Mercury Must Be In Retrograde or Some Bullshit
You go to the reading and then to a nice
dinner with friends. You started drinking
early and on the drive from St. Louis to Cape
you puke all over yourself
Fajita Nachos
It's your medication making you sick again
You know you shouldn't drink on it
But sometimes you want to have a nice
dinner with friends. There might be something
more to it
You slap yourself. Then you slap
yourself again harder. You tell
your wife this is no way to live
You tell your wife that you want to kill
yourself. You puke again
It's okay, she says, it's okay
You've been so nervous for so many weeks now
that there's not enough klonopin left to do the job
even if you really wanted to. And you did
didn't you? For a moment
you thought about it and rode the rest
of the way home with puke drying on
your best pants and a wife who says
it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay
like a prayer.
My Penis
I've never been happy with it
not being as big as I'd hoped
This kid at church camp
asked me if there was something
wrong with it
hidden up under its shell
It got better, I guess, as I got older
but never quite to what I wanted it to be
which was something worth writing home about
Now, it doesn't work
bipolar meds and whatnot
I still don't like the way people use
the size as an insult
Usually it's men, sometimes women
Often it's in a meme
Often it's directed at Trump and his imagined
small penis
People with small penises are rushing out
in droves to buy big trucks and corvettes
The little weens are stockpiling guns
The pencil dicks are shooting up schools
We're all just compensating
Like that's what makes Trump bad
Like that's what makes is all bad
Almost like it all boils down to a dick.
Daniel
Crocker's work has appeared in The
Los Angeles Review, Hobart, Big Muddy, New World Writing, Stirring,
Juked, The Chiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review and
over 100 others. His books include Like
a Fish (full
length) and The
One Where I Ruin Your Childhood (e-chap
with thousands of downloads) both from Sundress Publications. Green
Bean Press published several of his books in the '90s and early
2000s. These include People
Everyday and Other Poems, Long Live the 2 of Spades, the
novel The
Cornstalk Man and
the short story collection Do
Not Look Directly Into Me. He
has also published several chapbooks through various presses. His
newest full length collection of poetry, Shit
House Rat, was
published by Spartan Press in September of 2017. Stubborn Mule Press
published Leadwood:
New and Selected Poems—1998-2018 in
October 2018. He was the first winner of the Gerald Locklin Prize in
poetry. He is the editor of The
Cape Rock (Southeast
Missouri State University) and the co-editor of Trailer
Park Quarterly. He's
also the host of the podcast, Sanesplaining, about
poetry, mental illness and nerd stuff.
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