John Sweet
only when and always if
fading tan in october sunlight and
she says she's in love
says there are other ways to live but
she's tired of faceless men with
rusty daggers peeling back the
flesh to expose her heart
says she's tired of following poets,
of fucking priests,
and when she tells me i'll live forever
i believe her
when she smiles i begin to understand
how it might actually be accomplished
Bio
John Sweet, b. 1968, most of his life spent living in the strange wasteland of upstate New York. No use for dogma, ideologies or zealots. A believer in sunlight, and in the healing power of surrealism. Latest collection is THE CENTURY OF DREAMING MONSTERS (2014 Lummox Press).