FEATURING: Chelsey Minnis

Chelsey Minnis lives in Boulder, CO. Her most recent book, Bad Bad, was published by Fence Books.

This is a good thing to write…

Because it is a poem for money…


I have to write a poem with an indifference..

But it is a great indifference..


If this is a love poem then it is for you…



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Because it is a love poem…

It is a #13 love poem…


This is a dollar bill in a jar…


And a trap for your sweet forelimb!

I call out to someone to read this.




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This is soft work! It makes you weak…

If you want to write this you better write it like hype…



I like it like translucent leather…

And a gold tooth on a child…


And the dark wink of my mentor…





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This poem is a wish-killer…


It’s like trying to smash the two-way window…

And trying to get broke by writing…


This is like telling someone wearing a gorilla suit you don’t really love them...





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..............................................I am really dull with all the life in me..................


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  .........because it is so hy-

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  to be drunk..........................................................................................

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and chandeliers on the floors..........................................................

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 .......................like a paean..................................


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........like an ice cream truck song.............


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......................it is like          .......................twigs …are..  breaking...........right...........



..............behind you ...............................................      ..............................

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..... . . . . . . .    ..............all night long..     but...............

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.... it is.....


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....................................................................................the mongrel happiness that you can find.....


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............when it ................ 

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............................starts to go around you like a ride...........................................................


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go dark inside like a plummet................................................................................................................................

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...............I know it is.......................................................................................................................

.........................................................a glass of black dirt................................................ . . . . . . 

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but I am just getting drunk on it............




...............................because I like to get weak......................

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......................................................................I love it like chamois.........

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bursting open.... ranunculas............and........................ . . .  . . .

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smashing . . . . inside ..........



....................................... . . . . . .   ...............................................like a glass crotch.......................