Heavy metal works on me
Published by Prototype Publishing as part of Prototype 7
ISBN: 978-1-913513-88-7
2025
the extent of life. Electricity cables
hum only meters above our head
We don’t share a house
only our connective tissues
especially the ones between
our articulations & yes
sometimes a bed
Coldly-roll-my-body-away
I can’t get the dream to go
far enough to see
the moment when we
play out all the
irreversible processes
at once
The cat runs out
from behind a parked car
into the sound of two black holes
colliding you say,
Let's go there,
friends do that for each other
When you get annoyed
your words fall out like
heavy metal
What a relief when
the computer comes up with Error
There are 4 separate jars of mayonnaise in the fridge
no one likes it that much, for real
you read me a poem by Bernadette Mayor
Do you think that line is kind of dumb?
cat pic / dog pic / sea otter / bunny
you said you don’t eat anything with a cute face
I asked what about me
that's what we do: Dinner
every meal I have eaten until now: pointless
Weighted blanket
Sensory de-
I don’t like noise and
sometimes your snoring
is like
heavy metal
Unlike hot air balloons
I am ecstatic with what have
feels like a guitar solo
so low
so perfectly structured
oh I'm in heaven again
with big fat fingers picking steel strings
four paws across click clack floor
went out today
trod in dog shit again
why-I-ought-to-oh
be in heaven again
Find the line in the poem that says this
Find the line in the poem that says all of this
Find a poem with only the outtakes
A poem that comes on only
after the credits roll
like a baby, the weight of the
word up on my shoulders
my life plays out
in the never ending scale
& oh
I’m in heaven again
with all the windows open
Cu
after?
where we can get
together with my elements
and measure what kind of
satisfaction we get from
this sort of exposure
I CANNOT
CONTINUE IN THESE
CONDITIONS
or
CLIMAX EVEN
Is it just too much?
in like forever
instead dysfunction &
cell death &
oh it’s going to break
the speed of rapid
steel supply
so quick! don’t go –-
joining no groups
I make all of my decisions
without the right information
I go out to work —
I come back again —
I go out to work —
I come back again —
only to find more jars in the fridge
including one you have labelled
with
DO NOT EAT !!
:)
Next door cat not come home
Think we all know
what woke me up was your
counting atomic numbers &
everything succumbed to the drip
drip
drip