Evan Abandoned

I Love You, New York, Because


it's you I stick up raygunned, though you never duck. Bowie sang it's all young dudes who strut up truffles of flippant agony. All pocket mouthed, we money on or find a hoodied quick who does. Greased in tattooed hoorahs, we ride nicked cig silvers. Aflame in lag, watch em dragged flippety floppety dunce hatted. Some boys kissy kiss ok on credit but know nothing, really, about poetry. And sometimes there's snagged a brave pale to dollop in paired ribcage buzz. But not max. A chilly tremble milkshakes v-necked. Is it concrete, apple core, concrete all around? Or lisp gin my head? Brother New York, wake up David Bowie, bring him back to us, the dudes. Emblem battled is mine spuming eyes a-teary. Slack a rack to us glittered in poorer quarters, we want some, we want some. Hipsters on fire make me smile. New York, your sun is out, Statue-of-Liberty-poked.

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A Cautionary Tale


Sprigged and wrenching free fancied, Evan Abandoned larks a what/who pleasure dangle (face stretchers squawk this) some tangle a-wrapping bounce, tinsel bottlenecked scoliosis choices he shuts handy wooden wonder, trimmed in aluminum, and some no cheer policeman critters leggy fizzle slime struck another run-in tire slash traipse go figure in alabaster cig fits, Evan Abandoned cruds no capillary gab what front! one would think at milquetoast piquancy to shudder his highfaluting numb spook a poet in New York? I think he’s done for taut world showed up to tug him in pockets talking hoarse tip sticky sweet born ruined, he’s stuck gut ruined he basks in fits of saint augustine stutter storms, a gripe to grape fizz sunward tumescence lesser noted Evan Abandoned questions to legs spread up to neck curled in, well, chewy law denim panties, dark gale, smuttiness spins lavas springtime.


Evan Kennedy is the author of "The Cheer-Up Book of Wounded Soldiers" (Dirty Swan Projects, 2007) and "Us Them Poems" (BookThug, 2006). His work has appeared in "Tight," "Glosolalia," "Hot Whiskey," and Poetry Project's "The Recluse." He lives in Brooklyn.

He will be reading with :::the press gang::: at the *d.a. levy lives renegade small press series* sponsored by Boog City, at ACA Gallery in NYC, November 25th at 6pm.