#buck downs

[juliens-bakery]

Buck Downs, @thesomethingfornothing on instagram, via @poetryisnotaluxury

[darksister92]

[summergimurne]

Buck Downs

[theunrememberedgate]

Buck Downs, via poetryisnotaluxury

[bibliomancyoracle]

wouldn’t you rather

be demolished by love                        

than divided                        

against yourself

even the shortest day of the year      

can get pretty fucking long

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from “by the time I reach las vegas” by Buck Downs

[bibliomancyoracle]

I don’t have to demonstrate      

these spooky prophetic

powers of mine – you just watch out

*

from “by the time I reach las vegas” by Buck Downs

[tracydimond]

Buck Downs on my fridge and on the page right now. buckdowns.com

[davisandedgareditors]

grown youth

Buck Downs

the real kids aren’t doing hardcore bands anymore —

a little too music‐ in‐the‐schools, truth be told —

starting your own business is what they do these days — business plans, product plans, P&Ls —

working for social change one quarter at a time —

build a house raise a kid retire rich at 40 — that’s hardcore.

Buck Downs’s most recent collection of poems is Tachycardia (Edge).

Ladowich Magazine is available in the Apple Newsstand — https://t.co/bhbBwDr0F9 — offering just enough poetry and one longread a month. The poem published here appears in the May issue.