SEETHING DISHEVELLED EMERGENCY CHAOS STORMING MACHINE

fade out brain jumping pool of comatose jazz band glorified timeless joy in the form

of a stereotypical enigma

when out ran the train to meet destiny coming face to face with a buried mirrored artifact

the red blotches that formed above lips and on forehead cream soaked berries grew wild bending over burnt branch grilling dried lightbulbs under heating pads

a dawn covered room making measured movements relying to release relapsed perhaps reinterpretation more necessary like bare asses squirming in rigid seats

as unfortunate as all life’s various misinformed ideologies becomes something other than in the last subway car always in the back always brooding eyes and heavy-handed lungs like fish whose scales when rubbed create astounding music

avant-garde determination unrealized eras postmodern description ignorance bliss

academic circles heavily convoluted codes of wild nonsense

crisis of modernist expression

variously ebbing flowing true form pessimisms to make slamming fists tables darkened rooms

making reasons how seldom make outcomes any easier to swallow with in ease stomach full

limbs twitch where thumbs find nowhere to rest

carefree days illusions desire in excellence without elegance in the labyrinths

history’s precariousness

peculiar urge to run into strangers on the streets who refuse to share sidewalks never giving an inch never offer more than half-hearted shrug eyelashes overly combustible personalities ill-conceived form and content

if one without the other

movie houses holier than any church ever built to human lies

battery flavored curbs outside the realm impossible determination

west coast predictability

loss idealism from many angles odes to history’s breakthroughs values knowledge expressions in times of war peace

circles drawn in snow hot yellow urine proves nothing

relationships reshaping rags resell new fashion monstrosities criminally tasteless

cannot be anything longed for in thought after thought isolation having taken up the contrary

relish in alternative outré perverse

balancing a tricky proposal to achieve lacks almost gleeful in disregard for facts and one wrong direction lasting

time takes experiment to crumble last train out already gone chance of another tracks destroyed

instances sundry remarkable timeless

find fresh wounds unbearable

past corners onto curbs burnt scars drama the passing time torn building filled yet unattended limbs bare

of already poisoned summers average length life’s monsters

stacks of shopping carts so much trash under the sea

fireworks came edges attached to sick money winds buried feet first neck pulled tightly fingers twitching full of bulldozers paved road car traffic nightmare

tight enough slow down under goodbye ancient trees broken impaled tomorrows ponder the shape of sullen dew

limousine sky for no purpose

other forlorn branches

uncovers screen door muscles

screws stapled fingers maps currents dancing fireballs penetrates repels notwithstanding

blisters forming grimaces covered with graffiti unevenly

coma in d flat minor circuitous sunken cities

borrowed paths

engulfed giant squids

in the pale toothless adoration

arbitrary spittle caked

immense flavors intermingling wreck of midday diamonds

thunder rain pouring purges rotting fruit stomach lining

sky absorbing coat hangers

extreme poles defeated in gravity

sealess oceans

uncanny angles

an endless straddling transparency

humidity

exile gestures refuge cadence

imprecise contradiction

curving spine

borrowed streets

for no reason noise

watch the limit repay

boats clipping piers

controlled aftertaste of paper planes crumbling

tightly into around over spasms

in nonsensical order

shivering all-encompassing mass distraction

wild dime random unforeseen in outer space extends reality all in all in all continuous distant strangled dents change the length of cheeks

zoom in/zoom out clear-eyed in length

opaque blizzard sizzling

marching giant profound necks

mammoth unsound stray excessive eyes forever in the fever dream

imagine the tossing turning climbing dreamless zero

sewer pipes staring maniacally bracing unanticipated sight of slight destruction not subtle variations misunderstood at self-contradictory moons dirt roads a theory will finally give triumph a blankness tested

by Joshua Martin

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in Ink Pantry, Streetcake, The Collidescope, SORTES, Prolit, E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, and Fixator Press among others.