Two poems
by: Anthony Miller
Trash Bag Spaceship
taught to love whales
and double bag milk jugs
villainize sharks
to foster dead reefs
You look for the rapture with your neck wrenched upward levitating toward the heavens on a stained magic carpet--growing with the garbage as it piles underfoot, stomping in the rot you dust your little spot spitting shine--wipe the belly of a stomach full of vomit
GLOBAL WARMING IS A
LIBERAL STUNT
you scream from your podium
to a room of empty heads
Tree Huggers Guide to the Galaxy
I heard a God fearing homeschool mom
accuse plastic bag ban advocates of being tree huggers
a thousand miles from the sargasso sea. Farther still
from making sense,
I couldn’t figure out if that meant she hated
oxygen or just isn’t fond of plants
throw a fuck you to the planet and curse people for swearing
abuse a daughter over a haircut and ignore her for a week, call it high ground--feeding grounds, forcing half-cooked beliefs in opposition of opposite ideas and call it Christianity--uphold a partial philosophy in the sand of its structure and drive in the spikes while the tide froths your feet
by: Anthony Miller
Trash Bag Spaceship
taught to love whales
and double bag milk jugs
villainize sharks
to foster dead reefs
You look for the rapture with your neck wrenched upward levitating toward the heavens on a stained magic carpet--growing with the garbage as it piles underfoot, stomping in the rot you dust your little spot spitting shine--wipe the belly of a stomach full of vomit
GLOBAL WARMING IS A
LIBERAL STUNT
you scream from your podium
to a room of empty heads
Tree Huggers Guide to the Galaxy
I heard a God fearing homeschool mom
accuse plastic bag ban advocates of being tree huggers
a thousand miles from the sargasso sea. Farther still
from making sense,
I couldn’t figure out if that meant she hated
oxygen or just isn’t fond of plants
throw a fuck you to the planet and curse people for swearing
abuse a daughter over a haircut and ignore her for a week, call it high ground--feeding grounds, forcing half-cooked beliefs in opposition of opposite ideas and call it Christianity--uphold a partial philosophy in the sand of its structure and drive in the spikes while the tide froths your feet