Jonathan Hayes

Jonathan Hayes is the author of Echoes from the Sarcophagus (3300 Press, 1997) and St. Paul Hotel (Ex Nihilo Press, 2000). Recently published by __Sidereality__, Some Words, and Tin Lustre Mobile; he edits the literary/art magazine Over the Transom.

Green Curry Thoughts

t.v. rehab

blue dolphins

pure mind:

AAA battery

robots and newspapers

the last menthol cigarette

a clock, ticking
inside vein

the bed, a victim of gravity

heaven is horizontal

the problem is in the heart
not the mind

i like to read at night
lately, the night has been reading me

rain is a cleanser
mud is always the answer

the more i find out about you
the less i know you

the more i tell you
the less i have inside

a departure
into blue

walking on six inches of air

it's harder to forget
than it is to remember

the store is closed

the red balloon loses air

i want to leave peacefully
but, the damage has been done

a political theory in her eyes

the strategy of getting in and out
during war

maybe i¹ll move to new jersey

you could be my assassin, not just lover

showing up in the hallway unannounced
and staring through the apartment door

arriving with animal tongue
and teeth of pain

serving big ugly bruises

there are lots of things i can¹t get over

numb:
narcoleptic arms

drool-stained pillows
and your boyfriend, waiting
to kick my

ass

BENT

the anus reeks
of death in the morning

baking soda + cocaine
= tainted Pyrex brain

yellow, white and green
pigeon shit dried on jeans and t-shirt

dimensions ago
not noticed

Walgreens: strawberry Pop-Tarts and Spider-Man comix

pink panties made in Honduras and charred bits
of broken glass on the bathroom floor

a silver dildo
on the desk

erection by memory
for monument

god is Electric

blood on the index finger

a full-body

ORGASM

prolonging moment / mors

green neon blinks : : :

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