"Spats Copy Sightings," "Last Shell Mania," and "Christened Table Zebra Strut"

Spats Copy Sightings

          Academic
          sloth
, three billion venomous FBI posing
                                mimesis   ,   receptive
                                                    monkey
                                                    specificity
:
] porpoise literature contrast
                                      [ glassware Platonic
                                            correspondence
            :
     ‘No Ninja Functional Action Shelf’
                 ;;;;; gorilla republic
                        resulted carpenter
                        humility palace ;;;;;
 
Seditious resemblance plumed
while climbing an imitation ideal
 
                               HoT   hOt   HOT
 
           thrown overhead
           wearing ripped implication

 


 

Last Shell Mania

poultry air raid bombastic
missionaries regenerate scabs
sore momentum badge
constructed wholesale bee
 
                     crock
             a.m. - - - studies
             puzzle MASK - - -
 
munch stalwart
      hug
           (((((freeze)))))
 
attitude
     lewd
           branded boxer
                     shorts
        degenerate
 
                                funicular
                                feature
                                toilet
                                bask
                                mystery
                                pulse

 
monkey see
                monk eat shoe

 


 

Christened Table Zebra Strut

fuse don’t burst
          chemical flagstone sunset
          trumpet pool crown of throngs
 
locusts wheezing stubbed toe memories
valor sailing gazing bandstand threatening
Sunday of anthill group groping ginseng
 
                      all the way
                      restarted
              plum             pudding
       rafter                           mania
seldom                                      elevator
                 crisscross bonsai
                 jaundice honeysuckle
                                       welt

 

 

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 [Ruptured] >> Schematic <<  MAZES (Sweat Drenched Press), destructive paradox slips on banana peel (Cajun Mutt Press), and Dance of Resistance Brainwaves (C22 Press). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, Synapse, Version (9), Don’t Submit!, BlazeVOX, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and experiential-experimental-literature. 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 Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 20:13