drkobra

Happy New Year Everyone!

I wish you all the best for the new year.

I went back home to Indianapolis and saw the old factory where my friends and I had studios. It was recently purchased by the city to make into office space for state and city departments. To see it in such a state was kind of heartbreaking, but at the same time...
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I am tired of Cranbrook.

I'm back! for another year of mischief.

Shipoopi!

Hi everyone, My subscription here runs out on the 22nd and I've decided to let it. I'm not on here that often, but it has been fun and I hope everyone does well... you can always catch me at my myspace!

xo
Matt

The Recording is Shot

Brain smoke body broken dixieland blood radio
drag my nose on a dream, pixel people drinking
but she listens to it, more or less, all night.

A few voices in the garage.



bassoon clavier & brass

Chicago was still in bed;
he woke up early and dark,
laid a lead jacket on her lung
and violet petals in her mouth.

I zigged when I should've zagged

traumatic wakeup repeater
in grave walker vibrato
crumples his car
cuts a bunny with a mower
dies a thousand times
in a glacier trolling its beard
through white flecked forests

splayed on rocks
phosphorescent chyme on moss
stewed tomato aorta
cerebellum shivers
from firefly camping

Poems, uncollected ( May 2007 )




Untitled

White ribbed shirt two layers underneath,
hair: pigtailed curtains draping her face.
Tough armor; her bare shoulder broken
by a beige strap. Caps the color of freckled fists.

While she changes; see through my head
the simple equation of a parachute. My beard
measures her neck.




Nobody's Home

Her damp red hair; she shakes the rain while crashing...
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Thermodynamics

First Law

She stood me up! her eyes disappear
at dusk. She had elegant gowns
no twentysomething could afford, but
when she wears those striped socks, I am a Roman
crafting his meagre verses boxed in
by the barbarians; some bloody saxon'll
wipe his carcass with my manuscript: germs
descending to burbles in the burp of a sparrow
from Portugal two millenia hence.

Second...
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nevermind