Intensities “3”

Smthing [ sic ] that resembles /
[ uh] a burning lake → 
Feudal matrices occulted
State-in-a-state , money-eating
His bitter thoughts 
What yr evening friend [ cont. ]
Would call security theater
No sense of what’s moral /
at its natural core , at the core
[ sic ] of its nature , in-waiting
& romantically ahistorical
I can cast two shadows at once
Repress any memory
As if there could be want /
Without [ . . . ] a ghostly verge
His weeping spell (see IMG_16.JPEG)
That signals 5 more winters
An evaporated attention
Not a choke , [ BUT ] 
Still still still

Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including the novels, Gut Text (11:11 Press) and Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press); the poetry collections, The Persimmon is an Event (Broken Sleep Books) and Under Reef (Onomatopee Projects); the plays Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Cephalonegativity (Apocalypse Party); and the essay collection, Surface Studies (Action Books). He lives in the Midwest.