"16.13" and "16.20"
*By life and media in the USA, beginning January 6, 2021.
**Marcus Dodds editor/translator, 1872 edition. Gutenberg Ebook #45304
16.13
like a floating city
the sargassum island
sojourns
off the shore of
florida,
mystically influencing desantis
to install aug-
ustinian orthodoxy
in sarasota, and the new
pres at new college says
he'll unfund critical
race theory and put
those woke motherfuckers
to sleep for good
here city of god meets
city of an other
and the broken husks
wash up on shore…
you can smell the stench
for miles down the beach
16.20
when lot got rich e-
nough he needed
to get away from over-
bearing uncle abram
and besides feeling
certain urges
threw his lot
in with the sodomites and
headed across the sahara
with his concubines and
camels, sort of like desantis to-
day struggling to get
trump's avuncular
dick out of his ass and start
his own orgy in iowa (with
casey behind him all
the way of course)
Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. My ID, his eleventh book of poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in October, 2019. His novel trilogy, Three Letters, was released in 2021 by Spuyten Duyvil. His verse memoir, Memory Wing, was published by Black Widow in 2011. A chapbook, surrealism, was published in 2016 and translated into Spanish by Enrique Solinas and Peter Thompson; the bilingual edition was released by Yauguru in Uruguay as surrealismo in 2017.
He founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, and Diálogos, devoted to cross-cultural literatures.
He is the co-founder, with Megan Burns, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival.
