Marginalization
Feeding frenzy of game
“doesn’t have to shoot
like summer says”
imposition of the unwanted
sidewalk guest
to the Corinthians
I dream and I am no man
slow spiders
sick my shirt off
sat under skirt
loose-footed
laughter
inside
her legs
are yes
better
the blunt
than the blow
colder to be the gun
than the bullet
winter’s gun season
summer’s bullet season
molten stingers, scorpions of the universe
exhausting revelation
lips bursting more
men in me
children I uphold the heavens
drunker than country
a pack has now formed
nature’s ordained us to lynch the night
without reason or grace these are side beliefs
the hunted are still slaughtered
Vincent A. Cellucci wrote Absence Like Sun (Lavender Ink) and An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press). He edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink). He has three collaborative titles: come back river (Finishing Line Press), Bengali-English translation collaborations with Debangana Banerjee, and with Christopher Shipman ~getting away with everything and _a ship on the line (both from Unlikely Books). Vincent performed “Diamonds in Dystopia,” an interactive poetry web app at SXSW in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018. After writing and living it up in Louisiana for 18 carnivals, he moved to the Netherlands to experience sinking some place new. He haunts the TU Delft Library.
