FANZINE

 

from THANK YOU TERROR

 

We have no scars.
Born bird we
bet in blood.

Tubes run into me
but no tubes
run out of me.

This chaos in me,
would I could
dispel it. But it’s what

I have a necklace
could fit around,
one hiss to light.

Instead of a heart
I have a Nintendo.
And where others

have a Nintendo I have
a snake split in half
& turned inside out.

I was born there
& baptized in stone
the snake swallowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

from THANK YOU TERROR

 

There is no one
sitting beside you.
Then there is.

Is it normal
to become a child?

Should I set this candle
beneath the bed?

I don’t dare shut
the fifth window,
the zeros.

Rebuke the sea,
the red squiggly line
beneath the bone heap.

I said goodnight.
I meant night.

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_{Mathias Svalina is the author of four books, most recently Wastoid from Big Lucks Books. He is an editor for Octopus Books.}