Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Fallback Feeling By Michael Dwayne Smith


Screw your quirk, gimme crazy,

some version of love manifested as fear


Everyone keeps getting dumber,

like a headache made out of being alive


Truth is I only like strangers,

all alien ego and incomplete evidence


I don't care if you’re creative

or cute, because Doom is always there







Michael Dwayne Smith haunts many literary houses, including The Cortland Review, New World Writing, Third Wednesday, Gargoyle, Chiron Review, Monkeybicycle, and Heavy Feather Review. Author of four books, recipient of the Hinderaker Prize for poetry, the Polonsky Prize for fiction, and a multiple-time Pushcart Prize/Best of the Net nominee, he lives near a Mojave Desert ghost town with his family and rescued horses. His latest full-length collection hopes to go from apparition to publication in 2024.


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