Literature12.09.23
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WHAT I GOT DRIFTS / OR THINKS IT MAYBE KNOWS ME GOOD

An excerpt from Liam Jacobson's debut collection of poems Neither, published by Dead Bird Books.

last night i drempt today

id ;lose my teeth at th wave pools wit dad

& inc ase i couldn’t talk i <embarrassed

mycel>f admitting terror or fetish to porcelain/

bathroom sink vortex & charcoal toofpaste tube,

fora lil feelin /clung atmy brow:

the dream hangova

keep me’s closeby to its will , &witTH carwash vision toys

wit the thinnesz of sure mirror & roof plaster, spunning

me back to wehre

we trickd us awake’ from, & the

walls are animated with faces

(i haven t seen a in long times , again. “i am found by

— msyelf saying at the kid of me

‘call me as u are,

’away with the noise jazz improv>ed by my set-dresser, that

plays i as fuzz in mostevery nap hour

.y e s i a m caught with

the twirlin of the worlds that sought me out

out of place, outta body halfremembring

hair or wild grass biting underfoor . & from cloud grotto,, taken

aback like candid kindsa love rs

first doze.

“drift infru the night drain“lick blues

“Som timestill i scream aaaa

loud alone whil drivin thru

go(o)(d) night canal.

Alterations to formatting were made due to website limitations. Read the original poem, and many more, from Liam Jacobson's Neither. Available from Dead Bird Books.

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