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2 POEMS Juliet Cook and Darryl Shupe
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EVERYBODY IS A LOSER HERE! Step right up, don't be shy, In this dartboard trailer, Everybody wins a prize at this model trailer. It's hard to leave when you have a dart From a mental gyroscope to a human gyro
__ SUGAR WATER AND GREASE FIRE Spiraling down doom ribbons A whip of cotton candy Broken teeth and collapsing eyes The Italian sausage sandwich is holding lands on a baby model
__ Juliet Cook and Darryl Shupe's poetic collaboration was unexpectedly inspired by Juliet having a hissy fit about Darryl's use of the word nasty to describe being drooled on by a sheep at a county fair, because she felt like nasty was an overused word. Instead of staying annoyed, she used his sentence to start a poem, which ended up resulting in eighteen collaborative poems that fuse nasty animal/human hybridization with other disturbing elements of existence. Fifteen other of those poems appear inside a chapbook entitled Short Poems of Violence and Chickens, published by Blood Pudding Press in October 2022 and [available for your perusal] |