Two Poems
Parker Tettleton
I Have No Recommendations
I’m watching nothing. I fucking hate nothing. There’s too much nothing in front of more nothing. You? I don’t know why, nor do I want to. I remember us, & I remember when you left. I remember not wanting you to ever come back. The nothing team almost hit a nothing home run but they fucking nothing didn’t. Nothing fuck yeah.
Sadness Is A Cigarette That Keeps Burning
Today was the first, six years ago, where we met, did the nervous shit, the cute shit. It was a Friday like today is a Friday. October like it is October. I was at work that day & I was at work today. I look to my right & there’s a wall that leads into the bedroom of this apartment. I look to my right at work & I don’t know yet.
Parker Tettleton is a vegan Leo living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Classic Plastic (Ravenna Press, forthcoming), OR (Ravenna Press, 2022), This Is A City (Ravenna Press, 2020), Please Quiet (Ravenna Press, 2018), Ours Mine Yours (Pitymilk Press, 2014), Greens (Thunderclap Press, 2012) and Same Opposite (Thunderclap Press, 2010). Parker Tettleton is online at parker-augustlight.blogspot.com.