Impact Poems

7/29/2019 Impact Poems

1/42

IMPACT POEMS

manuel arturo abreu

march 2013


2/42

cut down

by a blade

of grass


3/42

Basquiat

sightreading

rainbows


4/42

&

Aram Saroyan

was right aboutlight


5/42

all ticking

is the same

but around

the worldclocks will

still argue


6/42

QUICK

LIKEDIRT


7/42

haunted

food


8/42

at dusk a streetlight

bends toward another

to kiss it in the drizzle

from this frugal itchyroom the wind sounds

like long vowels


9/42

read this poem

quickly

or it will curdle


10/42

socks

hungfrom

baretrees


11/42

nape andnuque are

synonyms

but ill neveruse nuque

in a poem


12/42

Chekhovs gunis in this room

the bullets are

in another


13/42

Recession

Christmas:Santa

opens

fire


14/42

THEY

HADBRIGHT

PINK

CHEERS


15/42

thicketof

railroads


16/42

everything

isatrophy

or

tautology


17/42

bulletsknifingthrough

air


18/42

srslynature

istoo bleak


19/42

THEBEATLE

SUCK


20/42

Damn,

it's darkerin here

than a deadbattery


21/42

not the moons

stolen light but

its stolenshadow


22/42

this womandumped an

ocean into me

&ive never seen

the Oscars


23/42

i saw a guy

die cause he

ate a slice of

pizza with a rawegg on it.

damn"


24/42

who

is

minimalism

for


25/42

the sharpstream of air

that escapesthrough your

front teeth when

you say fuck


26/42

my belly

rolls are

sloshing


27/42

&

103,000

filaments

rained from theshimmering

sky


28/42

TOP 100REPTILIAN

SHAPESHIFTERS

Vote for yourfavorite


29/42

ADVERBSTO

LIVEBY


30/42

alloppressed

people havea right to

violence.


31/42

TWEET

PRAY LOVE


32/42

pay moreattention &

notice

the beauty of

being wrong


33/42

rain falls

longin sheets. toknow is to

have a body


34/42

the source

of all gods and

their forgottennames


35/42

struck by

the harp

of a wind

in an alley


36/42

lol,economics

as

meta-

violence


37/42

Three people with thesame names all considerthemselves corporateBuddhas.

The police set up bait carsto catch these thieves and

there are other methodsfor others like them.


38/42

words

likeflaxen


39/42

Language is

transparent.

Point and click.


40/42

The sun

H, He, O,

C, Fe, Ne,

N, Si, Mg, S


41/42

I WANNA DATE THE

FUCK OUTTA U


42/42

what are thenames of

those fighting

cartoon

chipmunks?

Impact Poems

Documents

Transcript of Impact Poems