The Aqua Velvet Lounge!

Writer. Musician. Baltimore. Running shit at newwavepoetry. The Aqua Velvet Lounge by Steven Bryant Luce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at [email protected] Please feel free to tip at me and support the arts!

[stevenluce]

College Humor

Is living off the grid

Thinking about bear grylls

Survival shows in general

Weeping

Throughout the night

[markvomit]

[stevenluce]

My Pen Exploded

Drinking

Not drunk

My body humming

Along along

Something

And it was never

Important

[enchantedbook]

'The Wanderer ' by Alain - Fournier Illustrated by Edward Gorey, 1928.

[weepingwidar]

Ian Felice (American, 1982) - Birds of Chaos (2023)

[stevenluce]

Tim Allen

Amherst

Mean

Robert Frost

Anger

No flowers

Mean

Beatings

Loud radio

No knitting

No fabric

More mean

Guitars

No historic committee

Not-wine-alcohol

Not white, but yellow cheddar

Mall shoes

Thrift shops instead of vintage clothing

Houses that aren’t moderately haunted

Coeducation

NO deals

NO steals

Dan Akroyd

Sexual non disclosure

Julia Childs’s gravestone

A dildo you named Garrison Keillor

Cellulite

1,000 strawberry festivals

The word “Sowwee”

The fear of smells pregnant

Light jazz

Pinterest

Patronizing your husband for smoking weed in the shed

[stevenluce]

My gums feel numb

My ears are buzzing

Public transportation roaring

Some dude doing something

Weird soda

Weird health food soda in a can

Thrown at my face

Unopened

[timestampedjesus]

[holespoles]

Rokuro Taniuchi "Field Trip"

谷内六郎 「遠足」

[stevenluce]

Ivy League Kink

Cum guilt

Massachusetts

The absence of pain

Bondage

Friendly bondage

Asians

Control

Power

Thin faces driving Subarus

Weak wrists

Gargoyles

Bloodlines

Fruit by the foot

Algebra or something, I don’t know dude

Last names

High school student body presidents

Bob Dylan

New England Christmas

Motocross

[ad-wills]

"you attract what you fear"

AHHHHHH A RICH BENEFACTOR WHO WILL FUND ALL MY WEIRD CREATIVE ENDEAVOURS NOOOOOO STAY AWAYYYY

[ispybluesky]

[stevenluce]

Ow

Stop

Not

Nice

Mean

Vinegar

Things

Ow

And

Ow

Wait

No

No

Yeah

Ow

[purplelightblog]

[stevenluce]

Traveling

Looking for a home

Being made fun of by pizza poets

The same pizza poets telling me my pizza ain’t pizza

Girl

It’s pizza

[weepingwidar]

Ian Felice (American, 1982) - Road to America (2017)

[harrowclare]

"This was my evidence that while my mind had been shrivling in anxiety, my heart had been busy, thankful to have been given a chance. I saw the part of me that insisted on surviving."

— Chanel Miller, Know My Name