Written by Brady Stiff
I’ve got good art
in my mind, pristine
like a diamond kingly
dreamy, specifically.
The kind of poetry that raises cities
and razes the dead, and raises the dead and
razes cities. I stab at it
with a lead knife, shoot with an ink gun
“sadist, mutilator, murderer, masochist”
pulverize perfection with pen on the page
burden beautiful thoughts with ugly existence.
Somewhere between my heart, my head,
my neck, my nape, my trap, my shoulder,
my bicep, my wrist, my finger, my pen, my page
my fear and jealousy and the vice of being known becomes
bad art
My words don’t alliterate
or alleviate or minister or
administer or wake or
bake or rock or
roll or rhyme or
reason or give or
take or accept or
except, sometimes they do.
The more I write
on the page, the more I speak
on the stage, the more I begin
to say the same two words again again I say: say them with me
bad art.
I hope you hate this poem.
I hope you’re home with your honey, your babe
your money, your cousin
and tell about my mish-mash, unwashed words
splattered carelessly into the air.
Then you will have known
bad art.
Text © Brady Stiff
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