"Falsified Integers Maintaining Distance," "Noble Realizations as Calm as Canyon Newspaper," and "prized and obscured"

Falsified Integers Maintaining Distance

Halt! which goes the printed cultures
draped upon graphite office gossips
squirming as NEAR to objective juice
as bowling ball hands can affirm.
 
                Always warm unless tattling
          , a tale retold as lemon freshness , ,
 
                       ‘what meant the crabby
                        mischievous heels robbing
                        cereal heirs for a chance to
                        relish in adaptability?????’
 
                                     gorilla fever blister
                                     hut bereavement STAMP
 
prig of the transistors. Lines drawn
                            octilinear           forgetful bandage
                                         groups.
 
          Fingerings relent. Lessons carry soiled
                                                 subjective meningitis.
 
On guard! poisonous pool skimmers
                                bandied about
                        , ignored elephant glossaries , ,
                                                                gobble
                                                                gobble
                                                                gobble : :  it suspects
                                       a knighthood in
                                       the state of offering
                                       glum aphorism :
                                                                    wither NOT,,, then
                                                                                        bunt!

 


 

Noble Realizations as Calm as Canyon Newspaper

hollowed Rorschach vibes
 
                           ¡Fetch!
 
aye, aye, aye
& a bottle of purple detergent flesh
 
            pOd
            uPoN
            pOd
            of sink dwellers pondering
            the mighty zoot suit scuba diving
                                 machine guns
 
welcome mat pinnacle
running in place errand
 
                        frisbee referee
                        coalescing pariah
                        zany patchwork
 
           ¡Splat!
 
nervous tale of two tremolo agitations
burnt to crispy tortilla elegant display
 
                               core zeitgeist
                               muffled tulip
 
anteaters collide in worn out sheets
breathing metallic bridal gowns
 
                     willing assassin
                     dunking cookies
 
gingerly peeling
crOp Of shackles
            sEa Of banging hEAds
 
                          post NO pornographic zithers
 
        ¡O!
 
                ¡Ouch!
 
blister blasting beaver brooms
carrying flower pots into sinkholes
 
                                        watch as the feeding
                                        becomes enormous

 


 

prized and obscured

struck!
      infinite panic picnic.
 
sleeve boisterously obscured
sanitized lingering dollhouse
 
              promenade pigeon pierogi
              torn capital pressed pimple
 
    Resist!
an olive storm chasing watch.
                 toward bowling ball chimney
       mentholated wrapping paper gum
       horn
            bald eagle
                        sophomoric whisper.
 
pleurisy without snail mail
     as worsened training boil.
 
                                  harpsicord
                                  mountain
                                  semi-transparent.
 
re-adjustment
treated as folly.
              coronation witness cornea.
      drugged
                 cape be soot & sieve.
 
                           uncivil!
                   uneventful!
 
                                  compassionate twilight
                                  covering stampede.

 

 

Joshua Martin

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is member of C22, an experimental writing collective. He is the author most recently of the books peeping sardine fumes (RANGER Press) and [Ruptured] >> Schematic <<  MAZES (Sweat Drenched Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com Joshua recommends the Morris Animal Refuge.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Sunday, October 29, 2023 - 21:29