Texas Fontanella
Poetry
maybe I should just get out of it.
                                             “as far as young poets
                                             on the front cover go
                                             they were washed up
                                             way ahead of their time”
Sappho’s
woke as fuck
K-martyr
                                             I want to say I miss talking to you but
                                             I fear what I really miss is the feeling
                                             someone was listening because after
                                             nearly five years, I still feel like
                                             I don’t know you
                                             and I don’t think
                                             that’s just because I wasn’t listening.
                                                                                          “yeah but”
“i have a new rapist now”
                                                                                          “& a hyundai”
laissez faire enough
               otherwise it’s like hitting on yourself / in the head w/ a
                                                                           hammer, amazing
                                             once you stop
                                             at your destination
                                                                                          & go out
               of style
                              oh, oh, just because you go 2
                              a fancy
                              univers
                              ity, that don’t make
                              your neoliberal arts degree any less useless,
                              baby.
& there was also
Don’t Fuck Up
(Fucking up’s the first step to being a fuck up)
so, uh,
                                                                                                                Sorry?
                                                                           an abortive attempt
                                                                           in the 90’s
I like to wear Liv’s hoodie
to bed.
                                                                           it doesn’t add up to much.
                                                                           ephemera.
“how are you these days?”
               dehydrated,
               mainly.
                                             everybody’s sirius but miso soup
                                                            what do i have to be so negative
-ly geared up and dancing
                                                                                                         about
the next generation of emotionally crippled
creatures of drug habit
                                                            stoned as the day you were bore
to bibliophilic tinder woman
favourite authorities JK
Rowling, Stephen King &
               Kurt(sy) Vonne
                              “gutted
it”
                                                            or our case, bad
                                                                           decisions, the lack
                                                                           of living dead road ragers
& good boy plays
on bangers and mash
                                                                           Richard and Nikaylah
                                                                           whocamet2overstayw/
                                                                           us,
                                                                           after the qld floods
                                                                           - a not working title
w/ mythodological approach
living below the poverty line
maguro is a hyundai
& sick of not being able to
drink Carlton, and so settlering
for Sol               sister wd’i’ve
                              stayed in
coherent is af last nite she said had we how not broken
fisher library’s windows &
re-solved the case to blame gentrification
laws, for her black eye
                                             2               matter of faq
tory / party / down / & policy watch / out for congealed
                                                            labor,
                                             this missive (massive)
                                                                           waste of
pay-per-views
                                                                           worked, underpaid
                                                                           37 hours
                                                                           + uni
                                                                           so
Janis Joplin
face-planted it.
                                                                           wtf and omg      indeed
                                                                           my ex
                                                                                                                        it
                                                                                                                        is
absent /
-mind
the
               gap
                                             ed
                                                                           logged / in
                                                                           to
                                                                           Tinder
underwear
                                                                                                         I
                                                                                                         pro
                                                                                                         find
                                                                           a zillion possible roots
                                                                           none of them you
                                             [& i]               like what you’ve done w/ em
                                                                           ployment problems
sometimes it’s bester not to
                                                                           e.g.
                                                                           schizo—effective disorder
these are the really good bits we were talking about b4
apparently        /        a visionary        /         lack of ethics
                                                                                                         & false
eyelashes, my
                                             referred state / of / being quietude,
                                                                           a petty
bourgeoisie
                                                            u get ur money 4 nothing
                                                            & your cheek for free
               I thought i’d read Bolton but
                                it wasn’t much like this
                                                                                          it was     tighter
& I’d rather a bad review than a mediocre
                                                                           one, two —
                                                                           one, two, three, four
a flattening of
cause and effect                                             if you cross out the —
                                             I only pretend to know something
                                             about the economy class experience
If only they’d investigate in poetry,
                                                                           right?
                                                            a no talent
                                                               hacker
(hence this remainder i enjambmented in longform)
butnbsp                 probably my love 4 you is a delusion 2
                                                            crapitalism dreaming of itself
                                                                           let’s get letteral, man
                                                                           ip
                                                                           u
                                                                           latered
                                             & sic to death
                                                                                                         [debt]
does us part-time
@ savoy
they feed they lion
                                                                           check what’s in
                                                                              anity
this week it’s [self-] important to what I didn’t say
                                                                                                         or mean
                                                                           idk
a stay at home and do nothing poem / in
the house that hijack built
I’m No#1 so why try harder?
ah. the diminishing bong rat
                                                                           grabbed a snack pack
                                                                           and left
on the drinking carriage
“maintain the wage stagnation”
                                             “twerk for the dole”
                                                            “like a plebiscite”
                                             “from a—z
                                                                                          donkey”
                                                                                          “ran ract rof frate"
that’s how we do it in the druitt
               w/ scar quotes
                                                                           Disney presents
                              masturbating on ice
& more
Carlton
drafting
may as well end it here
                                             but tinder woman
                                             she’s also
                                             enamored w/
                                             the history
+ the fashion                    of ww2
of the 40s                            & so reads
& 50s                                   biographies
                                             of soldiers and stuff
                                             soldering, it’s fass
                                             how ppl were so disenfranchised
                                             they elected a clearly evil and psychotic
                                             man
                                                                           LMBO it
I said I was into labour history
so,
                                                                           she said the industrial
                                                                           revolution
                                                 was in              arresting
                                                                           tell me about joe
                              it’s been almost a year
all we’ve got is
                                                            getting cen-sual
                                                            up in here (&just you liking it
                                                            (doing the census late, hey, argh
u2 — I hate that band
                                                                           2/
                                                                           fish/
                                                                           cock/
                                                                           tails
how cowboy fucking bepop —
                                             ‘a startling is all the rave
                                             the purple pissing ha-’
                                                                           a daisy
                                                                           mayday as well
                                             more skin on my nose.
                                                            this is gay
                                                            triarchy
                                                                           in action
                                             “I’m sexually
                                             prostrated”
                                                                                          Thanks Mike!
still not happy w/
muggle class
welfare
                                             LYRE LYRE
                                             PANTS ON PARIAH
Texas Fontanella is a student at USYD. Their work has previously appeared or is forthcoming at In Between Hangovers, Uut, Ex Ex Lit, Futures Trading, The Zoomoozophone Review, The New Post Literate, Rasvada, Moss Trill, Beakful, H&, Truck, PoetryWTF & The Helios Mss. They maintain a blog poorly: http://ptfblog.blogspot.com.au/.
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Poetry
maybe I should just get out of it.
                                             “as far as young poets
                                             on the front cover go
                                             they were washed up
                                             way ahead of their time”
Sappho’s
woke as fuck
K-martyr
                                             I want to say I miss talking to you but
                                             I fear what I really miss is the feeling
                                             someone was listening because after
                                             nearly five years, I still feel like
                                             I don’t know you
                                             and I don’t think
                                             that’s just because I wasn’t listening.
                                                                                          “yeah but”
“i have a new rapist now”
                                                                                          “& a hyundai”
laissez faire enough
               otherwise it’s like hitting on yourself / in the head w/ a
                                                                           hammer, amazing
                                             once you stop
                                             at your destination
                                                                                          & go out
               of style
                                                            the resource boom
                                                                           ending
                                                                           glitchless
                                             how homerpalooza
               nuclear family pavement / in Ashfield
                                             cerebral stereopsis
                                                            — fuck Yugoslavia
don’t tell me what the poets are doing
                                             escape retroperpetuity
                                             come out as bipolar
                                                            & gender
                                                            dysmorphic,
                                                            how orphic
                              oh, oh, just because you go 2
                              a fancy
                              univers
                              ity, that don’t make
                              your neoliberal arts degree any less useless,
                              baby.
& there was also
Don’t Fuck Up
(Fucking up’s the first step to being a fuck up)
so, uh,
                                                                                                                Sorry?
                                                                           an abortive attempt
                                                                           in the 90’s
I like to wear Liv’s hoodie
to bed.
                                                                           it doesn’t add up to much.
                                                                           ephemera.
“how are you these days?”
               dehydrated,
               mainly.
                                             everybody’s sirius but miso soup
                                                            what do i have to be so negative
-ly geared up and dancing
                                                                                                         about
the next generation of emotionally crippled
creatures of drug habit
                                                            stoned as the day you were bore
to bibliophilic tinder woman
favourite authorities JK
Rowling, Stephen King &
               Kurt(sy) Vonne
                              “gutted
it”
their poverty caused by your quinoa
a manstake, miso
                              gynoir
                                                            or our case, bad
                                                                           decisions, the lack
                                                                           of living dead road ragers
& good boy plays
on bangers and mash
                                                                           Richard and Nikaylah
                                                                           whocamet2overstayw/
                                                                           us,
                                                                           after the qld floods
                                                                           - a not working title
w/ mythodological approach
living below the poverty line
maguro is a hyundai
& sick of not being able to
drink Carlton, and so settlering
for Sol               sister wd’i’ve
                              stayed in
coherent is af last nite she said had we how not broken
fisher library’s windows &
re-solved the case to blame gentrification
laws, for her black eye
                                             2               matter of faq
tory / party / down / & policy watch / out for congealed
                                                            labor,
                                             this missive (massive)
                                                                           waste of
pay-per-views
                                             the Indian Ocean live streamed
                                             on the biggest TVs our / houses’ve had
                                                            ownership of, yet
why fall in love when you can fall over
                                                                           worked, underpaid
                                                                           37 hours
                                                                           + uni
                                                                           so
Janis Joplin
face-planted it.
                                                                           wtf and omg      indeed
                                                                           my ex
                                                                                                                        it
                                                                                                                        is
absent /
-mind
the
               gap
                                             ed
                                                                           logged / in
                                                                           to
                                                                           Tinder
underwear
                                                                                                         I
                                                                                                         pro
                                                                                                         find
                                                                           a zillion possible roots
                                                                           none of them you
                                             [& i]               like what you’ve done w/ em
                                                                           ployment problems
sometimes it’s bester not to
                                                                           e.g.
                                                                           schizo—effective disorder
these are the really good bits we were talking about b4
apparently        /        a visionary        /         lack of ethics
                                                                                                         & false
eyelashes, my
                                             referred state / of / being quietude,
                                                                           a petty
bourgeoisie
                                                            u get ur money 4 nothing
                                                            & your cheek for free
               I thought i’d read Bolton but
                                it wasn’t much like this
                                                                                          it was     tighter
& I’d rather a bad review than a mediocre
                                                                           one, two —
                                                                           one, two, three, four
a flattening of
cause and effect                                             if you cross out the —
                                             I only pretend to know something
                                             about the economy class experience
If only they’d investigate in poetry,
                                                                           right?
                                                            a no talent
                                                               hacker
(hence this remainder i enjambmented in longform)
butnbsp                 probably my love 4 you is a delusion 2
                                                            crapitalism dreaming of itself
                                                                           let’s get letteral, man
                                                                           ip
                                                                           u
                                                                           latered
                                             & sic to death
                                                                                                         [debt]
does us part-time
@ savoy
they feed they lion
                                                                           check what’s in
                                                                              anity
this week it’s [self-] important to what I didn’t say
                                                                                                         or mean
                                                                           idk
a stay at home and do nothing poem / in
the house that hijack built
I’m No#1 so why try harder?
ah. the diminishing bong rat
                                                                           grabbed a snack pack
                                                                           and left
on the drinking carriage
“maintain the wage stagnation”
                                             “twerk for the dole”
                                                            “like a plebiscite”
                                             “from a—z
                                                                                          donkey”
                                                                                          “ran ract rof frate"
that’s how we do it in the druitt
               w/ scar quotes
                                                                           Disney presents
                              masturbating on ice
& more
Carlton
drafting
may as well end it here
                                             but tinder woman
                                             she’s also
                                             enamored w/
                                             the history
+ the fashion                    of ww2
of the 40s                            & so reads
& 50s                                   biographies
                                             of soldiers and stuff
                                             soldering, it’s fass
                                             how ppl were so disenfranchised
                                             they elected a clearly evil and psychotic
                                             man
                                                                           LMBO it
I said I was into labour history
so,
                                                                           she said the industrial
                                                                           revolution
                                                 was in              arresting
                                                                           tell me about joe
                              it’s been almost a year
all we’ve got is
                                                            getting cen-sual
                                                            up in here (&just you liking it
                                                            (doing the census late, hey, argh
u2 — I hate that band
                                                                           2/
                                                                           fish/
                                                                           cock/
                                                                           tails
how cowboy fucking bepop —
                                             ‘a startling is all the rave
                                             the purple pissing ha-’
                                                                           a daisy
                                                                           mayday as well
                                             more skin on my nose.
                                                            this is gay
                                                            triarchy
                                                                           in action
                                             “I’m sexually
                                             prostrated”
                                                                                          Thanks Mike!
still not happy w/
muggle class
welfare
                                             LYRE LYRE
                                             PANTS ON PARIAH
Texas Fontanella is a student at USYD. Their work has previously appeared or is forthcoming at In Between Hangovers, Uut, Ex Ex Lit, Futures Trading, The Zoomoozophone Review, The New Post Literate, Rasvada, Moss Trill, Beakful, H&, Truck, PoetryWTF & The Helios Mss. They maintain a blog poorly: http://ptfblog.blogspot.com.au/.