trans-pecos ('25) poems

poems i had written at 2025 trans-pecos show i'd seen/gone to nyc for

*what also includes poems from when i was stuck at grand central cuz i messed up my trip planning and had to stay overnight there till it opened the next day

"Counting on forgiveness" (Summer 2025 @ trans-pecos)

My vision smells hazy
EXIT
Twelve hours of recess
On Wednesday
9 Day5 a W3ek
I want to exhume you--
Genital artifact crying in
Leathered skin
[Choke you to death (4)]

"Vile like no human consents to work for free" (Summer 2025 @ trans-pecos)

Ripping off warts
And eating them
Cut your dick
While shaving
Arterial escape tunnel
Dug with spoon-razor
Behind slut poster-shower curtain
Brittle infection
Crunches in miniature
Nail-ridden skin flap cannibalism
The speech of the world
Becomes you
Juicy dark meat torn off of
KFC 7 secretly spiced chicken bone

"bleh." (Summer 2025 @ trans-pecos)

Tumorous & lycanthropic
Quasimodo in unlit form
Neck stuck out in an insinuation
(An invitation)
To fit the
TikTok girl triangle
Peg square hole
Keywords made up by invention
And exsanguinated--bloodletted--thereafter
Whence beset by benzoed boredom
A nauseous contusion
GgggggGG
-oosee--

"Tautological interrogation: WOMBD" (Summer 2025 @ trans-pecos)

Burning arachnid
Eats autodidact
Eggs for sustenance
Moore's Law-- that
Infernal furnace of ~~death~~
Visionary Dream luck
Breaks sputtering
Fluorescent tube into
Tracheotomy dusted
Shrapnel maw
Cobalt and 6th grade
Canva presentations
The incandescent glow of immolation
No one will ever follow us here
(PidgeonzEatingBreadcrumbsInTheCandylandLicoriceForest)

"Grocery list: buy tissues" (Summer 2025 @ trans-pecos; finished @ grand central station)

My misophonia eyes
Bleed tears of unloved
Geraniums
Crusted evidence of disturbed sleep
Inarguable as iguana tangible in
Gelatin glove restock New
Upload slime ASMR
Excrement escapes everywhere
What with its
Double slit broken windows
Peer into violence
Into uncontrolled, chaotic lethargy
Profile is: boombox
And visible difference
Assailed always on a second side:
Now it's the au gratin gentry
What have the gaul to go again
...
Jealous is not the end of it
La Joconde behind bulletproof
Glass behind corded rope
And crowd and museum and country
--hidden, horded, or withheld?
Side splitting like bad
Jokes and juvenile teacher-run
Jeopardy games
A thousand arrows in the sky
The kind of rain that staples your tongue
To the sodden earth
--The taste of peat moss
And red hair bristles
A potatoe is not a person
But a weapon-- an ecumenical incision

"Astley II: (ur) never gonna live it down" (Summer 2025 @ grand central station)

Gossamer galavanting in the greenlight
15 minutes to pump
And dump before people remember
The art of cartography
--How to read a m.a.p.
Parasocial obscurant
One of the non-BFGs
Is at work tonight
Telling lies, testing treatises
Johnny's papa stretches
Out into black hole spaghetti
From medieval torture machine
A delicacy to/from the computer
*boyinaband said Elon was #swag

"Technical difficulties (That's The One!)" (Summer 2025 @ grand central station)

Tambourine testimonies
Sound tinny when done well
That's why the Mistborn mancers love them
Instrument /
/ for instruction
/ foreign-struck shin
Going down the toilet to
Where the rats live
My hopes and dreams
Challenge the French chef's ideas
Or do I misunderstand them?
My eyes close on their own
Sitting at slant entrance
My left shoulder peels away
From its blade like cartoonish effect
Like bushido defacement