Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (Part 5)

Tish and Adam Turl October 5, 2023

Being able to Google search your own mind sometimes leads to getting trapped inside it, stuck in a loop controlled by the neurochip company.

Burnt Offerings

Adam Ray Adkins October 5, 2023

After a few cycles, the clicking ceases / The diagnosis / Determines what a disease is / Until you die, gnosis ----------- is only a thesis

If Venus Were the Moon

Leslie Lea October 5, 2023

If Venus were the moon / your voice would still / smell like gunpowder

High Up on the Hill

Mike Linaweaver October 5, 2023

there’ll be snow on the tombstones, / snow and something else / soon enough

Funeral Oration

Ahmad Shamlou October 5, 2023

And these, / throwers of caution to wind / are guardians of fire; / the living; / marching shoulder to shoulder with death, / ahead of death, / still living even after with death. / And forever with the name / with which they lived. / Since decay / passes beneath the tall horizon of their memory, / hunched and shamefaced.

The Wars Beneath

Mike Linaweaver October 5, 2023

the wars that bind your plowshares to the capital of others /the wars that take you / the wars that break you / the wars that make you/ a little bit less / a little bit at a time

A Million Miles

Mike Linaweaver October 5, 2023

I see it in the folds of your hyacinth mouth / I hear it in the splintered syllables of your culling tongue / I’ll carry you with rough hands / across the waters / into nothing

Thus Feet Firmly Planted on the Earth

Ahmad Shamlou October 5, 2023

Ungrateful of their blessing, They were. / And the hands insulted, humanity they cursed. / Since their rightful place, was not crossed on chest, / in bowed servitude. / … And the fall began.

Artists for Mutually Assured Destruction

Alexander Billet October 5, 2023

Here’s a shit in Warsaw, / flying the Polish flag, / the German in Bonn. / In Lyon the Tricolor / sticks up from the dump.

Someday Massacre

Mike Linaweaver October 5, 2023

I’m almost positive that / I’m dying. / Don’t laugh. It’s not a joke. / I haven’t told my wife yet / and I expect, / at your age, / you should be able to keep a secret.