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Skovy Patton
Skovy Patton graduated from Full Sail with a degree in Audio Recording. He runs sound at the annual Newport Fest in Newport, VA and is singer and guitarist for Charlotte, NC based band Innerbound. He has had two short stories and a poem published in
Lumina, a literary magazine in VA.
Plate Full of Self Madness
“Bluntly,” said he
with a rock jammed
between his teeth.
His grisly chin made
faces as he uttered
the silent words.
They slobbered down his lip
onto the drizzly cream plate
into a pool of bubbling noise.
His fist came down,
shattering the plate into shards
of white splintering into his hand
and across the table, to
the floor.
The noise splattered at the wall,
dripping down to the wooden
floorboards and rest there until
tramped on by his bare feet,
and drops of blood trailed along
behind him.
Elevator
Had I rode the elevator up
up, you say, to be above
to look down, above.
And continue to look down,
to where the crickets
incessantly bang their cymbals
like a drunk yelling,
a yelling drunk at night.
Where the elevator had taken me
was not high enough
for the elevator, as the
crickets kept banging their cymbals.
Conversations in a Bar
living in jumping pools
cuts and scars that don't bleed anymore
get off the floor! Get off the floor!
it's not the wall
there's no door to exit that way
i don't believe you one bit
shut up
take your crooked pointy finger with you
cars cars cars cars cars
and coffee
add beer shake well
serve blithely
laugh at the impunities.
ha ha HA! i've impounded your cigarettes!
not mine you bastard, you smoked your own!
dip them in glass, they're harder to light
walk, bitch, walk
sometimes when i drink there's three of you.
Conversation is difficult.
Zero
Zero didn't care
never held energy
always sat alone
thunder in the distance
lightning collapsed a line
blue white crack in space.
Zero hated substance
water's getting thicker
temperature is dropping
little liquid falling
indifferent crystal splashes
stinging Zero's face.
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