Dessert

Dessert

 

EPIGRAPH
 
“I’ve seen some shit.”
Author unknown.
 
 
MY MACAWS
 
Deleuze and Guattari.
 
 
VOLLEYBALL
 
I played one year.
My freshman year.
 
 
ESMERALDA
 
Her heart was set on lacrosse.
 
 
THE OVERNIGHT CASHIERS
 
They took and moved them all to days.
 
 
MINDS OF STEEL
 
Like reindeer have.
 
 
HOLDEN CAULFIELD
 
The whiny little bitch.
 
 
BEAVER DICK
 
No it’s not that big.
It’s like this big.
 
 
HEAVEN
 
Move in ready opportunities.
 
 
PANIC
 
Weakness in numbers.
 
 
LIVE STREAMING
 
We may have crossed paths
In our recontextualizing process.
I guess I never really looked up.
 
 
THE RUGGED SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN WEST
 
It’s hard to keep up the original vibe.
 
 
THE ASSUMPTION
 
Sister Aya tried it.
Now she has a strained oblique.
 
 
EXPANDING LINE
 
Is this what Tuttle was talking about?
Bringing Matisse into the discussion?
 
 
CREATIVE LOGISTICS
 
Everything must go!

 

 

Randy Stark (http://www.randystark.com/) resides in Hemet, California. He has contributed poetry, essays, fiction and arts criticism to magazines and journals in the USA, Canada, and India. His recommends independent, progressive radio station KPFK.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Sunday, June 7, 2020 - 22:16