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January 28, 2025 / barton smock

begin times

I cut myself near a doll that wasn’t meant to look like me.

Nakedness,
find your nudes.
January 24, 2025 / barton smock

by the time god exists you go unborn into the right body

My son stops biting.
Our teeth
have no thoughts.
January 22, 2025 / barton smock

consumptions

Mother with her paintbrush and me with my fever. There are no miracles. There are no miracles because of what miracle does to memory. When I fall on the ice, ache takes one of my hands as a shortcut. Never reach god.    
January 20, 2025 / barton smock

film,


notes for film 8, the last

I notice the bathroom floor isn’t healing. There’s a roach in the house of the miracle-worker. Just one, just one. Age isn’t here, but it’s not a thing of the past. What I thought was guilt, was guilt. God’s god is touch. Worldview, worldvoid. The alarmist nostalgias of my faith. Seeing double is a sickness that disappears my children. My password made me look like this. Nonsense, angel. I am lifting with my arms

red weights on a white lawn while the leash of a blue dog tells my wrist a secret about my neck.

Mirror invents the ghost.
January 17, 2025 / barton smock

film,

film 7

Angels cut themselves in invisible changing rooms. Ohio covers god’s tattoos with ice. I am watching on my phone a television lose blood in front of my son’s old breathing machine. Fire isn’t everywhere.
January 16, 2025 / barton smock

film,

film 6

The face of god trapped in a scratch on a whale’s eye. A mother’s mouth shaped to shrink the cigarette’s brain. Ice that heals the sex lives of record collectors dying in Ohio. My unfollowed life of absolute distraction. A star above it that is a ghost branded by a moth. The spotlight that moves the abuse at last the spotlight
January 14, 2025 / barton smock

the babies we don’t use

Soon is what everyone dies of
January 13, 2025 / barton smock

poem without a body

Acne is the only intimacy that god allows the lonely.

Face
is the star
nearest
to death.

January 12, 2025 / barton smock

poem that lets nothing in the world happen

Everyone is writing. There’s no sound in heaven and ghosts are the teeth of god. I can’t even read I’m so sick. I have been a boy not wanting to know about sex and I have also been a boy wanting to kiss a crow put to sleep by god’s footprint. I looked it up twice on my phone how to set oneself on fire. The body is a boring dream. I can’t enter a building without hearing a baby stop breathing in the uncrushed stomach of my inner child. Someone says oh look and it’s just something outside that should be there. 
January 11, 2025 / barton smock

poem that deletes meaning

Be the false thing that god worships. Lead hyposexuals to the sleepwalker tired of finding your body. I am desperately dumb. America is ruined because the destroyed parts of America angel no creature to a stop. Imagery is a measure of detail's molasses loss. I can't go back, or I'd take that out.