two poems
by Philip Kostov




changing the world

"Quack! We're bigger than the King!"
While the teeny-weeny king cheered,
"Rah, rah, rah!"
The woolly-headed sheep said,
"Baa-baa-baa?

                       Lets hear it,                                 impulse purchasing,
               Off to the needles,                             mon petit sunburn, 
      melted little pile over its acrylic           ready to flame      
  I love this stuff                 the needle my instincts held,          
 pesky cootie                       My arms shot about
 how a NEW YARN            acts about 
     
You may bankrupt me , but I will keep
purchase yarn: 
	HOW DARE YOU INTERUPT A JUDGE 
  But then I          not as squishy,        
         quite a BEAUT!       Le plastique fantastique!
	
                    Witchie woman see how words          fly          wooo wooo  !

IN HIS JUDICIAL CHAMBERS                              WHILE A JUDGE 
a reflection of some other universe                  machine (man(i)fest) 
CLEAR POSSESSION OF, UM, A                           JUDICIAL RECESS!                  
Oh yes he did! He went shopping, y'all!      // commercial butterfly death//                    
                  20 pairs of socks                                                     the page is not a gun.                                             
                  grand total $60                                                        Refresh. Rethawed. Reload.
                  7. Raise your hand.                                                 6. Sit correctly.
                  8. The brain is the moment,                                 

                                    I saw my first dandy lion this week!
                                    and that means only one thing!
                                      Time to Cotton Bottoms UP!
                                                                                     rave continued in Applique Aisle
                                                                                     could resist little card shaped          
                                                                                     like a dress with some
           gingham ribbon?
 indicating when an instrument should
                swell orchestrated of :re-entry 
                an opera-sized Daisy to go on             conspiring to kill 
	questions like 
	police officers
       scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade cookies.

                                     Antichrist charged with 
                                     Using gas peddle as brakes?      
Ask me to believe 
slightly effeminate men
When you combine it and I mean          80s movies, 
                  and a steaming hot shower          really makes you forget you 
	   are slipping on ice and                   there's a car in front of you,
I tap what my instincts have so long told me,                 

         apply too much butter          
         I aim for the sink and flick, 
                                                           the knife slips
                                                           out of my hands
 	              Am I gonna die?
I may've consumed 
a bag of jerky  
7 months out of date!
I'm really scared, Nate 





egg hunt in a haunted graveyard

for Maime, Jill, and Jeremy

       I really wanted to get scared,

	 but I couldn't.

looking for eggs,

 	found: surgical gloves, 

	       	      an axe and shoes, 

	A slaughtered chicken with 
			a knife next to it,

				 heroin needles,

He put dog poop in 4 of the eggs.

             he was kinda slow— 
		          fast enough to cheat.
					        a plastic egg from a
						foreign party with 
				                                drugs inside,

"Oh man!     I got broccoli in my egg!"

             	                     we put ferbies in the middle of
     	          the street and waited behind a tree for
    	the neighbor I called, "Phalanges", to get home,
			 to see his reaction.

         I knew what it meant,

                              	I said it anyways,

                      ( now that I'm older…)…

 			    gizzard! 

	That's what it's called !
	
 balloons filled with
 		      chocolate, 
		                                sour crouton,
			                      	         horse manure— 

     	         (our future)…—…
 
			
In the middle of the graveyard stands a 

	Never ending mailbox,

			 can never reach the end, only

The reach in 		
	             the grasp of

			     the reach of 

		 Wall street opening gunshot,  (!)

	to activate defibrillator on a dead hitchhiker.
		
Reaching for the Spooky lights, the all— 
			
			consuming ghostly hitchhiker,



		    
	         				antique store, 
						Aroma park,
		             
	                        		 town hall,
					 baseball field,

		                   school, 
			         Starburst,

             	                  clean the
			 cob,  
		the only job they had was to         
          		                  web 
		off the Jemini giants face,
			corn


						                               Chickadees! 

				Really wanted to dine there but 

									                               Ignore the wine forget the mutton.

					                                                                                       middle America version of  strip mall graveyard,

                     pointing chickens at people,
				           pretending it's a gun.

	I loved wearing big blue baggy pants,
		           I love 'em and clowns wear 'em too.
		                                 	bags are the baggiest things EVER.

		The only accents/voices I can't do are:
			            Barack Obama and Bill Cosby.
	 (I do a hilarious impersonation of Ashlee Simpson, though.)
	


he's lickin' hands again! 
how cute.
	        …we gotta lotta hands, 
	       give those hands a rest!

			Reviewing his mother's chicken Kiev, 
	"that's definitely a buy."	

	She's a horse person, 
	           (not a horse person) 
	but a person who enjoys horses.

							

		Listen, I don't have a lot of time, 
		my cat licked my hand to the bone, 
		ill leave the briefcase in the bush, 
			in the bush he heard a rumbling, 
			he looked closer in the bush, 
							
			"surprise! You're my therapist!" 



							         
					     
			Moodles: 
				Noodles made out of meat.
				Moodles all you need.
					Made out of meat!

		 	  Used in a sentence: 
		                                    	MOODLES!
	Ya like meat? 
	Ya like noodles? 
	MOODLES!
			the word "moodles"
			Coming out of Will Smiths mouth.
							Preserving moodles 
							in Will Smiths mouth.
										Moodles
										 in the shape of will smith.
				

			    Parallel parking.
		 its kind of the theme for the day, 
			 forcing the cook to make all the
				 moodles parallel on the plate.                  				 

Rocks in your ear? 
	You've heard of what you don't need?
 		You might have heard about it, it's called,  WAR.
				Don't let me encourage what they don't say is true,
		Eating moodles while 
			Listening to crap music from a distance decreasing
				moodle if your toilet seat is cracked wood, like
					Who bit my bum bum?
						 Will Smith ate all my moodles,
				I'm not going crazy,
					Moodles are nothing but everywhere I'm like,
						Get the moodles out your ears!
							who am I to you as if you were
								Not even closely related to 
	Moodles lowered from the heavens, 
	now climb, You wish you had more
	 space in which to proclaim allegiance,
	 impressive in the realm of depressive.

I hope this book is about a papillion who fights snakes and finds water on a ranch.




Peeps memory #354:

We lined the peeps on the window sill and
shot them with a bb gun.
Tim got a pellet in his eye.
I got over here for the bus
and some guy told me the
bus wasn't going to be over
here because there was a bear
in the tree," Goodin said.
ÊHe was avoided by 

people later in life 
because of their fear of 
being hit by lightning, 
and this saddened him. 
He once recalled
 "For instance, 
I was walking with
 the chief ranger one day when
 lightning struck way off. 
The chief said,
 'I'll see you later.'"




			       escape in a crevice	
	                              in the city 	from the city to feel
			             cityness
			your eye on cityness on your mouth

		never ending in you    as if   
				from without, guiding you 
	                your way back into
				  never ending mailbox,

                     Your eyes receive           spooky lights                as if     
commanded transit authority                              redirecting feeling as if     

        sucked into
	 never ending mailbox again,
                                  the eye, freebasing spooky lights

	spit out of the
		never ending mailbox onto

		/obeying)

of                          implicit distractions,
 redirecting commands                         by 

		 fear of outside the
                                                                            coloring lines                      
                                                                                                           shred your                         
							        tax forms 
          at the dinner table                                      
		           reviewing mothers hotpockets and 
                                 					  begging for gushers.

                                                                                   You hear:
     			"doors open on the left at Logan Square"
		         Every time you open and close the bathroom door.

		
		trick or treat trick or treat, 
			give me something good to eat, 
				if you don't, I don't care, 
	
						Surprise you're my therapist!





Philip Sebastian Kostov is a 25 year old prospector of many socks in a small room
with two cats and 99 bodies of bedbugs on the wall. His work has appeared prominently on computer
screens, napkins, and the rear bumper of vehicles alike. Look for him in Chicago where he may be
seen rummaging through the garbage for inspiration/garbage.

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