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Red VoiceEmpire seeks power I wrote that
as “Vampire Empire” and drank hotginger tea and said I hate that shit
with a crying face eating potato soupSmelly vegetable poetry I wanted
to make not like plaid but more roundedand couldn’t give the important internal
organ in a tawdry organ swapGrey sky a throat
How many many times to throwI kissed her and pulled her lower lip into my mouthVenus hangs out with the moon
She said she wanted a babyDigressive ParenthesisMake heart-shaped cakes
for the Queen of HeavenThings that make you cry
Geode stone pulseThat plant named Wizard’s herd
When the State of Michigan sells”pristine treaty-protected land
to make a limestone mineI dreamt the spider crossed my eye and I crushed itinto my eye Why is the first
day the hardest day? The citysusurrus Are us particularly
whether you get to maintain the moneyThese poems appear in The Lifted forehead #26. Get your digital copy hereBorn in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington,D.
C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at fresh College of California in San Francisco. Nguyen is co-founder of Skanky Possum, and a poetry journal and book imprint. She is the author of nine books and chapbooks.
Source: theliftedbrow.com