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I love Pat I love Jane I love Maxine I love Ron
I love Ken four leaf clover chains I love Marilyn
my heart bleeds my empty broken heart I return
to John swallow rotating dice I was born a fish a web
of love I was born to win wishbone red eyes I love Steve
daisy daisies red stars red roses swallow my love belly
button nipple hairless skin horseshoes swallow my love.
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home
an ant
a ghastly flower
cigarette butts
goofy, confused
water cracker
ice cube
schoolboy portrait
postmark postage stamp
butterfly in black & white
french fries
ankle, foot
rectangles
a single die
inkblot
unlit match
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skull bone light rubbings
grass condom wrapper
windows chimney smoke
fetish blood an opening
the moon bad luck charms
a letter you didn’t receive
false memories
the edge of the page.
Ha why do I always return
unimportant things
thinking
poems
unanswerable questions
the past, the future
when the only moment is
(light pierces interruptingly from the skylight
to reflect off an apple watch into my eye
because it’s beautiful outside, although
it will be dark by the time today ends)
What were we talking about?
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Red Club Heart
Spade Diamond Red
Diamond Spade Heart
Club Red Heart Diamond
Red Spade Club Red Club
Diamond Red Spade
Heart An open hand
A closed fist the size of my heart
Chest & abdomen Implied groaning
Remembering Important times
Dates, ink, color Red Club
Heart Spade
Red red
Red red
Red.
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
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