"Random access" & "Disintegration Loops"

Two poems; a guest contribution by Graham George

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Random access

Life bubbles,

out of the head sometimes.

when can get to be too much but!

just pick him up again,

hang whose what?

-s on the wall

why (surrogates

for the (past

decade—cabinets

)phone forever ringing where and,

and,

Samuel that you? How nice

Disintegration Loops

It’s you, come in.

You’re back from

Where Now? oh Good,

good. Do you know

where my car battery went?

– c’mere boy – there.

y’know I’d rather you say

“fuck” than “Jesus Christ.”

Drive safe, now.

oh, you now? come

back from there.

– c’mere boy – I’d

rather you were

my car battery.

now Where in you is

Jesus Christ, boy? there.

y’know. Do you know, now?

good income. there, there.

I’d rather drive and Drive back

Where now? back – c’mere

do you know “Jesus Christ.”

Oh good, Good. There, now.

Good boy Jesus, my car battery. Drive

back from there in – y’know – I’d rather you

drive safe. There. and now you know.

C’mere now. You, boy, you’re my Christ, I’d say.

you come in, back from from where my car battery went, y’know, there, safe.

I’d rather drive from now to where to – oh. C’mere, boy. Oh-my-jesus.

say, is it you? there. You drive my boy from there to — Where now? ohchrist.

oh boy you (no) c’mere do you know you’re

y’ know. y’ y’know,it’s– i’d come back from there

if you’re safe. oh battery a car battery where my boy went.

C’mere now.

it’s You? come in, oh–

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Graham is a writer and musician interested in persons, places, and things. He is a second-year undergraduate student at University of Missouri. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPIC literary magazine, fifth wheel press, and Die Leere Mitte. He loves everything and everyone, but he loves his parents and his dog first and foremost.