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January 20, 2025 Poetry

Two Poems

Owen Avery

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Shut up and drive

The negation of the negation takes up space;
you ask what’s wrong but I never know.
And realize it’s been five 
years of roadkill and I95
spinning CDs that skip over
her favorite track—
it goes again and you 
think back to that night,
dilated pupils, concussed-theorizing—
ultravirus burn-core particles infect the judgment of god

 

Snow is falling in Brooklyn

Boys speaking Spanish cry by the Gowanus;
runny nose and I’m close again. 
Messaging the infinite, 
asking for cash back. 
How many times have I been here before? 
Wondering if substitution 
ever reaches the origin. 
Addicted to this feeling, 
mitochondria eat your television. 
You will have nothing and enjoy it.

 


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