19/08/2024
Pleased to present “Imperfection, Achieving It,” a sequence of sixteen poems by Mark Francis Johnson.
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“What they’ve cried
this evening over
loudspeakers – who knows,
noise. My guess, water is a
the least form of powder?
that’s true. However, that’s wrong
everything is the same,
it’s all conspired to kill
another of my teeth. Dear molar
how seldom really I saw you, yet
I am begging you look at me,
nine teeth down,
grieving you beneath a sky
loudspeakers occupy.
So, this is shock. No further points
just one: it is total fu***ng crap
I should lose another tooth to this world.”
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MARK FRANCIS JOHNSON lives in Philadelphia. He is one-third of Hiding Press, along with Andy Martrich and Jon Gorman. His latest book is Diary of a String (Spiral Editions, 2024).
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