{"id":1187,"date":"2008-03-11T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2008-03-11T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:27:00","slug":"two-poems-by-christopher-mulrooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-by-christopher-mulrooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems by Christopher Mulrooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

the price of admission<\/span>
 <\/span>

you kick the sign in your forehead<\/span>
with your own left foot<\/span>
it isn't a guarantee by any means<\/span>
something about your grace when doing so<\/span>
must win the heart of the machine<\/span>
 <\/span>

 <\/span>
shop 'til you drop<\/span>
 <\/span>

I. Brokeback Market<\/span>
 <\/span>
you check your guns at the door<\/span>
the lonesome cowboys on the soundtrack<\/span>
watch your every move<\/span>
with rustling eyes<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
II. HQ Super<\/span>
 <\/span>
this is the peaceable kingdom<\/span>
swans and geese are for sale<\/span>
pigeons and sweetmeats<\/span>
fans and automobiles and diapers<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
III. meat market<\/span>
 <\/span>
the lonely matador leaves his ring<\/span>
for security at the carneceria<\/span>
you can fight it at four<\/span>
and have it on the table by seven<\/p>\n

\u2022 Christopher Mulrooney lives in Los Angeles and has written poems in White Chimney<\/span>, The Delinquent, Vanitas, Guernica, echolocation<\/span> and fourW<\/span>.
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