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DEVIANT PROPULSION

DEVIANT PROPULSION

DEVIANT PROPULSION
by CAConrad

NOW AVAILABLE FROM
Soft Skull Press (2006)

below you'll find poems included
in the book, as well as links to
online journals where other poems
from the book are included

(contact info: CAConrad13@AOL.com)

the author gratefully acknowledges the editors
of the following magazines and anthologies,
where these poems first appeared:

AboutPoetry.com, Accent, American Writing, Amethyst, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Cave of the Heart Anthology, Chiron Review, crossXconnect, Exquisite Corpse, Iris, La Petite Zine, Lilliput Review, Mad Poets Review, Mirage, One Shot, Oyster Boy Review, Pearl, Poetry Broadside, Poetry Motel, POeP!, Pom Pom, Powhatten Review, Range, Real Poetik, Shrike, Thus Spake The Corspe:  An Exquisite Corspe Reader, Transcendental Visions

"Poetry IS
independent
media!"
--Frank Sherlock




i'm falling in love
aimlessly
it's nice

i think i won something
but i'm not sure

i always think
i'm winning things that
aren't there

Marwan fucks
me in the front
seat of his
taxi cab which
isn't easy in
Philadelphia while
making a turn onto
Benjamin Franklin
Parkway at 3 a.m.

it's Daylight
Savings Time i'm
angry i'm losing
an hour

he says "tomorrow is
April Fool's Day
ask me to do
something we'll
both enjoy"

i ask him
to back
his ass onto
the gear shift
until it feels
good and
he does




Deviant Propulsion

"to be mindlessly in flower
past understanding"
—Jonathan Williams


Robert Creeley cab
driver look
alike or maybe
because we
just left
City Lights
Bookstore

how many
Chinatown
ducks did
Kerouac eat?
a total?
okay, an
estimate

"i don't know"
Magdalena says
"but nothing's
better than a
pretty girl's
sphincter!"

Buddhist monk
on cell phone
i point
to hear
her mutter
"Postmodern" again

she won't
drive down
Bush Street
because of the
president not
the genitalia

"i want to
rub my titties
all over this
city!" she says

"me too!" i say
today's inner child
a sexy old whore

if he/she has
a cock i'll
ask him/her
for a dance
"but if there's
pussy down
there get
out of
my way!"
Magdalena roars

may the best
genitals win!

i'm a faggot
competing with
a dyke for a
piece of ass
someone mutter
"Postmodern" please

where'd you
first hear
your meat
curtain slang?
all those
vaginal
synonyms
hip for
Scrabble to
flip her
switch up

then she
drove to the
hotel of
her first
lesbian sex
only she
couldn't
find it
i mean the
hotel and
the traffic
cop made
us go
thru a
tunnel our
living
metaphor in
motion



POEMS FROM DEVIANT PROPULSION PUBLISHED ONLINE

from Lodestar Quarterly
from Poetry.com
from 2004 DC Poetry Anthology


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