billy cancel
Counterfeit Nero where’s your faculty x?
you walk yourself idle in various stylized floral
designs training each and every mischief through
tangled gardens and trackless wastes and whenever
you come across a vicious dog upon a long chain
from roll to loaf you just switch while distracted
herdsmen their overly high tech exo-skeletons
are still all stuck outside more lost. down
elderberry lane lived another
Counterfeit Nero who i resided
with for some months during
which time all my dreams
alternated between
watering hole attack
and industrial collapse.
more Skin Walker Salad
for us harsh collective
because stuck in the
moment there’s nothing
to do but make use of faulty
images in such Agitated Cityscape
where at first light again
we’ll be going code muzzle
given this pixie census confirms
what we already know that SORROW
rides shotgun. is this the Great
Let Down Giant Slump or another
hour of toad? since today heralds
the cut off of the influence of faye -
dancing - aliens - always - landing so
we’ll be going code mizzle as per the
tradition of alternative facts
and Unknown
Gods to come.
billy cancel is a Brooklyn based poet performer and artist. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, PENN America and The Rialto amongst many others. His latest collection BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE is out on Broadstone Books. With Genevieve Fernworthy he makes up the pop / noise band Tidal Channel. Visit at www.billycancelpoetry.com
