Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 11/10/21

Accusing Wattage unrealized



Coastal obscenities blameless

recorded after testing bombs

                    shattered my toe

                    to the delight of

                    gopher paratroopers

 

How after flipping

            stripping

                        a blimp

kicked                         like

            a can of seedling

wrapping paper

 

I cut teeth braggadocio

through B&W filthy groceries

                                    shopping

                                    cart

                                    fountain

                        one PENNY

                            2 pennies     3

pennies inside/outside/

                                    dusted

                        trophy lighthouse

                        promissory

                                          NOTE

 

cappuccino absurdity

entwined in blips





Spinning in fashion chug choking plenty



If you missed the hip

            to shoulder hugging

                        devilled eggs

                        rotted / spotted /

            covered in carved

hamburger invisibility cloak

 

            Then you dropped bowels

            moving on freeway

                        resolved to toe jam

            footing the bill

                        until pills of

                        extravagance

                        instigate

                        castrated

                                    trash

 

Tho you squeeze crowning

wart grains of wheat

at least until

forgetting an

                        ANVIL

            squished as

many               collapsed

            VEINS as any troll

could sooth to

            cannibalize.



Nearsighted orangutan



Comedy that moans

                        in offensive glee

            b/c                   your

jelly belly Christmas

suicide appeared

as a suffocation

                        in my

            newsfeed

until pajamas

knew enough to

            engineer

a building

collapse crepuscular

moose song.

©2021 Joshua Martin All rights reserved.

Joshua Martin

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in M58, Punk Noir Magazine, Beir Bua, Scud, RIC Journal, Ink Pantry, Streetcake, The Collidescope, SORTES, Prolit, E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, and Fixator Press among others joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 03/13/19

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Hobo Jesus & The Mad Hatter

thrown out
into the street
beaten to a pulp
they didn’t call the cops
in Old Orleans

let go
once or twice
by King Cake Law

the Mad Hatter
sings the blues
making deals
with black cats
in copper suits
robbing from Peter
to pay Paul

is that what this
has all come to?

slander campaigns
and random diseases

the artist
formally known
as

Emanon Yesac

John Jacob
Jingleheimer Schmidt

whatever the hell it was

I think I owe him
20 bucks
but he’s shit out of luck
because I gave it to
Hobo Jesus
that sleeps in the park

he needs it more
than we do
anyway

and someone
had to be crucified

right?

well, fuck you, man
if the shoe fits
wear it

©J.D.C.IV 2019

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James D. Casey IV is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, founder and editor-in-chief of Cajun Mutt Press, and extensively published by small press venues and literary magazines internationally. He is a southern poet with roots in Louisiana & Mississippi, currently residing in Illinois with his Beautiful Muse, their retarded dog, and two black cats.

Links to his books can be found here:

Amazon Author Central, J.D.C.IV