Matt Trease
From an internet of things
Matt Trease is a digital artist and poet currently living in Seattle, WA. His poetry has recently appeared in Burdock, Requited, and Cordite Poetry Review, Filling Station, and Small Po(r)tions. He is the author of the chapbook Later Heaven: Production Cycles (Busylittle1way Designs, 2013).
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From an internet of things
something alien as
“me time” and a little
stranger pressed a warning
maps that will help you make
the glorious sound of
the one-way street and you
     ф
the product of labour
                                             is
there, most signs need their
                              me
               slippers on bare feet
                                             and
now you can add forms
                              and
               can’t get it down with
                                             out
               a one-way trip
                             to Mars
     ф
the concept of the
                             estranged
nothing here that can’t
                             be
footsteps and voices
                             were
the person you think
                             is
the deafening roar
                             it’s
my time just making
                             [rhyme]
     ф
being other than my
little bit of focus
the lepers in your head
why do you say things like
you have a country full
of everywhere I’ve been
     ф
old middle-class of self
putting yourself out there
your self are your poems
full of whip-crack, smart
                             howls
a momentary flash
                             of
insight in that great
                             [abyss]
     ф
some Oedipus of the
sub self out there most signs
frankly don’t write any
monetary value
in white send roses to
one
               [I can’t remember]
Matt Trease is a digital artist and poet currently living in Seattle, WA. His poetry has recently appeared in Burdock, Requited, and Cordite Poetry Review, Filling Station, and Small Po(r)tions. He is the author of the chapbook Later Heaven: Production Cycles (Busylittle1way Designs, 2013).