On December 16, 2009, I read at Velvet Guerilla Cabaret, Michael Slobotzky’s reading at Unurban Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, CA. I read four pieces: “I wonder how Baltimore is…”, “Davi come on!…”, “The hate in the mirror is bait…” and “Broken arm summer…” Please visit www.adambresson.org for more poetry and writing. Hope you enjoy!
Also tagged baltimore, body, poetry, self, texas, videoThe measure of a man is if he can & if he can’t he’ll fall
Watching him go through the freefall brought back my memories
Of drinking too much, falling asleep in a park on the grass & cursing her name
All the while the dull, delicate ache of constant uncertainty
Gets under the fingernails like topsoil, blackening & [...]
138 day countdown until St. Patty’s day
This Irish dance with your 8 birthdays
All the years of leftover Irish heartache
Sad eyes, this Irish bear, your half heart
And your wish for sullen eyes sunken down
Demon red in the head & bloodied
Sitting cowardly & fearful
It’s an ugly sad sound this winter
Whole hearted & wild
Left cavalier in its distance [...]
You do not have to worry, I am maintaining radio silence
Those serrated plastic knobs spun right-to-left with sun-shaped fake press-on wood
Have been turned down to the infinite nothing of zero
There isn’t anything but the sonic pulse that tells you nothing is coming through
I’ve erased your cellphone number although I can still recall it by heart
Every [...]
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