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CALEB
BOUCHARD
x2

Lines Three, Five, and Seven Words Long

After Li Bai’s “Lines Three, Five, Seven Words Long”

Exploring subtext here.

Examining homegrown nightmares.

 

Morning infused with blue light

and pings. Please go away.

 

I want back the sinful, smelly world.

Melted popsicles, cum socks, gasoline, dog shit.

Lines Three, Five, and Seven Words Long

After Li Bai’s “Lines Three, Five, Seven Words Long”

Christmas mug coffee

doesn’t taste different.

 

I’m surrounded by tenderized sky,

gray, bloated. Ready for fire.

 

I’m not a deep thinker at all.

I live mostly in anxiety, fearful stupidity.

Caleb Bouchard is the author of The Satirist: Prose Poems, and 79 Nonets, available here and here. Find him on Instagram @calebbouchard. 

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