“This Poem is Not a Dark Matter Weapon”
1- Rudy
Everyone in the entirety of the cosmos
is Timothy McVeigh
"No way", you say
"Weigh?", says Padme
Waaaaay, says Bill from
Bill & T
ed
Kaczynski's excellent
adventure
The way of things, is dark and vanta-dark,
a hardon, a dark-on
archon
on a dark and stormy night...
Conor
There’s a highscore in heaven
for how many people you took with you
because everyone goes there
so it’s considered rude to show up alone
by the manners of angels
Since everyone goes there
without a choice
you can meet many famous people
like T
ed Kaczynski,
Timothy McVeigh,
and Stephen Paddock
who you might remember are only famous
for how many people they brought up
But there’s a man
in the Yucatan
who doesn’t want to go
I’d tell you more about him
but that’s cheating
and I can promise you
if you try to make him your date
to the stars
you’re gonna have some problems
starting with me
and ending with
all the order of
creation
Because there must be
an exception, and
it’s not gonna be you
2 - Noam
I don't want to be too forward
But my boyfriend is going to beat
the Shit out of you
He's a bad dude (AAAAAAAAH)
The first time I met him he was polishing
His assertion of rifles which
Language fails me they were very
Numinous and like lightning
Last time I saw him he was in
His cabin and he heard
The things you were saying about me online
My boyfriend could beat up your boyfriend
If you had one
Mine is the stars and the asteroid in
The Yucatan
And when we are older he will belong
T
o an esteemed gentlemen's association
Which I will only be allowed to enter
Through the servants' door (it's
Traditional)
But right now we are happy
I am a little like a caterpillar
Remixing itself
And I will be able to imagine a better
Future should I get better at doing
Proportions in art class
But right now, it's just us
Me, you, and his collection of barking dogs
Christian
And we’re happy to see you
And we wish you well
But soon enough it’ll be over
Y
ou’ll be beaten the shit out of
And you will owe me, so
3 - Mir
buy me a car pre-crashed
send all your porn pre-hashed
every borehole, you crook of lanolin, 14 digit phone number to an occupational park
its technological development in the 21st century (have you heard?)
a benchtop costs us what eight 'kay?
if i get better at climbing fences send me a postmarked litany
dishes
plasticine
fix the front window
do you want to try hooking something up to the oscilloscope this weekend?
Aaron
Insertion of objects of a magical order
within my personal life?
Y
es.
Y
es.
YES!
–that a sensational breakthrough
in dirigible design was achieved
a sigil outlined in brown crayon
–an avid balloonist
a rigid, aluminum girdered
external skeleton
subsumed
4 - Rura
het-chrome wyvern blew fire backwards
her special move for Eat
palmful of chalk alterers
powdered from crushed sea lords
a man named Weapon yelped
into particles/body
yanked by a dumb wind
a claw pushed his thinned body
bent like a trapdoor
Daphne
Nephilim seed spewed into nightseye catspaw
Swiped, sliced, flung into prehistory
Becoming bird-bodied, crumpled like brittle metal
Night, over night, over night
No Weapon formed against will prosper
In the wurmspaw grip,
Backwards, tumbling forwards
Into the nightslight
5 - tetra
Oh what evil and terror
the pigeon delivers her message
and the fair lady cries,
i
n
t
o
t
h
e
n
i
g
h
t
.
I have loved you
I
h
a
v
e
l
o
v
e
d
y
o
u
and betrayed you.
I admit my Judas,
my Brutus
driving!
driving through the night!
uncompiling the victim's bodies
sketching out the fate
stretching memory
in that sharp tone
in that s
h
a
r
p
tone
remembering the end of things
crying into the eternal night.