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Full Bloom, Part I
WATCH CLIP: “Intervention”
INTERVENTION
Monday
“Ok, Vantrice,” I said, wheezing as I exhaled the way my therapist had showed me, “You have five minutes.”
“Five minutes?!
We Were Germany
How can you write poetry on my wall?
you can’t write love
when you raped the world
We were Germany
annihilators
sinking Europe with our poisons
and
rotting hatred
W
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
1
Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Traumatic Brain Injury
for Keith Lamont Scott & Brentley Vinson
after the fall
he sometimes sees things
that are not there.
the book becomes a gun;
the gun becomes a book.
he cannot distingui
Storm Roof
these boys are all the same: the bowl cut the soft chin the skinny arms under the thrift shop jacket the aspergers gaze (not quite at the camera, not quite at you) in the one pho
Swollen feet
There’s a body in the basement.
Smells of musk and lizards crawling
over fleshy pale hands that look like
they just lost an apple.
Aspirin-laced wine, just a half a bottl
Lebensunwertes Leben
“I wish you could get a prescription for a suicide pill.” He depressed the gas pedal slightly, and we inched forward, a foot or so closer to the drive thru order box. While he
Flemish Cats
When I was in college the student pride center put on a drag show, and the campus paper asked me to interview one of the performers (queens, rather). I found him, after the per
The Wendigo of Cape Canaveral
The Wendigo of Cape Canaveral
I
furnaced charnel fuselage
crumpled waning,
dying
rod
Raind down Pa on Texas sod
devoured man whom self had gnawed!
Consumed the black man
white dud