ambushed Vaporous Scolding Noisy Delirium
tender diseased hoofs describe morphine water jugs
teetering like a crawling immune system dime
cushioned against a droll revolver skyscraper village
given to impresario draperies
then the kneeling lampshades devour luminous petticoats
drunk on hacking chessboard larynx ribbons
chasing telephonic jawbone chalkboard horoscopes
finely tuned as in simultaneous sandwich cigarettes
so bored that cannibals relent with sparkling chrome
twiddling earthy vacuum crescendos
at last a cosmic perversity t-shirt pimple
reconstructed in fig-like manneristic brutality
devoted a celebratory aversion
fried and baroque and framed skeletal tambourine decomposition
somehow less influential than celebrity celery
though temperamentally furniture
centuries oozing hammocks of scabs
clearly porous in train track voyages
a lasso of a terrain of a bubbling eucalyptus proverb
although skin diving like cantaloupe blueprints
fists shoved into squirming church pew oinking
neither immortal nor concise nor the staccato dresser drawers
then an injury combover judgmental tenderness
disclosed in physiological grasshopper approximation
squeamish swift debauchery livewire aquariums
covered in mutating stomach reservations
then the knives disappear empty as a hedgehog pheasant
whistling Modesty Blaise tabernacle latrines
polishing tooth manipulation adoration sucker punching guts
ugly and spinning and pouring empty gazes into sprained photographic squalor
lifting. sifting. dragging puzzled footnotes
revolver hotel sinking underground shopping spree. vivid fable. overtaken rideshare vibrator frequency. mention stingray to receive 20% off. brain sandwich dysfunction. propositional temptations yield circumcised hinges. before oxygen and after guillotine handshakes. other side of the carpet rodeo broth arises from the effortless fin-de-siecle fins. negative exertion purification. sleuth a considerable t-bone milkmaid. all these magnetic schisms spell currency space heaters. developmental shock value monopolies. all relative vegetative wristwatch typhoons thrusting parking lot criminal activity. carriage. carriage. set-up. bomb squad regurgitation doctor’s visit embarrassing a biblical disintegration method. measure. whiplash lindy hop. soaring peace talk dungeon zoom. poke. sucker punch in modest shrinkage. beach towel s&m heart attack maps. maketh chemistry bodkin assemblage specializations. tribal to the point of porous parapets shirking responsibility. management zit valves. jukebox stooges. thrice shivering turnip vest. must a vein rupture in assisted suicide x-ray palm trees? runt. punt. stevedore until reaching mammoth posterity injections. another punch. running in place. cardio mischief. hunger comedian dancing in a blimp. braided handlebar vinyl demarcation. in chaos we trust. coconut diversion. thorax in willful obscurity.
Slink and Dribble in the Hazy Beaver Mist
Chrome induced a shallow yeti
explaining kitschy salmon cubes
to underrated fizzling nobs:
graced, shorn, lambs dressed in
funereal real estate opportunism
dangle puzzle pieces over trampoline
martini scar tissue gall bladder:
tadpole or the disc jockey running
amuck though village squares armed
with a radioactive heat pump?
welts of greedy birdhouse analogies
descend upon hopium cultural
diplomacy channel surfers at
various stages of drowning plea
bargain masturbatory disadvantage:
scream, a scammer building advice
columns out of whalebones while cellars
drift through cosmic dairy debris armed
for the hostile takeover of kilt factories:
if tides pool resourceful scum buckets
then why do all manner of toupees
fear the economic implications of
synthetic ice cubes?
bald sympathy cards dwelling beneath
inferiority complex jaw stretched until
thinned like a kangaroo eating bowls
of wilted cherry popsicle despair:
one curfew stigma sets in the clutching
vice of memory unfolds a burning locket
of criminal neglect upon a sun-spotted
dental hygienist longing for something
more than a job security goalpost cult
of empire
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 Approximate Preparation for Cannibalistic Symphonies (C22 Press), isolated version of nexus (Pere Ube), and lung f,r,a,g,m,e,n,t,s before grazing *asterisk* (Moria Poetry). 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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