Back Room Live!

The first 4 parts of [the] Robin's Poem are published over at Back Room Live as part of a series curated by Sara Mumolo (she also curates the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland), along with work by Mumolo herself and Sharon Zetter and Ben Prickett.

The same poems are also excerpted at the blog CALLING CARDS: international calling cards online.

"Down by the river / I shot my baby dead."

HELP A SISTER OUT!

Jennifer Garcia (a fantastic and talented poet) is selling her fucking amazing chapbook THE SHIELD OF MEDICATION, based LOOSELY on the life and times of Marie Osmond, for $6.50






ALSO. It's never too late to trade me something (like other books, or cool stuff, or money) for a copy of Prithee (Abraham Lincoln Press, 2009), a series of collaborated COWBOY AND GHOST poems with Jess Rowan (firefighter extraordinaire!).

email me alexsmalix@gmail.com

Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan

For Bryan Coffelt & Phil Spector's ashen ghost

=fucking stupid=

1. Man, fuck that.

2. Organic foods need to chill the fuck out!

3. The desire has creeped upon Los Angeles like a wedgie at a water park

4. When Phil Spector was stuffed into a prison cell to serve 19 ... Nope, she married Phil for *love*. Gag me with a fucking crimping iron.

5. Are you comparing Phil Spector to the Holocaust?

6. A bad hair day in prison.

7. fuck a duck has a reputation beyond repute.

8. u listen to britney spears, hells yeah, man fuck that.

9. u like olives(the food), hells yeah

10. Just watched a spider try to fuck an ant, and he said, "if you're gonna kill me, kill me. But don't fuck with me ears. I need 'em."

Black Poem #2

a panda is a bear
or
Physics for Kitty


'Science was Wrong!'
because I am heavy bored

his death made us sit still
until our eyes hung out
at work
with my two
floral guys

he does only die later / in the mud / and the sea

they stand out
often the lone white face in a black crowd
a result of a genetic condition
muzzles on their eyes

I make a call to stomping
literally translated 'cat-foot black-and-white'
an owl is a cat-faced eagle / a crow is a black duck

'what a desperate creature panda is or no, / not panda'
After all / the sky flashes / the great sea yearns

the voice in Henry's head
is broken syntax
and broadly moves
the entire body