DEAD MAN, I HAVE SEEN YOUR FUTURE

 

if not the truth, then at least a lie worth believing

 

lost in the forest of blind prophets

 

                               http://www.packingtownreview.com/issues/22/sweet/lost.html

wanted to be lost, but it was too late for that

 

                   Lothlorien Poetry Journal: Five Poems by John Sweet

patience in and of itself and then despair

 

Everybody tries to tell you you're dead

 

WHY WOULD THE GOOD PEOPLE @ POETS & WRITERS LIE TO YOU?

 

the choice between walking and crawling

 

i remember the future because it all turned out wrong

 

https://www.amazon.com/remember-future-because-turned-wrong/dp/B0CQVCMPWX

following poets, fucking priests

 

THE CUNT SITS AT HIS DESK, AND HE'S PLOTTING AWAY

 

(with thanks to The Twilight Sad)

all the happy songs about fucking

 

NOTES FROM A CENTURY DESTROYED BEFORE IT EVER BEGAN

 

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NOWHERE; NOW; NEVER

 

STILL KICKING ASS AT RAVENNA PRESS

 

                                 

                    Human Cathedrals by John Sweet - Ravenna Press

we are naked, you and i, in beds of regret

 

https://publishing173825309.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/the-ggp-collective-summer-quarterly-available/

sister

 

in the neverending kingdom of failure

 

the 21st century, but what did you expect?

 

SCREAMING INTO THE VOID SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

 

in love with a lesser god

 

https://verbalart.in/sircl/ecopies/1723041342.pdf

the age of slaves, which is eternal

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1evBxvDbrjbfguTxf9u-XMVzV5HrKUSb4/view

and the present tense is history, of course, and the future is nothing worth remembering

 🧿https://phenomenalliterature.com/sircl/ecopies/1723018920.pdf

 

hope matters, but it doesn't save you

 

NEW WORK AT

HIDDEN PEAK PRESS

https://hiddenpeakpress.com/2024/07/08/john-sweet-traitor-poem/

 

 

https://hiddenpeakpress.com/2024/06/06/john-sweet-brief-history-kingdom-of-nil-poem/

the one where i tell you to fuck off and die

 

https://thebigwindowsreview.com/2024/07/12/john-sweet-poem-for-the-vast-distances-that-we-will-die-trying-to-cross/

in the mouth or up the ass

 

https://www.wingedpennyreview.com/issue-02

phantom hope

 

the sharpened teeth of christ buried deep in your throat

 

https://adelaidebooks.org/the-kingdom-of-absent-light

each letter laid down as big as the fist of god

 

             https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/messiah-by-john-sweet

there are better things to do on your knees than pray

 

                                                  https://anyflip.com/fypa/qtrn

angel of thirst vs. the angel of dust