cocoa (a packet of the boils)
boiling so I’ve broken the milk the echoing snorts the puppet lamprey this is the breaking code a lantern to annoy milk box, I said too green of a milk in the nearby wood with the jutes marbles, ok? a shooter! on the corner with the oranges the neighbor with the power onion lemur on my face lands of reason we dine here controlling the roses the dada fish the frost of the forest in the beginning was the big gulp I was golden away from the rice dream I had been cooking ham I heard the hum of seven scepters mars was the boise the blue gatorade rug I slicked back my hair like jon “bowzer” bauman I used bacon grease from a coffee cup in the fridge & was sent home from school with a note Bio: J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. His poetry has appeared in many small press publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Visit http://MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado.
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