Virulent madness & everything
you touch dies with you.
//
After a few weeks I remembered
power and forgot
//
everything I believed in —
I tried riding the motorcycle
//
but couldn’t put it into gear.
I’m not who I wanted to be.
//
I’m mad as hell and I’m not
gonna take this any more.
//
I walked around thinking
about you, feeling bad.
//
It started drizzling. How
it makes me wonder if
//
I imagined everything
until my jacket soaked
//
through.
//
(steals from the movie “Network”)
Joe Nasta (ze/zir) is a queer writer and mariner based in Seattle. Joe is one half of the art and poetry collective Eat Yr Manhood with Cass Garison. Zir first book can be read for free on issuu and zir work has been published in The Rumpus, Entropy, PRISM International, Peach Mag, and others. Ze co-curates a zine of unconventional art and writing at stonepacificzine.com and is currently part of the 2022 Collective Autonomy in Practice Cohort with the Operating System/Liminal Lab.
About the Creator
Joe Nasta
Hi! I'm a queer multimodal artist writing love poems in Seattle, one half of the art and poetry collective Eat Yr Manhood, and head curator of Stone Pacific Zine. Work in The Rumpus, Occulum, Peach Mag, dream boy book club, and others. :P
A Hiatus Turned Reflection
No, I wasn't dead, nor fighting off some great mystical beast tyrannizing a group of villagers. To those who look forward to what I have to say, or to put it better, write, I am genuinely sorry for my disappearance from the Vocal platform and community.
By Dailyn Townes3 days ago in Humans
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