Vocation

First they taught me the strangleholds,
then they strangled my dog.
I'm talking about our goodhearted landlords!

I'm the brain in your nose.
You're my favorite electrode.
I wanna be your cocaine.
I wanna be your spasmodium!
I can teach you the strangleholds.
We can strangle our goodhearted landlords!
 
 

Hamish Bowles

Hamish Bowles - wax on sandpaper - Jacob Freeze - 2012
 
 

Twenty-Teens

Start with salt.
Add saltines.
Nestle in the stove.
Tell us everything you know.

I know wrong from wrong.
I know 2013.
I know all the best chefs are cannibals.
 
 

Memo from Hiroshima

Insecurity

Are you the ape that ate my Bible?
Are you the cop who gobbed my zoo?
Are you my boobs?

What we really need is more transparency!
What we really need is more incinerators!
What we really need is more transparent incinerators!

Are you my boobs?

How many is too many nightingales?
How many is too many gardens?
Can you see in the dark?

Are you the ape that ate my Bible?
Are you the cop who gobbed my zoo?
 
 

Life

 
 

Old Lakota Man

I was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, May 4, 1919.
Before me, they say, ten thousand generations.

I don't want to die in the white man's hospital.
I don't want to die in the white man's paradise,
in these windless rooms, looking out at a dog-tooth skyline.
I don't want to die like rain swallowed into a sewer.