IAN SCHOULTZ / 4 POEMS
Bronze Age Collapse 1
/ unconstitute stage / direction stage / direction stage / direction a man is the / dead a man is the dead walk sequence / as wealthy as any / counter-of-culture can fill me / don’t tell me about your job / the event is not yet / any combination of particulate inaccuracy distilled / stage direction / more curdle fiction my image / i melt so well / grown myscreenname billing the mother tongue / grown into a fitting / consequence or cast member dwelling / can we address only those below / beholden to their own minister / for available roles
/ we collarbone the outer planets / we round the datalick / latent birth jell / any path of recognition / addressed you as the only blow horn / native matrix the sleepers / the rock pile / quiet mist around the aqueduct / not as beautiful a style / so can we / the many terrorblurb / why not wait and see a chance / on other people theory as theory / atmosphere blank yet fever like / any forever summary of wounds / it’s just map interpretation are you sure you want to quit / all applications / your skin your averages
/ some dudes admirable / stage direction for penitentiary case studies / true genius as the general performance / growth molt before we’re canceled / decided ourselves as ethical as / moods may contain egg / oil lampmelts / burning glow of / any head cast questions / please take them up / role into the most demographic / friends only / talk about your lively / acid trace wash any one counts as furniture may / engender less
/ am still your moneyman for the medical dictionary / am still the digestive session / mold bled into the stomach as consequence / am only available to edit / a breath
bronze age collapse 2
/ unload the desert wear / it is already lumped / found and founded / are mountains happy to be echo samples to flounder steeped orange oxidation / a big jello / we don’t want people going around and having illicit sequence / sequence church-proper use of protein supplements / list every corner you’ve every direction / on serving size / don’t talk to me about your job / history of taking up space / of the breeze hailing any / bobble bobble
/ challenge to sub the chuck in the engine / and what comes of it / a submenu a temple / dressing actually drown / the streets were / not the future special / not the future nibble of / rusted knobs / against inference / how much of this specimen / flights the level / trench ring of faces
/ where it helps to be a packaging container / where i want to receive all mail / provides so much in the future fleeing / the dull big leaked aberration / mocked only by ownership / can mine be want is leaking is lumping / reluctant list
/ footsteps never / so inkswept / keep a space for delivery / make a note in the provided skirt space / can we last so reaching the numbers grown pariah / lurching
/ dwelling towline the symbol set / who was the old city cabal / bad actor hung / the breeze washes me over here / closed to delivery / we want cuts from the astral plane some episode / how is / your expressed love for those you write to / move the beasts
bronze age collapse 3
/ and brother or sister can be / discerned fall on your blunt instrument / as much as you float / as much as you takes forever / read the article / luvved the emotional availability / cadre of heroic tears / gog magog / as bad as you feel / as bad as you / fade you are one too many / you have too even this out of / respect the people you hate / legion / welcome tables and contents the mausoleum / the suspension of and what else always more distributed
/ i’m supposed to describe the places / traveled and i swept the constellated points / petitio principia / say something good to me / i accuse oh you / example 1 is example 2 / which is one too / many and configured to burying / evolve evolve / and home the worst thing / i ever / annunciate / the micro-surgery annunciate / the kleptomania annunciate / costumed dial tone hey hey you you / where is it perched / plasticized as the one and of the many / plasticized child of many species / ogled and respected / counted the more the remarkable
/ enough of bird where and why the drowning / beached the bedding / where the invasion made / regional variants annunciate / can this sustain / conclusory / and in this late age / where you brother and you sister / initially neuroplastics / involved against the wave
/ interrogate that which / “my name is alpha etcetera” / interrogate that which impartially world-faced / interrogate the nurturer palatably within / the high jagged rock / “i’m about to tell” vastly the palace nearly
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Ian Schoultz recently finished his MFA in poetry at Louisiana State University. He was the poetry editor for 2017-2018 at New Delta Review. He takes his dog for long walks and usually remembers to lock the door. His work has appeared in Aberration Labyrinth.