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Where I Came When I Was Married so I’ve thought It’s exactly like this is tit for taught tight unbalanced unbeamed unthought sounded sound out sound loud I can hear you scream it sounds like sound the wedding bells ring OH jesus this is is is not boot camp is oh good how it is not is but if you think about it you it for a while are because if you think it was who are is but through out I’d like to think hello good to meet you this won’t grow old in a new town now front lawns manicured for the lawyer’s consent have the total unsubmission I oh no oh is forgot gotten into the worst cases I’ve cased myself in in the case of cases and I caress because I love a whole lot and I like the touch of skin and moon and the blue of the light is through gazebo light blue gone soft it is only light and only under the un for there no one gone no no no one gone understand? it is like this see you have thirty seconds to answer and leave left leave leaf triple eee leaf Montreal it is in Canada it is there where there is AHH oh and OHH um how to go from here her hair under there the mantle piece it is secretive and sensitive and not easily misplaced places are placed in places god it is really horrible how difficultly simple I find everything (whistles) it makes me want to quit under the spreading chestnut you motherfuck oh how to unthink for I’m in under the overhead THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME TODAY gone is my simple thoughts though thoughts think stupid squid unable my ability makes me sick I’m capable of everything and the city is bright and big is this is is over swervey curvy lover o hot shit O this is what poems is it are for this I go for you my loved oven mitts and catfish sticks stucker stick how on the microwave you fit the refrigerator magnets next unperplexed our children sit high they are high president today perfect set the table sits cable television oh fuck where’s the baseball game my whole world holes-in-hold o hold on on for the gotten in the glove I have spoken with the manager I’m still in I’m sure that I have plenty of innings left you looper (LAUGHTER) this is not far from over and where have you been this is likely to have gone on forever ever after mother under the table get up it’s not funny anymore the dogs don’t even bark fuller gutter fucker the way the grate would ask “… it’s a good thing I’ve plenty of children?” you think I should have babies in the woods should have in but where’s your lumberjack sweetheart where’s the ax to cut the thing from you for un oh uffff god this is making me sick I think I think this is not always what my dad calls poetry HELLO DAD but this oh ugh un ufff ooo it hurts like a motherfuck I’ve got this ache in my neck and in each knuckle oh nickel fist first meet me in the back seat set suck fuck oh damn well please bye the garden well by the garden wall meet me by there we’ll talk you and me yes fucking you you heard me didn’t you meet me by the ocean wall I’ll call out sand sunned in Sunday teeth I’ll call out cabby cab under the café roof come to me oh come it is not bye example I lead my lead rope roped the dope there in the shower you’re cleaned by the hope of a good person that you believe in sounded by the back of your throat you say: GOD BLESS AMERICA and there were things under President’s fingernails that sounded like tea is ready ding dong oh get the fucking door in the council you had your hour in the town you found that there was nothing left but cooking shows and time for making babies why’d you have babies for because I like to fuck why’d you have babies for you knew not to ungot the married sorts of knots I thought it’d be fun oh let’s all get married! I’ll meet you in the park you bring a ring I’ll bring a ring a ring a ding sing my ring is lost I’ll marry the fuck out of you anyway I love you see this = love I have always thought this is of is are to be is too are not god under GIVE unto myself as I Have under myself You it is oh so sexy I feel hot now This Is A Happy Valentine’s Day Poem I hoped you liked it un up oh I oop I Hoped unto un I hope oops I oh my good god ud I hoped for the sake oH this is MY Greeting CARD I think it is done now I have made You for this I think you’re wonderful under Christmas lights I’ve got your nose have you NOticed I’ve given notice to the foreland landlord that I got out a couple months before I was born It was what? Shit Logan I thought you thought but You’re very very stupid. I don’t think there was music theirs there was it? oh too many twice-time questions I like to do that because I’m not smart where were you when I was born? I was born: SEPTEMBER 16, 1977 1:57 P.M. Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento where were you and what were you thinking? I think I was thinking I think this is what: oh light what light is this oh light I wait now for music that’s that that’s what I thought! I think good golly how Holly was hot in Ramadan I thought but it’s never going to get old under the FM/ AM in the morning I hear prettily my sound begin in the morning the real sound begins after my dreams and you dream and we’ve dreamt and I think we dreamt it don’t think it you under the chestnut remember I sold saw owed you a dollar kissed your bridesmaids placed my fingers inside you where the ring gets lost where I look as always I do go down weeding gown and sawdust I saw you however I am a big fan of honey and the sickle and a sick amount of sick shit my house is full don’t ask I like to talk dirty during sex and forget I was born forget it I have no death to live I have not shame same in the sea see it was there where they left me I hear the ocean all the time and it’s more disgusting than pretty You think You know EVERYthing but you don’t and that embarrasses you as much as it does me as much as me as is for the who are what is how? you know you think you do think about it TAI CHI I used to walk from Chantelle’s place on 45th in early morning and see it done off the sidewalk streets with no real need for afterthought and that’s what I think this is about the no need for afterthought the only under over give in this is it is there already given gone for the naught I’d like to think there where they move against the ocean more gracefully than it these people moving where I leave people and it’s over and there’s the gracefulness nest of grace it is not really given but accepted I have walked along city streets and thought I am not holy |
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logan ryan smith
lives in San Francisco where he publishes the chapbook press, TRANSMISSION, and
the
now defunct poetry mag, small
town.
His first book, The Singers,
will be published by Dusie
Press early
this year. A chapbook, this is
affront you pig, is set to be released in the spring of '07 by
Catfish
Press. Two e-chapbooks, ghosts
spiders &dogs, and, amber faint,
were published by Detumescence Press ( detumescence.com), and a third
e-chap, 2 poems from the bottom of
the barrel, can be found in Dusie's
4th online issue. Recent poetries can (or will) be found in New
American Writing, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey
Magazine, Drill, Spell, string of small machines, and online at past
simple, and Melancholia's
Tremulous Dreadlocks; as well as in the
anthologies, Bay Poetics
(Faux Press), and The Meat Book
(Hot Whiskey
Press). He can always be found at theredgummibear.blogspot.com. |
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