living like a wounded animal, which isn’t really the same thing as living

 

OTOLITHS

 

Always a pleasure

 

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2022/02/john-sweet.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SHIFT THE GROUND, CATERPILLAR MAN]

 

let your pain define you

 

the earth, dying beneath your feet

 

[in ugly times, an ugly mind]

 

blood followed by laughter,

torture by justifications and

what does it mean when

your lies sound like

prayers?

 

who do you fuck and

what does it cost when you

no longer separate love

from pain?

 

which god will you turn to

now that the only one

you know is dead?

all we have to fear is the food we eat and the air we breathe

 

the great experiment will

probably be

winding down soon.

 

100 mostly-ignored posts

feels about right

 

https://www.instagram.com/faith.in.nothing/

 

 

 

 

 

 

we are a bloodsoaked army of one, you and i

 

SCARS

PUBLICATIONS

 

inexplicably publishing me for

26 years, now

 

ya gotta do a little

navigating,

but eventually you’ll find the

JOHN SWEET

page.

 

2 new ones:

grey on grey

a breadcrumb trail through the palace of human frailty

 

 

http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers

 

 

 

 

 

the nothing from nothing that will come to define all of our lives

 

QUAIL BELLE

 

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-a-love-poem-from-the-upstate-desert-late-february-by-john-sweet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

born to die on the wrong coast

 

fuck god before he can fuck with you

 

IT’S STILL THERE.

 

YOU STILL

NEED IT.

 

https://www.lummoxpress.com/lc/product/the-century-of-dreaming-monsters/

 

 

 

 

 

you kill what you love, and you kill what you hate

 

LOCH

RAVEN

REVIEW

 

https://thelochravenreview.net/john-sweet-2/

 

 

 

 

 

throw the baby in the wishing well

 

a way to kill only the truly deserving

 

the bottom of someone else's blood-red sea

 

her sister says the only way out is down

 

an absolute honor to be in

THE SOUTH SHORE

REVIEW

 

https://southshorereview.ca/author/jsweet/

 

 

 

 

 

spent a long time trying to kiss your scars away