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Animals (Part 2)

from Live at The Sickhouse by Stephen Lin Poetry

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The most powerful works of art are born of necessity
a cartoon bee sells erectile dysfunction medication

in the commercial break between a mini-climax
and the powdery sketch of an overdose

a handgun is pressed into my solar plexus
a black face mask revealing only eyes and mouth
as if eyes and mouth are all that are needed,
I believed the urgency choking his words,
as if he were pleading

but im choking myself to feel a pulse
a sloppy heartbeat against the moment
of a poem.
Drugs can't help me get it up.
my self-consciousness is a flaccid
ejaculate
smears the honest release of poetry
tells the disappointing child
“We planned for you but I
love the accident of your brother.”

i promised myself into silence,
remembering the economy of language.
the absolute, unthinking calculation
of a bullet's trajectory
and the lyricism of my nervous babble.

i broke the silence to tell a joke.
the punchline emptied me.

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from Live at The Sickhouse, released December 24, 2014

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