P.U.L.P.

 

Great Price
—Poetry and Visuals by Smith, Cleveland, OH

Mom sez
doctor dropped me on my head after birth
perhaps to knock some sense into me
if so, it didn't work

She also sed I was circumcised
and yet I'm foreskinned
so what do I know

I do know life eats life to live
so we kill
consume the dead

And of course
at some point we're all food

 

 

 

Cloud Storage

 

Sharpen my stress edge
with coffee edge
then mellow in marijuana

 

 

 

 Say What

 

 

DO THESE BANDS STILL EXIST?

Pulp
Slow Pulp
High Pulp
Pulp No Pulp
Gorilla Pulp
Pulp Victim
Pulp Thirteenth
PULPS
PULP!
Pulp Fiction
Moody Pulp
Pulp Love
Rat Pulp
Extra Pulp
Pulp Bank
PULP K
Black Pulp
Pulp Friction
Pulp Citris
Pulp Dogs
White Pulp
Antinode Pulp
pulp fiktion
Nervous Pulp
Pulp Fusion
No Pulp
Heavy Pulp
P.U.L.P.
Pulp Free
Pulp Culture
Pulp Fever
Big Pulp
PULP 펄프
Pulp Cruz
Jora Pulp
NO.Pulp
With Pulp
Lil Pulp Slay
Them Pulp Criminals
The Pulps
Johny Pulp
Pulp Romance
Pleasant Pulp
Leftover Pulp
Pulp Kitchen
Banana Pulp
Pulp Disco
bully pulp-it
Pulp City Inn
Electric Light Pulp
Pontoon Pulp
John Pulp
Yung Pulp
Diams Pulp
PULP-ITO
Mr Pulp
Pulp V
Prospeqtor Pulp
Pulp Techno
Astro Pulp
PULP-D
Pulp Project
Phily Pulp
FACE PULP
Cultic Pulp
Pulp Phobia
Pulp Zacci
Pulp Vixen
Pinel Pulp
Dirty Pulp
PULP DICTION
Pulp Carlo
Some Pulp
Cosmic Pulp
Alvaro Pulp
Donnie Pulp
Pulp Forum
Pulp Tee
Pulp 45
DJ Pulp Free
OJ Some Pulp
Pulp Disco & the Outcasts
Dirty Pulp Gang
Pulp Grape Company
The Pulp And Paper
The Caramel Pulp
No Pulp (Do Not Use)

 

 

 

Skygauze

 

I stumble from last step
which stumbled from previous step
which stumbled before

 

 

 

Blue By You

 

 

Rock roller wanted
must supply own hill
be willing to fail 24/7

 

 

 

 Escape Orbit

 

 

DEATH IN FISH AND FIRE

1.

Bought six fish 15 days ago—
two tetra neons,
two red barbs,
two guppies.

One red barb is in the bottom corner
trying unsuccessfully to swim
dying from ick,
its companion hovering by its side.

Even fish care.

I feel dark
because my desire to protect
is useless
I'm as vulnerable as that red barb
I or my beloved
could be bitten by human ick
at any moment
and it's only luck or invisible design
we're here at all.

2.

Life as fuel for flame is true
for I have studied many a campfire
over long hours and many tokes,
and notice the first crime in fire
is to stand out,
be a splinter raised from the grain
and whooomp, you're gone.

3.

But then
no swim, no fire, no life.

4.

Life is death.

 

 

 

 Heaven

 

Death sneaks into your mind
looks around
rearranges the furniture

 

 

 

Rolling Koan

 

Dig a hole below zero
crawl in and wait
till the good gaze wins

 

 

 

 Passage

Today’s LittleNip:

Life is strange
stage after stage
no instruction manual

—Smith

___________________

—Medusa, with thanks to Mr. Smith (Steven B. Smith) for today’s fine poetry and visuals, including his phantasmagorical pulp-a-rama!

 

 

 

Strapped
—Photo by Smith

Third Thursdays at the Library happens
in Sacramento today at noon; 

there’s a workshop in
Cameron Park at 5:30pm; and
Iris Dunkle and Allegra Silberstein
will read in Davis at 7pm (plus open mic).
For info about these and other
upcoming poetry happenings in
Northern California and otherwheres,
click on
UPCOMING NORCAL EVENTS
(http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/p/wtf.html)
in the links at the top of this page.

Photos in this column can be enlarged by
clicking on them once, then clicking on the x
in the top right corner to come back to Medusa.

Would you like to be a SnakePal?
All you have to do is send poetry and/or
photos and artwork to
kathykieth@hotmail.com. We post
work from all over the world—including
that which was previously published—
and collaborations are welcome.
Just remember:
the snakes of Medusa are always hungry—
for poetry, of course!

 

LittleSnake’s Glimmer of Hope:
sign spinner
slacking in the shade
sucking on a cigarette~