billy cancel
Ornamental Hermit you’re not wrong
though overcast aluminum is the Underground
Garden & weird beasts grimacing human faces
peering down at you is what it is i’d much rather
be pissed off than pissed on in some Cybercurrency
Mining Farm mumbling “i want to believe Sock
Puppet there’s more than the Mad Minute then
my slide into delay.” through that endless
black frost February we spent too much time
tapping on the glass & noting their reverberating
lag then predictable macromania yet we did
find a home in that Cockpit Fog did we not?
though our luminosity caused a big reduction
in ratings. you join me live from the stomach
of a Trojan Horse parked outside Diseaseville’s
main wall a single point of failure has now been
established & rats snakes weasels centipedes worms
insects are all racing out of the City past me in droves.
—Submitted on 05/20/2020
Billy cancel is the author of Mock Trough Rasping Crow (BlazeVOX Books, 2018). A poet/performer and sound/collage artist, his work has appeared in Boston Review and PEN Poetry Series. Billy lives in Brooklyn with Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds); together they perform as the noise-poetry duo Tidal Channel. Online at billycancelpoetry.com.
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