#for: ample-lighting

[cushlamochree]

but here I am, Valero bathroom. who’s paid to keep these things cliche? in the neon headlight headspace that comes from 2 am highway lines, I’m trapped in tile and indie-movie aesthetic, a montage i could swear i’ve seen before— somewhere— i wonder who the set dresser is, who draped that toilet paper just so. who smudged that lipstick on the mirror? some other girl in some other cheap sequence. all i can smell is gasoline and crumpled dreams. there’s no paper towels. who’s paid to keep these things cliche?

T.M.T 

“but here I am/ Valero bathroom / who’s paid to keep these things cliche?” - Modern Baseball, "Mass"

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[cushlamochree]

zeugmas are my favorite figure of speech. two nouns are given the same verb, and they both work, or not. it’s tricky. i can’t explain what i mean. zeugmas take words and twist them up, testing your intelligence and your patience. my heart is learning to beat to an unfamiliar rhythm, and the only thing i know is art doesn’t have to rhyme. i’m going to take two words, resolve on a verb and my mind.

T.M.T

prompt: acrostic - “zanzibar”

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