Your credit rating speaks for you.
You starve families out of their homes.
I only threaten to conquer kingdoms.
I could write a book about what you don’t know.
You starve families out of their homes.
Casino chips hail onto the Jersey shore.
I could write a book about what you don’t know.
I’ll cover my throne with your hide.
Casino chips hail onto the Jersey shore.
You promise borders to keep out darker skin tones.
I’ll cover my throne with your hide.
What sound bite will rally your troops today?
You promise borders to keep out darker skin tones.
You are what you think your subjects need.
What sound bite will rally your troops today?
They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime.
You are what you think your subjects need.
You never think of who is beneath you.
They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime.
You are an architect of ash and salt.
You never think of who is beneath you.
Your credit rating speaks for you.
You are an architect of ash and salt;
I only threaten to conquer kingdoms.
J. Bradley is a writer based out of Orlando, FL. He is the author of the graphic poetry collection, The Bones of Us (YesYes Books, 2014), with art by Adam Scott Mazer. His chapbook, Neil, won Five [Quarterly]'s 2015 e-Chapbook Contest for Fiction. He runs the Central Florida-based reading series/chapbook publisher There Will Be Words and lives at iheartfailure.net.
male-pattern badness did you see me me take a picture of me walk on the beach to take
picture walking on the beach could reach 100 likes like male-pattern badness bring me the password
her church was music
and her gods dead rock stars
who she joined on an eternal tour
around the furthest reaches
of space and time,
I lied to my fourth therapist,
telling her all of my bogus
achievements while she jotted
them down on a pad in her lap,
hoping that she couldn't smell
the Schnapps on my breath
4x4ever everything I expected 2.5 bedroom gun rack smokestack tread for dread of poor handling known known unknowable star-spangled suspension of disbelief
I have gone astray,
thinking,
rambling
in an esoteric phrase,
lying to the government
about a loaded gun
between my legs.
The gift of childhood is imagination. In Sarah Frances Moran's poem, "Still Alive and Well" love and forgiveness are found in a friendship that withstand the challenges of life.
"Inside my body rests this adventurer.
I know it was birthed by you. The way fresh air
fills your lungs and how a campfire and a cold beer
can be like heaven.
Riding bikes down bayou banks
and tiptoe walking across railroad bridges.
We are wanderers. Romantic gypsies just a little
misunderstood."