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SEVEN POEMS
ANNA DORN


los angeles

aggressively dewy face
very wide pant
wider than the void
i did ketamine
at paris hilton's birthday
we live in a democracy
i just learned that
when i was 16 and poetry
was an acceptable pastime
i was reading marx
now everyone is obsessed with socialism
and i want to do ketamine
with bernie sanders
can i stop thinking right now
and be beautiful instead?


nicotine vitamin

los angeles
is the only place
where sunlight carries
a sense of dread
but what does your therapist think of me?
i've been carrying around a stack of papers
as a prop
and i'm being asked
to act in films
when do i get to go to the hospital
for exhaustion
does she think i'm a narcissist?
i love weed
& i love guns
said my uber driver
as we cruised to a sushi restaurant
where my mom said
she'd like to be trampled to death
By horses
and my sister fell on the floor
Drunk


very chill

you smoke to 'chill out'
i smoke for sexy intrusive thoughts
to access my subconscious
and to make everything
'Smarter'
i dislike problem-solvers
'problems' are keeping me alive
otherwise i just look at the sky
what is the healthiest cigarette ?
i don't believe in setting intentions
what happens
is none of my business


big pharma

everyone is worried about
having enough food and
i'm
fantasizing about starving
to death
forever ashamed &
adorable in my nightgown
on sativa
deluded
the women are horny and
it rained for 5 days and
Everyone is
Always
Alone.


obsessed

in a slightly different time
slightly after iphone time
or slightly before
it exists online
no beside it
on the ceiling
watching and laughing
feeling uneasy
on Tumblr
very wet and leafing
through Adorno
sometimes i start drinking
to get off my phone


serpentine

i could say i'm a poet
from one neurotoxin
to another
putting my hand down
at the wifi cafe
female faggot
brushing my teeth very hard &
staring into space
thinking
all news is fake and
everyone is drunk
writing
for the man or worse
two rattlesnakes fucking
what a fabulous
hair day
we're all having


romance

i started writing poetry
so i would stop tweeting
R u joking? she asked
i never know
maybe
my teacher said intelligence is just
making connections
and i connect
Confidence
with
Idiocy
i prefer airheads
surprising
& Sexy
Freud said lesbians
are stuck
i think
Love
is a projection
Fake,
but more real
than anything else