In a stall bathing in wall-to-wall carpet
︎︎︎ Joshua Martin
︎ JULY 20, 2022
Ended merged squeeze
mercantile anus in the fields
of goalie’s anxiety at a
shadow puffing radioactive flourishes
Sneezing wails made species
disreputable lashing tonsils
independent clause needy
speedy cracking underwear
model skull bashing worms
>/////Take over polluted
river machete binge
/////[less purging ideals
political diametric
pen of iron shackles
humanely indulging vomit
]
Less attractive
than morse code
thank you letter
shuttering lightening
bugs listed in order
of misappropriated
roadkill
mercantile anus in the fields
of goalie’s anxiety at a
shadow puffing radioactive flourishes
Sneezing wails made species
disreputable lashing tonsils
independent clause needy
speedy cracking underwear
model skull bashing worms
river machete binge
/////[less purging ideals
political diametric
pen of iron shackles
humanely indulging vomit
]
Less attractive
than morse code
thank you letter
shuttering lightening
bugs listed in order
of misappropriated
roadkill
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press), and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com.
Also by Joshua: Mouth-ammunition of this island