ALEX GREGOR
Image by Daniel Uncapher
|
from Faucet |
|
i been settin here a long time
stuck in this misshapen form, speaking in tongues through a mouth full a yodel. went to tie up some loose ends, realized they were ribbons. untied the knots & unwrapped the present: i carve a circle around my navel & crawl out. |
|
just do what the fish head,
& bucket. sink your teeth into the peach, & pit it out. it's time for a corn shuckin. CAN YA EEL IT? put it on the pizza oven. put it on the pie sill. let your clam silt. let it sand box. let her ice cream pearl. IS YOU ROLLIN? cause i might knead. CAN YOU REALLY TASTE TIME? to be tasted. let's starve out all over again. in a multiverse of bubble machines, i was into the banana moment, WHATEVS. this is a worm hole. WORM. your grain can't steep, so ima mull mine. ima slaw. ima pitch yeast, slow motion for me, the honey combs on trees. they flow like water. they sow and they sow, until the well dries up. the morsel of the story is the end so LOOK BACK AT IT. like how could i fernet my flash out to date? pull out the lettuce, APHID, i been tryin nutella: CHECK OUT THE TANG. i just wanna tick, drop the line, let it sink, reel twice, then bait. i go to tie lace but im not snailin you out a this one. the seed's in the chicken, the fruit's on the bone, CANDY PAINT DRIP STAIN, I GOT A MAUVE TUB: BOOK, this is the tart where you & i fryin pan. laundry bag, you ain't a mirror. mirror, you ain't a towel. pillow, case. nah, you dintin. you dintin even know it. like i have no shelf to hold. on a scale of one to ten, DO WE HAVE TO USE A SCALE? a symbol is a symbol is a symbolon is a shard to tuck in your tummy: twenty sausage biscuit. u speak of burnt bridges, but we can float boat – by building a stove from the flame up. you can spell my tongue by the way i roll it. i don't know when but i say WANNA COME? i feel good i feel great i feel like fryin it all over again, but i don't grow these peaches, i just pick em. why waste time fishin when you got an antenna? PENNIES MAKE DOLLARS but if we only had a nickel. WAIT. what's this WE SHIT. what'll the ducks lay when you leaf? what if this bidet sprays in my face? i mean can you please TUNE THAT DOWN a whole step more but MO TURNT UP mean you gonna hafta TURN UP MO. it’s just that you can't bake a chicken outta one soup & broil it in another, so let’s just let every wing fall into its plate. i mean whatever washes into the cave is fine by me, but there's no hair to grow in a cul-de-sac. can the wave function as an electron, be divided and trapped in a helium bubble? make it make it don't spring forward or fall back. gut the cat & restring the pulley. load the potato gun. roll me on my belly, fill me with your frequencies: i want em sunny side up. i want em scattered, smothered & covered. i want em buttered-up & battered-down, deep-fried & glazed-up, tossed in sauce, wrapped in foil, & thrown under a heat lamp. the squirrel's out the closet in the duck district. i hit the bottom of the sardine can: up sprang a soufflé of roses. . if a hammer hammers in an abandoned building & no one nails it – we'll burn that bridge once we get there. one man's ailment is another man's tonic, but I NEED ALL THE KELP I CAN GET. button me up, zipper me down, dust me off, ima trophy wife. SLAP MY ASS & CALL ME CHARLENE, except when mounting, catch and release. in the place of intonation, sometimes the glass really is cleaner. i'm talkin about a little place called ASK AGAIN. when a lot became a heap became a hill being over becoming over it is the friction between the sticks that makes the spark. WHO THE FUCK IS MAKING THE ONION RINGS? check the binding. |
ALEX GREGOR is a writer, editor & teacher currently living in Rome, Italy. He is one of the founding editors of OOMPH! Press and the curator of PERM PRESS. His chapbook, FAUCET, was selected as a finalist for The Atlas Review Chapbook Series (2015). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Queen Mob's Tea House, NOÖ, DELUGE, Entropy, Jacket 2, Real Pants, Fanzine, Deer Bear Wolf Magazine, Muse /A Journal, Dream Pop Press, and elsewhere. He has a MA in English from Georgia State University. Follow him online at www.marginalcomets.com