by Tyler Barton
1__
I spring back
I am falling for
a bad bathroom excuse
I jackpine for seascape
I crackpot the bluest rose
I mohawk the leopard print
ripoffs of the avenue
I cross myself in my dream and
I goddamn a devilock
I bulldoze in doorways
I pull off the covers
I understand to be smashed
by waves
I muster I mustn’t
I tie a tie
I leave a leaf on the hall floor
I put a poptart down
I hitchup the canalway
creekbed
I speedboat back down aways
I dentaldam the rushing water
smiling
I pick it up hot
and juggle
I drivetrain my hands
to stop shaking
I so bruise the purple strip
under a lone duck’s wing
I am airing my hairball complaints
2__
I stress the body pedestrian
I heavylid my paycheck
I guardrail against the missing
government
I tear Squibbs lesson plan
in half
I carry uneven stacks of the Grapes of Wrath
I flask copies on to desks
I ask you not to throw it out the window
I fake like jumping out
a window
I birdchirp true
a real request
I need you to be the quietest class
I mean it for fifteen minutes
I leaffloat down the vertical hallway
I marinade you a gift from scratch
I leapfrog from room
to room
I ostracize I
I shoulderread your tweets
I acrostisize to speak in codes
for hour or sos
I code and decode the morality
of sick days
I loon in and out
3__
I stonesthrow away
a pizza kitchen coupon
I domino I’ll die one day
I megabus to states unknown
I am bananapeeling out
I meganslaw your name
your name
I duncecap his frosted tips
I sheepdog girls at the DDR
I deter
I defer
I denounce
I delice,
or delouse?
I unleash highbrow
analysis
I lamontagne my composure
somehow
I elbowcatch a sneeze a minute
I vamoose morosely
4__
I bittorrent a couch cushion
I am function
I fengshui
I centerline up to the fucking tunnel
I hardscrabble the wrong word
I reason I burn third degree
I wordwall my enemies in
I downdraft an ok fantasy
tennis team
I shotgunwed this spit to the street
I cabaret your bangs up off your face
I woodpeck your first kiss shallowness
I am shallowest