Exclusive I am submitting my book to be published

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Do any of you read the writing prompts on reddit? Some of the replies are really good. I know one is even being turned into a movie. Read the prompt, click the thread, enjoy!

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/top/

 

We should sue.

barfo

 

Sure

 

Black Box


They tore the black box from

my skull


The found the wreckage finally

at the bottom of my stomach


Sunken in the ocean

of my grief


Your death is stuck on repeat

they won't stop watching


I can hear the screams of my adult self


The child inside me

is a blind mute

with no face

just skin


You can see me

through your dead

eyes


Your noose laughs at me

The lasso of it

treats your death like a

rodeo


Then I stand over

your cut down body

turning blue

smoke a cigarette

and tear at my tongue

to stop the screaming

 

I Too Have Died



Hemingway too walked into the sunset

He took an alloy pill

for his aliment

witnessed cacophonous poetry


Crane dived into the ocean of

his soul

Swam for his dreams

always a breast stroke away


Woolf filled her pockets

with demons

took them with her

to the peaceful river bed

where salmon

go to church on Sunday


Plath

Breathed the poisonous fumes

of dinners hot companion

gassy LSD

whose only hallucinations are reality

and pot roast


Thompson got to old

"counselor"

"This wont hurt"

I wish he'd stop bitching

 

Reverse Cancer


The chemicals

seep slowly

Crawling from the deep crevices of your alveoli

Out of your singed bronchi

Snake up your trachea

in wisps of dark grey


You exhale fifty years’ worth

plumes of necrotic smoke

Your lips part

Slowly at first

Then unhinge with your jaw

as the great form issues outward

like a demon escaping from your depths

into the tube

Where the cigarette

and you

become whole again

 

The above are three poems out of my book.

 

They all float down there

 

1. You should write some poetry about dogs. Preferably playing poker.

2. Why aren't you winning the caption contest? You're a very good writer.

 

For my Poetry Book. I'm still shopping it. Haven't gotten that far with it yet. I can tell you I am looking at publishers who aren't going to charge me to publish it out of pocket. I just got to make sure I don't screwed on the back end.

My first book didn't go all to well. I signed with a publisher where I had to do all of the marketing. I was young and I struggled with it. I am trying to find one that can help with some of that this time around.