The Gorko Gazette

food for though

breaking news: my
inner life inside
me is gaping
and i’m thuck
drunk scabbed out
and unvetted by
the vetiver i’m
using dude wipes
to redeem my
horizontal ellipsis
eating the trial
fiber one bars
that contain an
amount of rough
age that immediately
fkn kills you
except you don’t
die you hoard
protein and it
peps your tides
down to where
it’s always 2014
and ‘rude’ by
magic! plays always
at this volume
called igguess
ambipathy i should
should i be
fleeing now? i
must type ‘this
movie’s ending and
this shrimp blackmail
is mean-spirited’
on a letterboxd
that no person
or entity will
ever archive to
ignore that’s proper
cbtlc like abilify
gentle laxative abilify
agentle ahack amative
like my shrinc
dekreeing ‘you compulse’
and i pulse
‘i’d like second
opinions’ ‘yeah? you
don’t deploy ‘ontological’
correctly at all’
and i sob
in a phoria
most plausibly eu
cause he’s precise
i don’t use
that word right
not all
all

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joy as an act of remittance

buying you 18 large eggs to
apologize for the fact that
all my atoms seed as crumbs
over the faucet where i gorge
on cold chicken parm cutlets

buying you anti-comedo acid
as recompense for relegating
my wallet to our bed like a
putted shot contaminated by
outside oil and outside value

buying you quarts and quartos
of cookie dough to humble
myself for keckling bouts how
all those double double whammy
bands you fw are tristatetritus

buying you dianthic dialyses
of pink whitney it’s atonement
for the howness of my slowness
when we’re strollin’ sidewalkless
wests that tread so very mid

i and you

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so many people are from des moines

chuckle’n’nod agreeable!
use it when you do exchange

decelerate on the acceleration ramp
to exert and/or inflict comity

live in urbandale or beaverdale
or windsordale live blonde

cough when silence pleads for cash
sow the works goodlike

a reasonable and appropriate thrill
can turn any lull into a lakehouse

eschew the eastside hubbellsores
deflated santas tirefacturers

suitable splurges: khaki
casserole filled with khaki

always know the acceptable
schedulable knob circulations

if you must porch the much off
keep vigilant

buddy you’re an insurance form
be confident

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a week? in provincetown?

countying at
the barnstable fair

i 60 proof over
blueberry bile

it’s a pieeatie
competition

dressed business
puritanical

a pollham falmouth
sermonizes

these bentknuckle folks
love galleries of salt

ABOUT THE ARTIST

jenkin benson is a poet, scholar, and musician. he is from iowa. find his work here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson

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