three poems
by Scott C. Holstad
moonlight
the grass outside is
the color of gray
suicide and the
dew looks like
it was spermed
from the sky.
inside is blank. an
empty innocence.
her dreams are a
steely rumble in
her mind.
she thinks of
flowers. she
spreads her legs
and touches
herself. her
fingers are drills.
she hurts herself
momentarily
and she forgets.
flowers don’t
go to sleep,
they die.
*Originally published in defunct magazine A Taste for Flesh, 1999
national dance
zoned in a
deep dish
typhoid kickin
habit
lettin loose
medusa’s morals
senseless
keytolin
hip in a
drag
sort of way
blue
love
dog
lies dead at
the bottom
fuckin vergin
mary
of a gulch
we’re
anti
everything
pro
where
the
choices
now
it’s either/or
today is a
good day for
murder love hatred sex
violence drugs revisionist
attitudes anarchy of the
sense letters and the like
tea
time exists in
the MinD
snarling underground
day addiction
i
want
my entertainment
NOW
and
let’s eat
some more
that ain’t nothin jack
you shoulda
seen me
then
* Originally published in Kiosk: A Magazine of New Writing vol. 6, 1993 – SUNY Buffalo
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red grass blue blood greenish kl!matE waterz
pouring rained death mass tornadoed burials
parties of sordid executions no eyes of the SouL
anarchy of revulsion senses of the l o s t eyeD
black walled atriums chainlinkfencevirtues
aciding navel/pancreatitis/spurting penile/anusrectum/vaginalusesyesstilldesired
memories of laughing cumfest—they why fuck muther dAMMmm
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SvFfeR—whyy--???? M0n@the@KraTiK treNcheZ
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reaL1tee
fetid fetal stench aches vivisect agony throes
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BIO: Scott C. Holstad has authored 60+ books & has appeared in the Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Caffeine, Pacific Review, Santa Clara Review, Long Shot, Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Palo Alto Review, Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Gangan Verlag, Sivullinen, Premonitions, Flipside, Processed World, Bukowski & Serial Killers, Kerouac Connection, Experiment in Words, Ink Sweat & Tears, Misfit, Mad Swirl, Bristol Noir, The Beatnik Cowboy, PULP, WIREWORM, Synchronized Chaos, Blood Moon Rising, Word Riot, Horror Sleaze Trash & Cyber-Psychos AOD. He’s moved 35+ times & now lives near Gettysburg PA.