Parade of Malfeasance

by Joseph Goosey

When I was young, 32 years ago,
I wanted to be a poet with a crap life.
This year I just want a couch
with springs that won't jam into our asses
in ways we don't desire. It's a hot verve
filled with residency requirements,
funeral rites, registration fees,
and out of body experiences
so intense we forget
our license must be renewed
in order to continue making the kind of living
not suitable for children.

Selected by Dennis Cooper as a favorite poetry book of 2020.

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2020

Reviews

[Andrea Janov · Rating 5 out of 5]

This honest voice, in verse, is exactly what I (and in my opinion most poets) need. We need to keep pushing the idea that poetry is not what we were taught in school and that it can be the language of the every day.