The New GROTESQUE
D.I.
The New GROTESQUE
D.I.
D.I.
We made ourselves
ugly :
I carry within myself a deformity, a terminal code, decay, your decay,
adolescence : disembowel me
: cut-up my political archives,
my monochrome mass, my dark ecology
: what’s
left will be necromancy.
Why don’t we go to the market : dead dolls collect data & cry their merchandise loudly.
Come buy : come buy : our savage poems & our lethal phrases : don’t make corrections : kill the narcissists with your metaphors : & if everything else fails use the suffix ‘ectomy’(removal).
Come buy : come buy : those great key words : canary turquoise radiantly unrestricted : faux pas & wilderness : don’t look back : come buy : come buy : the words of the day : deep dreaming & projections.
Check out the method of presenting the facts in reverse : why not do it better : remix the mottos of the century : forbidden rites, flowers of fog & nothingness : salamanders, dynamic protocols & prosthetics.
There are no odes to beauty : reread the false narratives, the private mythologies : what do you have to offer : diaries, dates of birth & short answers don’t count : why don’t you edit Cassandra’s dreams : why don’t you unwrite them.
Come buy : come buy : the last mirror words, jokes & dazzling techniques, our filters : clairvoyance, languor & recasting.
Do what you have to : add to the long list of search terms : make the words : who wants death.
At night, the new breed of undesirables laugh and scream : WE’RE MORE THAN WITNESSES.
Why don’t we go to the market : dead dolls collect data & cry their merchandise loudly.
Come buy : come buy : our savage poems & our lethal phrases : don’t make corrections : kill the narcissists with your metaphors : & if everything else fails use the suffix ‘ectomy’(removal).
Come buy : come buy : those great key words : canary turquoise radiantly unrestricted : faux pas & wilderness : don’t look back : come buy : come buy : the words of the day : deep dreaming & projections.
Check out the method of presenting the facts in reverse : why not do it better : remix the mottos of the century : forbidden rites, flowers of fog & nothingness : salamanders, dynamic protocols & prosthetics.
There are no odes to beauty : reread the false narratives, the private mythologies : what do you have to offer : diaries, dates of birth & short answers don’t count : why don’t you edit Cassandra’s dreams : why don’t you unwrite them.
Come buy : come buy : the last mirror words, jokes & dazzling techniques, our filters : clairvoyance, languor & recasting.
Do what you have to : add to the long list of search terms : make the words : who wants death.
At night, the new breed of undesirables laugh and scream : WE’RE MORE THAN WITNESSES.
D.I. has published poems in ZARF, Tears in the Fence, DATABLEED, Litmus, Blackbox Manifold, and the anthology Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). She curates aglimpseof.net, and is the author of the experimental novella Soy Sea (Futura, Athens).