| this is oh so blue A MAGAZINE OF FICTION, POETRY & MORE! |
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| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ISSUE #11 $O.OO |
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| June 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** Oisín Breen: I'm a young Irish writer. I've written two books and am looking for a publisher for them. The eventual aim after much honing of my craft is to create a hallucinogenic push through literature.I've had several poems published and have had favourable reviews and sponsorship of my writing. |
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| All things sinister, all things familiar, the stars on my collar look good in the mirror. My dreams are only embers. Mind tangled up staring shadowy fear in the face I sketch my dreams of last night in the cloud. War for me is the same as my dreams, a hiding place for my own mistakes. Drinking Jamaican rum I am the cloud staring at fire. I draft soldiers like lots from the junkyard. At night I sit by the fireplace read Proust soothed by the calm sound of gunfire. I draft graveyards like soldiers and fill them with daisies and tears. Shadows like rabid men leap on me when I stare too long. I puff clouds of Odysseus. Insanity my raison détre drives me like a taxi. My shadow is my curriculum vitae. I shoot bullets to save the bomb. I throw soldiers like glue to stick on an invisible wall. I ride a unicycle in the presidential chair pounding the cerebral drum. I exhale wooden ships on the water. I breathe cannon fire! Night turns only to night and I bang a tin gong. This is war! Draw our lines soldiers! I am the cloud tonight. I’ll stay safe up here. We are all nameless drawing rules for the game while U wait. I lilt under the solar kiss of a twisted ivory sun. It is dawn. This dream is done. Dance! Dance Mohammed dance! Yesterday I threw strings around Jesus and made him dance! Dance Krishna dance! Dance angels dance! We are all nameless standing in a sea of red flowers. I cannot move. I puff clouds of butterflies sweating in the pale lunar shadow. Dance! Dance Jehovah dance! Yesterday I threw strings around Buddha and made him dance! Dance Moses dance! Dance sinners dance! I have power! I am all-powerful! I sent a memo to the heads of state, throw bombs out the windows! On a blood red street somewhere all over the world I bought an infinity of graveyards. I throw strings around my self and tie my Purple Heart and silver stripe around my neck. I asphyxiate on my own undoing. I meditate on my own confusion. Derided by the butterfly I fight the pacifist. Shooting bullets to save the bomb on a blood red canvas the sun dances like a saviour. Looking in the mirror and on the naked street I tune myself like a guitar and get ready for another protest song. |
| All things sinister |
| by Oisín Breen |