Thursday, July 30, 2009

i find manicotti to be inedible

sit. stare. click click drag drag.

her mouth wraps around her face

it feels like 1000 purring kittens

Pablo stares and no one cares

he is, no doubt, a virgin

putting the smile on and on

i tripped over your deflated ego

we are all going to hell

Sunday, July 26, 2009

july 21, 2009

that's a lot of blueberry goop

it's been raining, streets are wet

overhearing conversations I know nothing about

the boys left down rainy streets

someone sat here before I did

thrift store searching, no better discoveries

green fields hidden on penthouse roofs

your cleavage distracts me quite well

not sure there are greener pastures

to be insecure is very 2008

high-speed trains shuttle; everything direct linked

we appreciate bar music drowning conversation

we've been here before, running madly

we've seen these buildings swallow sunlight

city memories consume every single street

we've been here before, perfectly still

nights meant for sleeping, spent manic

kitty susan lizz @ the pourhouse on 11th and 3rd

July 26, 2009

the creek is wind in trees

Saturday, July 25, 2009

six word line poem

when I call up my mother
she tells me not to worry
but I still do, always do
I hang up the phone, seething
I make some instant black coffee
sit outside in our screened-in porch
realizing an affinity for square-edged objects
things that come in box shapes
like books and packs of cigarettes
things that occupy a definitive space
and I think of my mother
at home in her living room
trying to keep things so simple
condensing all events down to facts
for the comfort of definitive structures

- joyce, on my porch

7/24/09

three couples all touching each other

he chugs a high-alcohol content beer

a phone call intercepted by screaming

flame flickers amidst liquid wax, waning

closing my eyes against his shoulder

ugly girl sleeps with the bartender

this bar boasts: no poetry allowed

can't hear. loud bar. text me.

obnoxious boy asking me for keys

man wearing a floral sun hat

writing six-word poems instead of talking

can't hear what anyone is saying

biting the skin around my fingernails

social outing becomes confused and isolating

gonna erase you with my head

hey zed, my boyfriend is here

hey jesse, do the monkey face

bar poet looks like a loser

I hope you're falling in love

men more attractive in the dark

your words are muffled by screams

judging you by your juke-box choices

singing "take a load off fanny..."

you're cute. you look very similar.

have never noticed these blue shades

strangers with all the same agendas

strange looking hair-do makes you intriguing

doesn't know what he's getting into

where is he going to sit

this girl's hair keeps touching me

that guy's collar is seriously popped

no matter how loud it gets

six words are not enough to ...

yer pretty hard to understand, love

one, two, three, four, five, ten

santa claus is kind of sexy

blind people are creepy as cher

thought bubbles aren't really that TRUE

white booty shorts in my face

we are destroying your poet book

yer poet book is DESTROYIN' ME!

yer destroying is poet book me?

everything's part of holy soviet history

beer that tastes like apple juice

are you depressed or just asleep?

- joyce, kitty & jesse, @ effin gruven

Saturday, July 18, 2009

July 18, 2009

baby blue button-up, tucked in

paradoxically, I never knew the land

Thursday, July 16, 2009

july 16, 2009

a door no one has used

upside down boxes from greener pastures

flies are swarming into one another

an aging pile of cigarette butts

amidst the garbage strawberry bushes bloom

two men passing a skinny joint

someone is calling my name loudly

the tomato plant stretching towards sunlight

jars of used vegetable oil sweating

conversation with men two yards away

accidental backyard group of sorts developing

nodding in response to something unheard

those things will kill you. hopefully.

written behind the restaurant at work

July 16th, 2009

I fell in love again today

last night was heart attack weather

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

july 15, 2009

lenny kravitz is half a jew

you did not go to RPI

he could have gone to RPI

my life is becoming a joke

her beer has arrived, she's happy

sometimes we're happy when we're not

half of you don't look twenty-one

the offspring's on, that's always good

vegan meat eaters in the corner

a woman too tan to hide

a questionably homosexual pair touching knees

one time you drank irish coffee

offspring's still playing, this is life

bar is crowded. where's my burger!?

two old men pointing at me

you have an eyebrow. singular. eyebrow.

they probably think we are lesbians

I wish elliott smith was here

elliott smith was probably a jerk

he'd stick us with the bill

I do not agree with that

we treat animals better than people

I know a lot about sharks

I tend to sympathize with sharks

chips are no one without dip

the choices we make don't matter

I don't feel good about this

we're talking about where you live

going to sleep with him tonight

we are discussing streets and avenues

I like chocolate covered rainbows, too

got to get out of here

are you depressed? you look it

done with this shit ::blows nose::

I've been counting our entire conversation

big belly lady sits at table

kitty and zed @ croxleys

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

7/13/09

i think of you, every day
it's so hard to be far
i write stories about walking dogs
but i think of you, always
about how it's wrong waking up,
my green sheets are too cold
two more dogs pass, more stories -
even though i don't write anymore
i lie awake, thinking of you
who writes out handwritten letters anymore?
look at my handwriting, it's shit
but i write in my mind,
letters to you i never send
stories of dogs, two more pass
i love the idea of dogs
i guess i mean to say
i think of dogs, loving them
and i think of you, always

- cameron martin

Monday, July 13, 2009

7/13/09

i think of you, every day

it's so hard to be far

i write stories about walking dogs

but i think of you, always

about how it's wrong waking up,

my green sheets are too cold

two more dogs pass, more stories -

even though i don't write anymore

i lie awake, thinking of you

who writes out handwritten letters anymore?

look at my handwriting, it's shit

but i write in my mind,

letters to you i never send

stories of dogs, two more pass

i love the idea of dogs

i guess i mean to say

i think of dogs, loving them

and i think of you, always


- cameron martin

7/13/09

where have all the poets gone?


- joyce, @ work, wants someone else to post, please

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

7/8/09

dusk sets in and then black

lie down and sing soft lullabies

nightlight keeps away the scary things

I hallucinate shapes made from shadows

nightlife keeps me up at night

sit and smoke and swat insects

I always want summer during winter

standard deviations make my head spin

follow the curve or you'll die

swerving out of the lane, sometimes

bumper sticker: tailgaters will be shot.

adjacent bumper sticker: violence is wrong.

another bumper sticker: beat women silly

my raging feminism radar is wailing

joyce the feminist, beat her brains

brian the misogynist, break his bones

I love you now fuck me

it all boils down to him

it all evaporates up to god

god is dead no one cares

neitzsche hates christians and loves art

sounds like someone I might know

the grass is never green, joyce

lie down, touch me, feel me

I want to feel, emptiness consumes

let's be friends and write poems.


- brian and joyce, @ work via gmail chat

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

7/7

biggest and blackest and most handsome

it always looked better in 1024

the furious race to benjamin's butthole

hyphenate, punctuate, and spell check, bitch

the perpetually flushing toilet in there

peeing in it is more economical

you are busy but you're happy

they share the same oily skin

who is this hairy legged intruder?

i saw the Chupacabra in Elmont

in other words, i hate him

and my freckles are probably malignant

7/7/09

please let me kill arrogant co-workers.

break my heart. just try it.

too much sunlight and no illumination

can't write poetry under the influence.

strum guitars and bang on pianos.

exaggerating your self-importance to hipster bartenders

twenty-somethings trying to induce drunken stupor

- joyce, @ work

Monday, July 6, 2009

just for kitty --

the root of all evil: beer.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

07-07-09

my left hand is unequivocal; obsessed.

bricks in thunderstorm half-light, I'm cured.

golden gate! bridge my examining eyes!

I implore you. Listen. The Sound...


-michael martin

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

07-01-09

I am a three-layered fish whale

gotta come here with a purpose

-joyce and kitty in a car on w. olive/w. walnut

6-30-09

they looked very satisfied with themselves.

-joyce and kitty, re: scary voodoo doll truck driver on long beach road, island park, ny