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by Gary J. Shipley Gary J. Shipley was grown from manseed using the very latest hydroponics Search Archives *** You got to be always skunk. There’s fuck all else to say – it’s the only stink there is. How else you gonna save yourself from the weak-assed perfume of just being okay, if you can’t stink it up more than them reekers too afraid to reek of anything? What genus? Spotted, hog-nosed, hooded, any one’ll do. Just be that cunting skunk! And if it happens, and it will, that you stink so good and proper people reckon you ambrosial, ask around for someone with a nose for anal air, death-row inmates, ambulance men, porn stars, plastic surgeons, any fuckwit with a voice, and ask them what it is they cannot smell, and the death-row inmate, the ambulance man, the porn star, the plastic surgeon will give it to you straight: “If you’re going to smell you might as well really stink like shit. Or else risk not being smelled at all, so go be skunk, skunk yourself the fuck up! And don’t stress the genus any, spotted, hog-nosed, hooded, malodour is where it’s at and always its own reward.” *** January 2023 February 2022 September 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 August 2017 July 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 I imagine ol’ raisin-nuts Baudelaire turning slowly yellow, his tits in a sack, his liver like a April 2014 March 2014 pockmarked turd, and I long to save him from all kinds of intoxication. I want to preserve him February 2014 January 2014 for unborn generations, who will recognise him December 2013 not by sight but by the cut of his scent, a scent I’m proud to have initiated and prouder still to spread. November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 note: I’ve started this feature up as a kind of homage and alternative (a companion series, if you will) to the incredible work Alex Dimitrov and the rest of the team at the The Academy of American Poets are doing. I mean it’s astonishing how they are able to get masterpieces of such stature out to the masses on an almost daily basis. But, some poems, though formidable in their own right, aren’t quite right for that pantheon. And, so I’m planning on bridging the gap. A kind of complementary series. Enjoy! June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012

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