Sunday at the Boston Poetry Massacre

For Friday, go here.

For Saturday, go here and here.







MITCH HIGHFILL



"Epithalamion for Gary & Nada"



It's all about the way something hits you



I often scorned those who watered me.

Even the greatest oceans do.



Sex poems are trophy poems.



as if the cosmos was sitting off-center



[passed his poem for Bill Bissett so we cld see odd spellings]



"just a little flarfy"



I am the freespeech zone.





JACK KIMBALL



Laura Bush likes to clean.



Men have become substantially feminized.



I was born when minimalism was all the rage.



Bite mich! ("Sorry Mitch. That's German.")





MATVEI YANKELEVICH



Babies don't deserve money.



I haven't been writing much

and that's been true all my life. I don't like writing.



If poets write poems, then readers write readings.



Inventions got the better of us, so we decided to throw ourselves away.



You lingerie angels: good, bad, indifferent.





MEGHAN CLEARY



I am not diplomatic



I'm no prize

but I can cook well.

You should taste my apple pie.

I make it with a buckwheat crust.



It was all I could do to lay stripped on my bed.



Now we are talking kneeling down

at the base of my grief.





AARON KIELY



What are you majoring in?

How to prove I've read books.



She knows my passion

and she feels abundant.

My passion makes her feel abundant.



Lord help me see people

so I don't bomb them

and cut their heads off.





NOAH ELI GORDON



"I'm going to read some paragraphs."



Rain on the sidewalk is

rain on the ceiling.

And my suit is just right for the job.



Magical realism, mute narration, or just jack-in-the-box psychosis?





MICHAEL CARR (right?)



Unlike most cowards

it means sit and watch for the subtitles.



I still like art deco

with respect to a format.



They call these ranchers jolly.





DAVID PERRY



Steal the wheels right off my locked bike...(sigh)...fucking hell!



Double lives: don't lead 'em.



My country don't want me

don't exist

don't leave me



The danger out here is shameless.



I'm guilty as a hall monitor

sucking up to porn [?]



All I want is to get up early and surprise a few clams.



If you're anything like me, you're not velour.





CHRIS JACKSON



Pulchritude doesn't sound much like what it means.



You should see the golf course.

She in plaid.

He in Coco Chanel.



Since I've quit R.J. Reynolds I've learned exactly what control is.



I'm Jack, the bad pirate!



Foxy, but not beautiful.



My teeth: these cute little white squares and triangles. [Big smile]





MATTHEW CELONA



It looked at you provokingly,

the Book of Ancient American Proverbs.



In the flip fuck book the fuckers were flipping through the flip fuck books while fucking.



What pleasure is there in seeming to whip an empty balloon?





LORI LUBESKI



There is a plateau flat

across ivory layers of skin.



The liability of a wide road



My one bold indestructible force strikes a match.



Rain comes indecently.





MIKE COUNTY



You can rip a new asshole for anyone these days.



Michael County, please hold for an important message.



When the form came, there was nothing to place in its container.


Applause and cheers for [expurgated]!