Twitter Poems
Twitter Poems
1.
Here’s a real list:
“A video of a smashed open skull with people eating from it; a woman who was kidnapped and beheaded by a cartel; a person’s head being run over by a tank; bestiality; suicides; self-harm; children being rapped [sic]; births and abortions.”
On Twitter I saw someone try to explain that, actually, a dark age constitutes a lack of sources,
As if that’s not the case.1
2.
The poetry guys are friends on Twitter.
They talk about their own deaths.
3.
A Greenland ice sheet broken off.
Right wing wing militias.
Kodak dependencies.
Biodynamic certifications.
How bad is the suicide epidemic?
Who of us can be written off?
I’ll say it:
Nobody is incapable of redemption.
No wait, I mean:
Nobody is capable of redemption.
A weight off collective shoulders.
We’ve all lost hope when the world is at it’s most open.
Political education from a grid of CNN headlines.
You can only look back at opportunities missed.
Kafka’s The Trial as an HBO mini series.
Is there a code?
Is is there there a a code code??
4.
I’ve never had more hope than this.
Jokes about the twin towers.
Why do I read big books on Columbine?
Money burns with the brightest flame.
Distant gunfire as a metaphor for revolution,
That’s why it’s calming.
This is the future.
Restless dog.
Restlessness dogs.
20,000,000,000 streams on the new Sufjan Stevens album.
Sightings gone unreported.
Many people frozen in the dust-covered street.
They point up and say we’ll need a new language.
Again and again and again I approach silence.
We’re producing horrors.
We’re producing ourselves.
We’re producing nothing new.
I am the guy trying to stay calm.