Dance Party Remix

we party-hardy in the hospital

                        we take over your room, camp out, break

out the disco ball like it’s 1972

                                    we shimmy-shimmy go-go pop

                                                pop on borrowed time

                                                            tripping the light fantastic

giant linoleum squares

                                    spread out like a picnic blanket

                                                                        a makeshift dance floor bleached

            of all but desire and the dripdrip

                                                  drip beepbeepbeep of sick bay

                                                                            electronica pulsing pulsing

in my heart is an ant forever carrying the dead

& other crumbs

 

Quercitron

hem        nightgown

            long fingers

a dream   slow    stirring

            a loose thread

a twitching    brushing

long fingers                  reaching

            a grazing       of skin

half awake                   tangle of sheets

a swatting                     a sting

      sleeping prick

      drunk bee              a death

      ankle                                  a tumescence

velvet body                  crushed

tube of gold       paint

squeezed                      flat

            a stillness

 

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Georgia Bellas is a writer, artist, and filmmaker whose current obsession is balloon animals. She and Dan Nielsen are the Wisconsin-based duo Sugar Whiskey (https://sugarwhiskey.com/), a post-minimalist art band. You can follow her teddy bear, host of the award-winning weekly Internet radio show “Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon,” on Twitter @MrBearStumpy.

 

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