jon-michael frank
from Diana Ross & The Supremes |
I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking |
don’t go away happy face t-shirt I’m breaking apart
my love one animal at a time comfort is certainty I’m good at other worlds popcorn gets vestigial in your hands reality as senate the girl with the black lips dispiriting in her orange juice there’s a debt to what’s not there you can’t control your structures Halloween pumpkins a day later I put a monster mask on conjure desire |
Do You Love Me
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I don’t want to stay like this half a yin-yang necklace
all my life needs is less world we get sad in our neons for each other your fear is a horse head what don’t people say anymore hope puts its hand on a banister great statues get shit on it’s hard to not crave more the curtains flame off there’s nothing for us to surface to time sucks I saw a man in pain once everything seems to stem from that |
How Gentle Is The Rain
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you’re dead when you go away I wound myself in
witch love an enviable pile of trash candor is a bed bug the deafening of how we are I pinch myself a now another white person in the woods memory is a worm I made friends with a kitten I believe people are moods a smear of mauve a blade in a wet bag I wish I felt irl in real life |
Wonderful World
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what the fuck does transcendence matter skull like a little flower
a move partly towards ecstasy at any moment I could be brand new I excavate a mall goth winter you wear this little festoon of wounds I accidentally put life in everything the dystopia of real self it’s hard to be interesting I’m empowered by what the sky doesn’t do your heart has a master a tremor of mysticism things go really away a cave hole in the distance deliverance I can lack into |
JON-MICHAEL FRANK is the author of two chapbooks: Diana Ross & The Supremes (Birds, LLC & Black Cake Records) and Here It Is My Beautiful Fucking Heart (El Aleph Press). He is the acquisitions editor for the small press BIRDS, LLC and runs a reading series called Fun Party. More at www.jonmichaelfrank.com.
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