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Barton D Smock Nov 2024
Design
a late
animal.

God is everywhere.
Obsessed
with birthplace.
Barton D Smock Nov 2024
the lamp
eating
its bowl
of light
Barton D Smock Nov 2024
Some animals have had success dying behind god’s back.

I squeezed in an airplane
your hand until it broke.

(that toy
car
from our blue
mom)

Storks
can’t lose
blood.
Barton D Smock Nov 2024
My youngest brother sends me poems and they are bruises on a radar that’s having a secret nightmare and I am afraid that if I touch them they will be touched. I’m not an alcoholic. My food eats prayer to starve me. I haven’t heard too many in my family say Palestine and it makes me want to trick them into saying pain. I hate my son but in a very sonlike way. Others hate my son because they think he looks at the moon believing god made stuff. I haven’t been sleeping. It’s okay. My insomnia is a keyhole in the shape of my son’s access to angels. This is a death threat machine. A bomb scare machine. Tomorrow, fake the earth.
Barton D Smock Nov 2024
A white sock
cannot pray
for the rabbit’s
stomach.

Look at stuff and die.
Barton D Smock Nov 2024
The disconnected god of blood

The wasp of loss

I don’t have your headache, kid

A cigarette looks for its teeth
Sleep
for the older
wrist

of proximity’s
nearby
ghost
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