If Coleridge Could See Us Now
Later in the night, not long
after the clowns left
offended, we were
all talking
about the albatross
of our avant-garde
but you kept going
on and on about Kubla Kahn…
Dialogue is Difficult
"Tennis without rackets
looks kinda like catch.
She told me twice over
green martinis. And I agreed again
not because she was right
but because my beer was
warm or empty or
maybe it was scotch..."
The Circus
Knowing that if
it came to fisticuffs
the ape could take me
apart like cardboard
I ran and hid behind the mime
whose so-called wall
didn't help
much.
The Bachelor
I had a dream I held
the World
Record for single longest
nipple hair.
Everyone wanted me
for their parties and bar mitzvahs.
Everyone
but you.
Hormones in Milk Make Life Hard for Pedophiles
She says she wants me
to love her
like they do
in the movies
and for a moment
I think she means
I should pretend, but then
she brings out the cock-ring.
Travis Macdonald's first book, The O Mission Repo, is available from Fact-Simile Editions (www.fact-simile.com) and his second collection, N7ostradamus was released by BlazeVox books in late 2010. Basho's Phonebook, an e-chap of experimental translations is available at E-ratio. He currently lives, writes and looks for work in Philadelphia.
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