Posts Tagged: Ben Purkert
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A Poem By Ben Purkert

| March 1st, 2013

Brought To You By

take Coke Zero my white Apple charger this Old Grand-dad logo with its hair line     sunken eyes hey & give hot potato skins a whirl     they're good lunch conversation but just skins in the end & you can only dance so long around something     till it dissolves in Zero most likely yes you'll be sipping on     a glass if you want ice please call for rocks     please sit back & that glow off the TV is kinda making you famous it's honestly making your head     overshadow the far wall & everyone knows today's celebrities are only caught dead in Italian labels     they wear their faces so loose in full sun Ben Purkert’s poems [...]

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A Poem By Ben Purkert

| June 28th, 2012

U-Haul & the Dream of Arrows

a little pink lemonade in the nick of my thumb, a little radio static ringing in my lungs & each lung works like a cut-out since the body can't be everywhere, can't be all things to all mirrors & with my windows down I'll pretend this isn’t a U-Haul but a huge-ass space bot bearing me in its gaping mouth & the two of us could throw around ideas for miles, we could blow by a million signs lit up, high in the sky with arrows pointing down & I think maybe that's what sky is, just a whole mess of extremely sharp ends [...]