she said never use gossamer in a poem
and while it isn’t likely
that I ever would
I have used mottled
and oleander
words I’m sure
she’d deem equally offensive,
yet, no matter how much time we spend
cheating on them with others
we circle back around
to the same old books
the same music
the same shit
stuck to the
same shoes
to words
that should never
be used
in poems
Photography © TJ Edson
cutting and pasting after whiskey/before coffee
usually results in
more than just a few
fuck/shit moments
when the sign at the coffeehouse
reads; beheaded smoothies
when simple submission guidelines
legalities
and formatting
become more ponderous
than conservative politics, and
the fauxhemian hipster
toiling over his
shitty poetry.
When he isn’t publishing The Montucky Review and editing poetry at The Bookends Review, Ag Synclair walks a tightrope between banality and certifiability. Widely published in the small presses, he manages to fly under the radar. Deftly.
TJ Edson is the Art Director of Oddball Magazine and a volunteer at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery. He has also had work appear recently in Terrarium.
Leave A Comment