The Gorko Gazette

First the kitten in you will die and then the person
Look at your fangs and your flea-ridden peers

Children with gray hair and wrinkles jump from the window into the future

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Damn Washington sky-concrete Idaho fucking Texas crimson California and even Miami
From Alaska to Hawaii
This is all my native Africa

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Mom burying my teddy bear
After I died in a car accident

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death is expensive like the smile of the crucified
the robbers who were not executed: they remained robbers, didn’t they?
butterflies with wings torn off: do they really remain butterflies?

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Kitten died at the end of the day
Alive cant be that dead
Throat cant be that quiet
I buried a kitten in a computer box
Next to the grave without a cemetery, I planted a tree
I still remember how I called our son a kitten
In my old age, I will remember how I planted a tree, raised a son and built a new
house for my son

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weep over the dead like a wooden sky – soon it will fall on your head
shovels digs misfortune as if growing a cemetery
the plastic earth underfoot hums indignantly
an iron snake with an apple in its mouth emerges from the fog
but what is it? London? fog?
this is a pink triangle in which we were squeezed with all our might amen

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you are so sad that it starts to rain
autumn leaves are chasing you at every step
dampness at every step

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I’m so old that I remember Jack Bass
I’m so average I want to go on a date with Jack Bass
I’m stupid enough to buy Jack Bass posters before printers became available to the public
I’m so frugal that I’ve always watched Jack Bass videos on pirate sites
(Yes, I’m so unreliable that Jack Bass would not want to date me)
I’m too human to forget Jack Bass
If I turn off the Internet
I will look at my dead phone and believe that
Оne day Jack Bass will respond to my message in messenger

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Winner of the international competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik. 

Published in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinsky journal, Tipton Poetry Journal , Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal , dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine,  Alternate Route , Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press , Book of Matches , on the portals  Ice Floe Press, Litcenter and ‘Soloneba’, in the Ukrainian literary newspaper etc.

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