w/ one hand on the trigger and the other wrapped around yr cock

 

POP  THE

CULTURE

PILL

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDMZDr-nZsVCcIS0iAuLskhFJEqGyabl/view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

these lesser acts of joy

 

and the laughter, and that she is crying

 

Sometimes they just happen like this.

A longer piece at the always awesome

  

Rebelle Society

 

 

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2021/03/30/johnsweet-door/

 and

https://www.facebook.com/RebelleSociety

 

 

the pure stuff, right from the source

 

This one, I don’t give away.

 Support the small press, you blaggards!

 Ravenna Press kicks many asses, simultaneously.

 

 

 

 “John Sweet’s lean and muscular poetry causes a lot of excitement, evident by his long publications list and a series of earnest and diverse chapbooks. Human Cathedrals is his first major collection and Ravenna Press’ first book, what he describes as a tasty little full-length collection of angst and bile. It is better than that, with shades of melancholy mixed in with expressed vulnerability and the voice of a skilled poet who pulls no punches and obscures nothing.

 

This book selects a range of John’s strongest work and organizes it as an extended meditation—it is a great reading experience, immediately engaging and honest from page to page. Perfect-bound with a matte cover, it contains 80 pages of poetry in the consistent, unflinching Sweet voice.”

all the popular kids want one

 

Do yourself a favor.

I’ve seen it as low as $4 on Amazon. 

Who really knows what that’s about?

 

 

 

 

https://www.bookdepository.com/Dead-Man-Either-Way-John-Sweet/9781952411014?ref=grid-view&qid=1640131047114&sr=1-28

 

https://www.facebook.com/KungFuTreacheryPress/

 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-dead-man-either-way-john-sweet/1136852268;jsessionid=72F084155D3E6354225FA8864E3DB0D0.prodny_store02-atgap15?ean=9781952411014

 

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781952411014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

where a boy and a girl meet and touch and blow their minds

 

IN THE WASTELANDS, LATE

 

WHICHEVER WAY WE FALL

 

the episode in which nothing is revealed

 

Started up an Instagram account

a long time ago,

and then promptly forgot about it.

Recently remembered the password,

so now we're cookin' with fire.

Mostly an extension of

what gets posted here,

but in miniature:

faith.in.nothing

maybe not growing up at all

 

new at

SPILLWORDS

 

https://spillwords.com/in-the-torn-apart-years/

 

 

 

ONE FOR ALL YOU THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY MAJORS

 

"Earnest and diverse", goddammit!!

 

 

http://ravennapress.com/books/human-cathedrals/

 

 

John Sweet’s lean and muscular poetry causes a lot of excitement, evident by his long publications list and a series of earnest and diverse chapbooks. Human Cathedrals is his first major collection and Ravenna Press’ first book, what he describes as a tasty little full-length collection of angst and bile. It is better than that, with shades of melancholy mixed in with expressed vulnerability and the voice of a skilled poet who pulls no punches and obscures nothing.

This book selects a range of John’s strongest work and organizes it as an extended meditation—it is a great reading experience, immediately engaging and honest from page to page. Perfect-bound with a matte cover, it contains 80 pages of poetry in the consistent, unflinching Sweet voice.

 

 

 

 

sharpen your teeth and polish your eyes

Still the place for all of

your one-stop holiday shopping needs:

 

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bleedinghorse99

 

I’m non-denominational

as fuck.

 

 

or if it holds the breath of uneasy ghosts

 

Me, in a Christmas issue?

 I’m just as stunned as you, pal.

 

  

SUBTERRANEAN

BLUE

 

 

https://subterraneanbluepoetry.com/SubterraneanBluePoetry.CurrentIssue.html

 

 

nihilism for the beautiful people

 

It strikes me as I sit here in

the dead grey light of

upstate 5 p.m.

that I have several books

more or less exclusively

available through

Amazon,

and yet none of them are

#1 in sales.

 

And then I go to Amazon

to see exactly what is

rocking the world of

modern poetry there,

and it makes me die inside

just a little…..

 

In any event….

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/approximate-wilderness-John-Sweet/dp/1530954053

 

https://www.amazon.com/pagan-days-john-sweet/dp/1469987724

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bastard-Faith-John-Sweet/dp/1973919311

 

https://www.amazon.com/nation-assholes-guns-John-Sweet/dp/1519541341

 

https://www.amazon.com/Flag-Fire-Song-Hope/dp/109749165X

 

 

And, just between me and you,

one of these titles is so good,

the publisher didn’t even bother to

list it on their own page.

 

That’s gotta hurt.

 

 

 

THE FIRST OF YOUR LAST WARNINGS

 

MIDNIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL

MIDNIGHT TOMORROW.

 

A NEW E-CHAP

AVAILABLE FOR

A LIMITED TIME.

 

GOOD STUFF, TOO;

 

LOTS OF VERBS,

SOME TASTY ADJECTIVES,

CURSING,

RANDOM PUNCTUATION….

 

COLLECTION IS CALLED

 

Always One More Verse of the

Motherfucker Blues Left to Sing

 

AND WHY NOT?

  

https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-poetry-e-book-free/

 

 

 

A CASUAL ADMISSION OF GUILT

 

something to look forward to, besides pestilence and disease

 

December 1^st.

 

Mark it on your calendars.

 

The continuation of

almost 35 years of giving it

away for free.

 

Could I be a

nicer person?

 

No.

 

No,

I could not.

 

 

 

https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-poetry-e-book-free/

 

 

 

 

 

...and all the kids dancing to something by ezra pound

 

neither here nor there

 

Not necessarily

reinventing the wheel here,

but an accompanying assortment

of photos, short poems and

miscellanea of mine can be

found on instagram at

faith.in.nothing

 

There is the off chance that,

if you go there right now,

you might be the first person in

the history of the known universe

to actually view it.

 

Heady stuff.

 

I’m passing on twitter,

snapchat and tik tok, though,

and i shut down my facebook page

years ago.

 

But you know what I miss?

 

myspace.

 

Total shame it went off

the deep end.

 

 

 

 

on the day i was waiting to be buried next to my father

 

new work at

OUTSIDER

LITERATURE

 

https://outsiderliterature.com/post/668688780272746496/your-careless-face-by-john-sweet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...but not because your lies mean anything to me

 

flying all the time

 

IN THE DREAM, WE WERE DROWNING AND I DIDN'T KNOW YOUR NAME

 

[in the water of my dreams]

 

AFRAID OF THE FUTURE, SICK OF THE PAST

 

a broken mirror in an empty room

 

Back to ink on paper,

the best of the best,

but you can find a copy on the worldwide interweb

if you know where to look.......

the shit is coming; the shit is real

 

I’ve finally started tracking time like

a sentient human being again.

 

Got my manuscript in for this years

Poetry Super Highway

e-book free-for-all:

 

https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-poetry-e-book-free/ 

DEAD KINGS AND PRETTY THINGS

 

backwards to zero

 

THE

AUGUST 2021

 

VERSIFICATION

 

SOME PRETTY

HEADY STUFF.

 

https://www.versificationzine.com/august21

 

 

 

 

 

feed the cats bury the children kiss the wife good-bye

 

Cat-themed awesomeness at

 

ESCAPE

INTO

LIFE

 

https://www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/catober-2021/

 

 

 

 

the truth is history told by those who survive it

 

  

BLACK

POPPY

REVIEW

 

https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2021/10/dear-anyone-by-john-sweet.html

 

 

A MORE VIOLENT MACHINE FOR A DARKER FUTURE

 

and some of us grow wings, and none of us escape

 

A sound investment,

each and every one.