From Anchorage to Zebulon: In Search of Missed Connections
Awfully Beautiful by Thomas Hawk
condescension and lies in the name of falsely defined compassion
hail nothing
hail the hollow void of
of what
the misnomer lies
falsely
void of compassion
in-defined
hollow condescension
and what of?
hail hail the name of nothing
Nervous System by El Bingle
A delusion of the nervous system,
illusory abstraction,
giving a version of “reality”.
the “reality” of a nervous system
illusory
abstraction of a version
giving delusion
Ghost Writing Old Typewriter by Tulane Public Relations
a secret told by one heart
and guarded by another,
someone who knows you
as no one else can.
writer and ghost
one by one
you told a secret
guarded by another
someone else
who knows as
no
heart can
Dinner for One by Georgie Pauwels
Men are
so predictable,
she sighed.
All you really
want is sex
and to be left
alone.
Don’t forget
dinner,
he replied.
-Bison Jack
Bison sighed
positions are dating
she don’t really want
all you predictable men
so he is left to be
alone
forget dinner
replied Jack
and sex
Crossroads by Jacopo Marcovaldi
The crossroads always presents itself when we have to choose between what we want and what is right.
Do what is right.
Have faith.
what is faith
when we always have crossroads between
right and
right
do what it is
choose the presents
what have we to want
what is self