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Paris 8 · Lady K

COSMETICS

Night is the perfect mascara
Every bump, every turn, every pothole,
Crack, fissure, splinter, snap,
Fracture, rupture, splatter, break,
Slit, slash, scratch, split, every tear.
And lipstick? A beacon. A breeze.
How someone connects to a knife.

Michael H. Brownstein

 

BEFORE THE MATCH

Gleaning from smoke

I want to get cursed
And not care
I want to be chosen
And refuse

I want me a smokin joe
Dear
to take me right offa
These blues

Lay
the
landing
gear
To rip me straight
out
From these
Blues these blues
they make me wanna
Curse

And misbehave
Blow my smoke in a wide
Range in some wade fountain

Or other memorial

They make me wanna
Cruise
in buiks longside
Massive transportation

With no song on
just
A joint in the past

Gearing up

Before the match so to say

One true threat
Ima write u dear smoke back in
a mirror like a spider's dusty
glass
u are a figment
A pigmentless feature
The passed on get

I liken u to a virus
With
No symptoms man

A creeper stealth I never
Knew
Stonier
In death and sleeker
Cuz u don't
Even EXIST but u keep
Many mugs
Just
At burn
From the
Boil

Certain temperatures

Confident heats

Intruders get
Swooped
Up

And away
And never again
To multiply vigorously
Or dwell unmoved

Co-lecting dust
To dustbrooms
Stripped
The walls
Allergic eyes weep
No glass returns
Entirely empty

Bree

Vroom · Eric Shaffer

 


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