Tiana Reid–Will I Ever Stop Smoking

TIANA REID

WILL I EVER STOP SMOKING

 

—off-season fire hydrant—slick

yellow dew—

ghostdance with defiance

another—set of circumstances—

—cystic demons, dusty sandwiches, dying again—

it’s telescopic, trilliumed passageways

 

8am in montreal

fragmented call—big lack

notebook full of bars—

fluidity trains key—recall the fragment

—member the wreckless loose-tongued waterfall

crinkly setting apart—roundabout pineapple—

feel the plastic, savory, animal

 

—well well well—losing grip

as they say—

vybrate together-task

announce lifechasm—

the might, the air—exited

together—swank!—i love it

—I love it, so gone

I’m so gone I love it

 

(do the girls back home radiate

like this) (they have to)

so long to my disgust—the valiant tedium

undesirable sanction—co-release my little

toes—luck—biting—perfume—

 

a little archive of forbidden—

on god—begin again—aloof paradigm