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October 12, 2026 Poetry

Five Poems

Dizzy Turek

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my self, two seconds before this moment

I am going to kill a singular person

my death athlete, picked last
heaving like my pudgy buddy 

my double act, I loved him 
That is to say, tolerated him

a cliff or a raw wire hanger taking him out 
Out of the bright, airlines streak money above us 

chemicals turn us gay, this victim of mine
we’re in that sexless mirage, our blank oasis

he and I introducing each other at parties

“Oh yes, the flame is always alive
Tomb of the Known Soldiers, he and I” 

I watch him distantly on a sand stage
galloping in place, my double for a horse for glue

soon I’ll kill him but for now, I’m letting my self go
dancing, sort of erotic, over there, looking like an idiot

 

Ode to living with me (thanks for that :) )

Everyone is fucking me on the internet

It’s over now, that orgy, I’m dazed
Porny the birds sound, even the twigs jiggle 

Fleshlike, I have shower curtain eyes

Abject soil from the Planet of Me stains my useful items
Socks, bath basin, squished cushion, lip skin on glass

You really are the only one who doesn’t fuck me

You, living among the Forest of My Residue
for that I am grateful and resentful, sorry

Suspicion hangs off me, Stank of My Lily

 

cuck chair
        after Ye

This ring that I hold was a gift from my dad

It symbolized my gift to God, the repression
of every desire to touch another person

The cheap silver stained my finger sickgreen
It broke from me chewing too often on it

“You better bark like you want it” 

I’ve heard, recently, you should speak during the Act
person needs to know you haven’t gone mute

you haven’t fallen asleep or fallen into a coma
you still possess a conscious experience

I’ve never really given up on purity
I swear it’s going to work this time

God is a dog in reverse
a dog has God’s best intentions at heart

at heart, I am allowed to touch someone 
and remain untainted from their touch

 

Fanfiction

Jesus wept

on account of the joke I made

 

Latino guy with TERF bangs

Tiny white wisp infection all over 
the fun summer, I’ve been meaning truly 
to point out–going totally unaddressed. 

This is the law of my allergies, see
my sleeplessness, my unradiance, look,
my time on the bike, my crashing-watch-out!
-into-the-car-door, my time-off-the-bike, 
my on-again-off-again-on-again
off-again-on-again-off-again-onness. 

Oneness after all became our goal, just
right before the school year starts up here 
leading me to our dear muchacho, now
stop, no pointing, not with as much as one
glance or tap. 

                        Signals and signs, you whispered, 
once upon my earlobe, signals and signs. 

Your wisdom, yes, I keep it nestled on 
receipts I keep for meals I keep coming 
back to when they are a great deal over, 
I keep passing the buildings that had them.

 


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