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staged apache

wherefore should you stand in the plague of routine and let the curiosities of restaurants, movies, and fakeventures deprive you of your skin and blood that is bound to the flesh of earthly SOIL?


ifly?

idive?

ublind!


all within walls 

all a commodity, 


where's the vitamin FUCKING D?


and it's sick

it just makes me so sick


to travel and find

PRIVATE PROPER-TY


but I'm no exception

I too recess in a box of a/c


to be sure,

i went to the forest at fourteen

unseemly RVs therein


monstrosities by the trees, 

plugged into OUT-LETS


what the FUCK 

what the FUCK


and you went to Albequerque,

saw Mescalero frisk by the tularosa creek,

a staged Apache


why isn't anyone else taking a minute?


on the side of the road 

those hand-carved beads


a wonderous intricacy you thought surely

there must be something wrong 

in all of this


and i, in my half-starved insanity,

had this urge to capture them in sketch


my skin got weaved into them through the led, 

their stories


but i could not finish my led broke i was TORN

yes, i wanted to stay longer but i had to go farther


my father,

my father,

more gas-OLINE


still, in this unfinished sto-ry

i knew what you once were

and i felt what you could be


AT NIGHTS I CAN HEAR THEM SCREAM

and dawn i hear them sing


but I've forgotten which is 

which


i go solo

so i can write the stories

of the souls by the high roads, behind the dunes


you say I'm loco

but i just brought a banjo and became a white boho


i marked a date to go camping with them


but first I gotta go to REI

cause yk, it might be hot that day

and i needed rubber-soled flops anyway

wait in line

wait in line

the fluorescent lights above 


where was i again?

wait, let me just get on my insta-gram


ooo Tom Hollands the new Spider-Man!



©2024 by Azra Keskin. 

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