Spasticsnap

I'm an author, artist, poet, and comics-maker. I turn secrets into great roving beasts. Author of The Dog Next Door and Other Disturbances (now available at Amazon.com). Follow me on Twitter @spasticsnap

[spasticsnap]

writing a story like

lighting a cigarette

a point of interest in the dark drawing an eye that goes out

[spasticsnap]

10/23/18

gray day black cat brown coffee

[spasticsnap]

I am the moon

every moment of my life is a phase

my changeability

does not negate

my power.

[spasticsnap]

delight

when u write follow de light

[spasticsnap]

Tried to Write

I tried to write rollercoasters

but all I have in me

is carousels today.

[spasticsnap]

birdcall

I’d been spotted like a bird then I remembered they call us that, sometimes

birds

and birds are just knives in the air

[spasticsnap]

the peach skin

days

licking the back of the peach skin

[spasticsnap]

true crime

something is eating ladybugs and wrapping the corpses up neat

something moved into the strawberry and left white webbing in the wound

something is burrowing in

[spasticsnap]

bonsai ppl

so many grow like bonsai wanting someone else to shape them

[spasticsnap]

lil blessing

and god bless the construction work that drowns out the lyrics sung by my neighbor which keep sneaking into this essay due tomorrow

[spasticsnap]

copper top

people rubbing my copper hair as if it were a lucky penny and they could pinch a piece off or watch me tarnish

[spasticsnap]

forever

I don’t want this moment to last forever I want to go home and take these shoes off

[spasticsnap]

freelance

your eyes sparkle when you ask what it’s like

bitch jump the fence

or pay me.

[spasticsnap]

the redistributor of love

the redistributor of love is loving all the difficult things for us

third place winners, death, old age and us, of course

[spasticsnap]

no thanks

take your glasses off, you say and let my admiration guide you off this steep cliff

[spasticsnap]

the pleasure-knives

here we have our pleasure-knives the ones we buy to take delight in balanced like we never were sleek + sharp + always sure

[spasticsnap]

writuals

drink black coffee for strong, honest nonfiction add cream for every pretty lie eat a banana to channel the gods of comedy ask a neighbor to add a secret ingredient to your tea when writing mysteries the goddess of science fiction likes weird smoothies eat a rose petal to flirt with the muse of romance drama needs more coffee and cream melodrama: a banana drenched in coffee