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much ado about fucking

by franklin cosmos

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1.
you type your poems, breathing i’m up here reading, seething i hope this is right & okay i hope you don’t leave me today your face a rectangled smile my tangled hair stays down all night i woke up, watched you sleep for awhile but some mis-use is alright directions send wind along paths i’d like us to take a long bath but winds blow you this way and that and they’re better than i am so let me take you where the convolvuli lie take me where the birds above paris fly oh your face a rectangled smile but you’re nuts to be having a blue period picasso
2.
we eat and we sleep and we fuck and we breathe and we smile at each other and you talk to my brother and we all laugh, yea we all die and one of these days one of us is gonna make the other sigh i hope it’s not me nobody wants to see us kiss it’s pretty disgusting i know how it is, hannah i’ll see you in hell we’ll be doing pretty well cause we’ll be away from this dark place where we freak each other out and maybe you’ll say hi and i’ll look down or maybe i’ll say hi and you’ll look the other way through the flames but at least we’ll be safe from that boy in the sky i take you outside just to see how it feels i tell you a lie just to prove that i’m real i send love letters too soon and then oh did i even send it yet? goddamn bad haircut boy but i’ll never have the reaction you want i don’t care how handsome you are something chipmunk, chipped tooth but i’m just planted here you’re either really real or you’re trying really hard well it doesn’t matter either way fuck you it’s working! he’s off to work and i’m off to work and my thoughtless jerking around makes me sick and probably you too but i do think real things besides you i just cant prove it, i just don’t want to something chipmunk right now i just want you
3.
wound up 01:00
i love you but i’m still haunted by wounds from other boys still freckled by things far back and mere some are still nearly gaping but not with love, just with having been undone and never explained all the love of you in the cosmos couldn’t close me up so don’t even try just de-robe with me and widen my eyes
4.
cryb aby 00:49
crybaby kiss no one else i hate my body i hate my self crybaby kiss someone else i hate my brain i hate my self
5.
i am not well-dressed, i look like a mess, and we fuck we touch you look like a horse, you’re already bored, we’re banging heads on the floor gaping twin bed dreams, 5th avenue screams, but you’re beaming between he’s around my neck, you’re singing what the heck, cause it turns out i’m not what you expect i know you love me, but sometimes it seems, i’m just part of some scheme walked a pretty mile, along your long cold smile, got home safe earthquake she’s around my neck, what the heck, turns out i’m not what you expect you’re a beauty, won’t you growl at me, bite my booty won’t you kick me? joejoe you’re a beauty, won’t you howl at me, kick my booty, won’t you kiss me? just the other day i woke up in santa fe you were growling at me you’re a knockout in my pink sweater ‘cause it brings out your lipstick better and everybody sees
6.
my simpleton smells like cigarettes, welcome to the spring in your step today it is warm, somebody call debbie harry she needs to be warned daddy’s doing yoga, papas doing yoga so i’m here collapsing passing time passing and i suddenly slipped into my own memory oh the poetic trials of being dimensional why flowery boy why don’t you climb into me later? switchblade heart breaker my simple boy smells like cigarettes, welcome to the spring in your step he is a protector wolf, not a preying one i pray that you stay that way my boy is made out of hay we’ve got it made
7.
underwater aaron, guess what i am wearing? your daddie’s coat, it smells like smoke hey ronnie tell me a story i’m feeling sorry please don’t ignore me i’m running out of chords, i sound like such a bore i’m running out of friend, i dreamt that will got famous half a mile from your house, i can’t wait to kiss your mouth everybody loves a cat, why you gotta be like dat? what is ronnie? what is ben? who are all these handsome men i was so high and happy you liked arthur russell thought about you so hard i pulled a brain muscle
8.
michael(le) 03:11
creatures crawl into our heads sallow boy has shaved his legs well if she’s born with the wrong parts how could god be so goddamn smart? aliens and devils communicate and my baby’s running late sometimes when i really feel i think a god must be real pin pricks are annoying but a knife’ll do fine and the bus never comes but i do sometimes sometimes when i really feel i know god must not be real creatures crawl into our heads sallow boy has shaved his legs well how could god be so goddamn smart if you’re born with the wrong parts? all i want to be holding is your hand in the morning
9.
my friend vitti used to always smoke cigarettes out my window but then one day she sent me a letter saying she moved to france she still shows up once in a while, she never has a warning but she always has a smile and an overcoat and she always smokes cigarettes out that window i say vitti my girl whats the point while you’re here you might as well smoke a joint and she says she doesn’t like to change the way her brain works vitti, i say it won’t be like last time i promise you won’t go out of your mind she says it’s not worth a try she tells me about this boy she’s staying with in Nice who let her give him tattoos on his knees that match hers they read: pippi longstocking sometime vitti leaves in the middle of the night vitti really hate saying goodbyes but i don’t mind cause i’ve got this boy now who smokes cigarettes out that window i’ve got this boy now
10.
sometimes i hate watching mom and dad but boy am i glad to ask you every day if you’re real love is not a thing it’s just how i feel five first loves wearing carhartt gloves 15 dogs on a wall i wanna kiss em all 5 first loves two of em are wearing carhartt gloves 3 of em are holding guitars 2 of em have arm scars 1 of them never loved me back all of them never loved me back i don’t know who i hate worse you or your best friend cause i’ve never had 5 first loves like i love aaron i dreamt i lost my shoes i dreamt i couldn’t see you i saw him in my bed i hurt you in my head dreams are a scary place dreams are leather with lace dreams are a gnarly cunt dreams are a fucked up stunt double of real life fraternal twin dead wife a baby in my body a lady in your body five first loves wearing carhartt gloves 16 dogs on a wall i wanna kiss em all first kiss by the river fall in love every winter
11.
you said always i said never i took your hand like a feather you tolerate me, you wont conflate me everyones angry, i’m not angry i miss joey, he doesn’t know me i got new skateboard wheels, just trying to be real i saw the future, we’re all losers lord knows you’re a charmer, i’ll just be a farmer you got ur red coat on, what am i doing wrong? i don’t know what it is, i wanna feel the grizz
12.
do what you want to me, do what you want i got these black eye and they’re lit from above and i got red eyes and i’m falling apart i got dark eyes and i just need love i screwed up, i’m screwed in getting in the way just means getting in my head and love isn’t love until one of us is dead an existential crisis is so fucking trite fuck these suited loft-bedded boys with their white wine, smooth hair, good eyes sweet-talking icicle, she doesn’t know yet she doesn’t know glass, silver, bowtie eyes kill me despicable vulgar spy meanwhile owen doesn’t love me i have a brother who doesn’t love me a sad-eyed misled bristling puppy and dad whose afraid of my body since fucking when? wake me up wiggle my toes touch my butt pinch my nose i don’t want to be in love with you ronnie it hurts my arms it hurts my body
13.
spagetti 01:10
tell me where you are and i will go there i don’t wanna die i don’t really care let’s make spaghetti and we can eat it i think i love you not that you need it think about you how’s it going? feel so lonely write a poem i swallowed a spider not much of a fighter i’m small and you’re larger he liked henry darger
14.
you don’t need to look outside to know that its dusk i don’t need to look at the clock to know its time to fuck so put your hips on my mine knocking wrists is fine i get glitter in my eyes i got pink upon my thighs and i got minor chords outta me and i got so drunk i forgot how to see and i was loved by a boy named william every night i have dreams that i kill him and i’ve been so drunk i couldn’t move and i forgot how to love & i’ve been naked in ben’s kitchen and i don’t tell him i miss him cause now i think i like aaron but he probably doesn’t like me back but it probably doesn’t matter cause your dad’s up on some ladder and my dad’s just an actor

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released February 29, 2012

ingrid, vitti, frankie, greta, joejoe, and momy

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Frankie Cosmos New York, New York

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