In 1983, Lawrence Gladeview was born to two proud and semi-doting parents. After two middle schools and losing his faith in catholic high school, he graduated from James Madison University, majoring in English and having spent only one night in jail. He is a Washington D.C. poet cohabiting with his fiance Rebecca Barkley. His poems have been featured in Word Catalyst Magazine, Gloom Cupboard Literary Magazine, and The Poet’s Haven Poetry Magazine. He blogs at http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com.
Four Poems (May 20, 2009. Issue 5.)
They Walk and Talk Among Us
citizens please listen
this concerns you.
an elephant is not
bigger than the moon.
a shortage of
mcnuggets
is not an emergency.
recheck your priorities
along with your waistline.
i hope your children
do not take after you.
i can’t believe someone
hasn’t choked you out yet.
how is this possible?
you must be good looking
cause it ain’t brains.
if not for
self discipline
i fear i would be
locked up
until my ass was like
throwing a pickle down
a hallway.
7 inch.
(Previously published in Gloom Cupboard #90)
track 01
throaty conviction vocals
track 02
scratch blood guitar
track 03
anorexic inked drums
track 04
do-it-yourself vinyl.
The Bojangles
ol buzzards bay
carbonated nectar
“can’t drink all day
if you don’t start
in the morning”
tongue to throat
imbibe the lust
relieve the
cotton mouth
after shower quickie
dirty me up
neck-suck
collar cover-up
domestic duties
tea time precedes
mall photophobia
lunchbox schizo shoppers
stand still saturday
goofball ambition
easter sunday eve
jesus would understand.
squeeze
pause:
fermented draft diplopia
lick lips
resume the cunt spelunking
postcoital petting
saturated scat sheets
nightmarish carnal knowledge
stick piss-
pseudocyesis
to do:
five c-notes
beretta
2 liter soda bottle
jackson pollock pop’s bedspread.