Garbage Notes
Franco Amatifrom the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes
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when you have it
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choose to look at it
like it’s something you’ll someday miss…
stuff that annoys you
things that set your teeth on edge
the stupid things that bother you now
will be the vanished parts you long for soon...
war with yourself
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to be hungry
is to be at war with yourself,
to be at war with the very ground you walk on…
but what if the ground you walk on
isn’t even earth at all, but some phony tile
or some cheap mass-produced car...
what you're taught might destroy you
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certain things can’t be taught
but can be stunted by other things…
I learned to draw as a child — faces,
silly horses, landscapes, you name it…
now my artistic prowess is limited
to erratic and hyper-abs...
the second best time is now
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the best time was twenty years ago
the second best time is now
don’t think yourself out of it
start that shit today
it’s not too late
if you are here
and you’re breathing
and you’ve got a little...
something real to work with
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he said, the voice is distinct and consistent
but the thinking process and perspective
is strange and off-putting
and none of this shit comes to any
kind of satisfying resolution
by the end I simply w...
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Franco Amati is a speculative fiction writer and poet from New York. You can learn all about him at francoamatiwrites.com
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