Anti-Heroin Chic
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Music
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • About Our Contributors
  • Masthead
  • Issues
  • About our contributors - 2019
  • About Our Contributors - 2020
  • About Our Contributors - 2021
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Music
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • About Our Contributors
  • Masthead
  • Issues
  • About our contributors - 2019
  • About Our Contributors - 2020
  • About Our Contributors - 2021
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

​

10/4/2022

Poetry By Jim Trainer

Picture
        Tim Vrtiska CC



CANADIAN GIRL

the night I met you the cops took
a mentally ill man to the pavement
dogpiling him, each taking an arm
with the third one waving cars through
at the café a woman in line in front of me
videotaped herself telling the staff

she was a sovereign being
you were the only one in there reading
but put your book in your bag
and we got out of there,
walked round the capitol
with armed staties’ talkies
crackling with crickets in the dark grass
we climbed 7th at the top of the hill
slewed club beats and overwrought bass
wrecked in the city air

at my place you unrolled a giant map
from your bag and lay on it
looking up at me like you wanted to be kissed
I pushed the glass doors wide

as the sirens died down
and lay with you there
feeling the hot migration between us
pulling you in and taking me there.

​


​
SEQUESTRANT

every time I left you I found me
and now I can’t leave and I’m lost
it was perfect poetry—your hair blown
like Patti Smith, refineries rising
behind you higher than the moon
the charm of youth is never knowing
what a fool you are
and wicked middle-age only the reservation
to never be foolish again

the cold spring makes me think of you
but everything does
there’s toms in the high weed
wincing at me with no difference
between disgust and disregard
the fire station’s lit up
brighter than the dusk
I pass these bougie people like a ghost
I make it in put up my own lights
slide open the glass doors let the cold
in like a welcome pain
I’m glad of the past and
underwhelmed on the future
the present at the desk breaking
to smoke and let
another night chelate and unspool
my lonely weight
pry you from me and all love.

​
​
Picture
Jim Trainer is a poet, publisher, writer and performer.  He blogs at Going For the Throat, has been a columnist for Into The Void magazine and contributes to Music, Movies&Hoops.  As a proponent of personal journalism Trainer reports on the inner life while writing about recovery, mental health and the creative process.  Trainer publishes one letterpressed and perfectly bound-by-hand collection of poetry, and sometimes prose, every year through Yellow Lark Press.  STRIDE is his 8th. Trainer is the progenitor of Stand Up Tragedy™ and performs regularly throughout the world.


Comments are closed.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    December 2024
    November 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    March 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.