3 Love Poems
J. Bradley
Ask her to aim her index fingers.
at you. Aim yours.
Ask her to aim her index fingers.
at you. Aim yours.
Standing in the pieces of a broken guitar
I screamed at the summer for sleeping around
breaking my heart with the rising
in those days I drank wine from the bottle
stranded
I remember
the first time
I saw a foreign
cherry. I blushed
a little armpit.
I saw how a cherry,
in it's candied boredom,
could stain.
The other not truth.
Thus
I had the milk from a dandelion all over my hands once in the sun and in the cracks of my palms and it was getting on my lunch, I kept thinking.
Once my mother painted my fingernails
feeling in pain
both emotional and physical
I head into the light.
In the park
wholesome children play
their healthiness
throwing
last night's
relative sordidness
into sharp
The barista is so pretty
my girlfriend would be
disappointed if I didn't
cheat with her.
Modern Conveniences 2012 - 2014
There were moments when I forgot about the dog
Whining and shivering, like a toddler in its playpen
Her instinctual nature, A visceral outward cry
I
1.
In human beings, the wink is known to convey one of four emotions:
Sexual invitation
False sexual invitation,
Nonsexual expression of friendliness
POEM ABOUT MY VIBE
my look tonight is Asking For It
a tight vibe is U Can't Have This
I only wanna be in VIP lines & get compliments
god grant me the grace to maintain my
Two teenagers finish the last apple in the house and then wait for something to say.
"I'm thirsty now," one says.
The other unseals a new milk carton from the fridge.
They both
A little nervous after my 70,000th cup of coffee this lifetime
I was wary of forty-three year olds
(statistically, murderers are on average 7.5 years older than their victims)
though
That’s / when the purple doors open into steamy / bathtub of surprise. That’s when there’s / an impossibly-deep Prince breath & then—
By living according to core values, we can carry on daily tasks with conviction. Conserve fossil fuels. Avoid the plastic cycle. Too much looking around can lead to paralysis due to the inevitable sense of unfathomable vastness that makes consciousness feel like an infinitesimal quirk.
“An extremely rare Pokémon that may evolve in a number of different ways depending on stimuli.” – Pokémon FireRed
I’m a symbol of an America newly forged and I live with like 1000 other turkeys in a yard Who gives a shit
Opus 53
Place the palms of your hands side by side on this wine glass. After a short time, raise your hands and place your eyes at the same level as your palms.
Notice the possible and
- after Directing Herbert White / Writing Ellen West
When James Franco first spoke to me, he said, “Oh, shit. You’re Mr. Hip. We were just talking about you before the reading.”
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Woodcutter
It started when you dreamed you were dead & I had to go looking in other rooms for your body. Turned on each light & either I found you or it was apparent by then that
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
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