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.

asks (what kind of fag writes poetry?)

 

PIKER   PRESS

REDUX

 

 

http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=8523

 

 

 

 

 

even here there is still the idea of there

 

BLACK

COFFEE

REVIEW

 

 

https://www.blackcoffeereview.com/fall-2021/poem-while-waiting-for-the-diagnosis-by-john-sweet

 

 

 

and then you get older, and then you get old

 PIKER PRESS

 

http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=8520

 

 

and we thought about offering christ a blindfold

 

This one I read for you.

 

What more do you want?

AGAPANTHUS

 

https://www.agapanthuscollective.com/mirage/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the drowning boy trapped beneath the river's surface

 

say it with me…….

 

SHABDAAWEG

 

 

https://shabd.aaweg.com/poems/john/a-confession-for-the-queen-of-open-wounds/

 

 

 

 

AND ALL OF US BORN TO DIE ALONE

 

THIS IS NOT THE ROOM, WE ARE NOT THE GODS

 

WE ARE ALWAYS DROWNING ON SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEA OF DRY LAND

 

HAVE WE BEEN BORN TO FOLLOW?

 

ENOUGH JUST AIN'T ENOUGH FOR YOUR CRIPPLED SOUL

 

[I ALMOST FORGOT I WAS MADE OUT OF SKIN]