19.11.21

Three Poems by Joseph Goosey

Top Ten Scientists Who Would Be Executed Today

Why earn a salary before graduation
when you could explode the federal reserve
board building & finally communicate
with your birth truth? Sitting here
holding an ice cube to this mouth wound
of unidentifiable origin, at least I know
what's inside: one decade
of mandatory guilt & a lifetime
of cancerous plastic compounds
courtesy of Dupont corporation - 
not only cancerous
but likely to blame for this brain
coming to you now, live
& nobody's request,
from the least lucrative of stages.




Slice New York City Open

& change your religion 
from Agnostic to O Shit 
They're Coming For Us 
From Below & Above! 
Nobody will ever care
about the panic attack 
you'll obviously have 
immediately following. 
This isn't The Sopranos.
We don't get that brand 
of public compassion.
We get lemon slices 
milked onto bland 
afternoons at best 
or a no knock warrant 
served at second. 



E.E. Cummings Was A Huckster McCarthyite

& that’s fine. Nothing new.
We’re all occasionally awful.
I’ve got my share of rotting thoughts like
E.E. Cummings was a total bigot fuckboi.
& that’s not fine.
People evolve
but E.E. Cummings chose elsewhere
& tricked whatever middle school you attended
into peddling his brand
of individualist trash.
Snakeoil trash as companion piece
to Atlas  F’n Shrugged. I mean
Just. No. Now those foundations flourish
even more than then
& nothing screams unique
like being the worst.