five poems
by Rebecca Warlick
Nanny berry
Your head smells like cheese
Your smile is crooked
Your room is purple
Your eyes are slate gray
Your race is Caucasian
Your middle name is a fruit and a song by Lana del Rey
Your first song was ramparts by John Frusciante
You love the hair dryer
You hate getting a bath
You drink too fast and hiccup constantly
Your head was too big so we got you an ultrasound that cost 900 dollars
your brain is unremarkable
Creative headache
My baby turned into
a pile of mismatched socks
I'm releasing Lemonade soon
2 good 4 this 1 day
The next time you see me
it’ll be in a magazine
The next time we don’t talk
it will be me on the PA
telling you specifically
to step away from the doors
Available tonight
Hi, she looks stunning
like a pretty little dentist
Ol Clementine, wearing
Birkenstocks size nine
Delivering this Oregonite
Daddy is ready
to quack like a duck
Oink like a pig
Gnaw on this rabbit bone probably
crawling with pin worms
I’d love to go two on one with her
and dominate her
with my extremely dominant styles
I'm into it!
We love a clean-up boy
to verbally abuse and spit on
My father was a sexual being too
He saw through the ritual
masturbatory performance
of claustrophobia
Her body is a birds nest
covered in mud and lymph
Allows the human body
any body
to be a vertical body
of water nymph
Now let’s practice
Let’s go Mets!
Let’s go meet
the long haired musician
for some passionate distraction…
Is this pose considered sexy?
Your wife’s feet look so incredibly beautiful
like the rest of her
Legs splayed half-couch
One hundred and twenty degree angle
Dress over face
Why do we want her to disappear?
All she ever wanted was to feel
more important than all the rest
No one knows what is in her basement
Weak people insist
we do incredible violence
JACKPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa I’m doing it
I’m escaping complex trauma
I’m planting a rose garden
I’m hitting mom with a shovel
Ding ding ding ding ding
Lying is easy
Take all my critters
Tap the roof of the car
and live another day
Die another day too…
Idiot euphemism
Hidden agenda
Manipulate my abuse disorder
My sorry existence
I’m just milk to you
Your bloodless shadow
Your secret basement
We are cereal and soup
Triangulate us!
We are pigs rolling in the mud
My DNA is divergent
My poems are evil
My tits are bigger so
I always win
Electric dog arc
executes pupperinos…
ConEd you must pay!
Tom Cruise brought the world
another sunrise
another sunset
Under the full moon
looking for mushrooms
Nothing I say is real
I made it all up
That’s a true story
Photo fo Rebecca Warlick
BIO: Rebecca Warlick is a painter from California. Her Writing is in Spectra Poets, Soft Union, Charm School, Expat, and elsewhere. She lives in NY.