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poems by alexis sikorski & music by sean burnette

1/30/2017

 

 THE LIGHTBULB CONSPIRACY BY ALEXIS SIKORSKY 

we were astronauts and
beekeepers;
archaeologists and mechanics;
overseas teachers
getting drunk off communion wine
in a theocratic country with no believers. 
I was the blowhole in a whale and
the trash heap at sea
I was a groundbreaking invention
hidden under planned obsolescence 
you were the vitamin C I took daily and the cold I caught anyway
you were a ferris wheel showing a child the world at the top
we were
forks coming off of screaming rivers and
diving into sidewalks holding handprints that weren't ours 
throwing rotten eggs into ditches because what else would we do with them and 
what else was there to do?
I filled a cracked bucket with jell-o and left it on your porch because 
I knew you'd know what I meant
you painted a face around the hole I punched through the wall because 
you knew I'd send a picture to my mom
we recited mournful monologues on the bruises in our bananas
we played pianos with our toes
we pinched the sun between our fingers
we were lost. we weren't alone.

FLUX (POEM) BY ALEXIS SIKORSKI/ INSTERSTELLAR ROMANCE (ALBUM) BY SEAN BURNETTE

1
this is the day before.
I kicked a sock off while I was sleeping.
stood by the door,
several doors,
and I did not leave the house.
 
2
it was the green shirt from yesterday
oversized load-
ing like this truck stopping traffic
in the dead of nowhere
when I expected to be going 
fast
 
3
there it is.
an expectation, rightly so--
but I can't help thinking if I blink
it'll disappear.
 
4
or I'll disappear.
employing cryptic coloration when
no one employs me.
but there it is.
so there I go.
so here I go.
go.
Go,
omg, GO.
 
5
this is the closest I'll get to no man's land,
and I'm proud to say I'm terribly impatient.
 
6
the song you'd play at 00:00
sunglasses and a scarf out the window but
you still have your breath
 
and a mission,
an appointment:
 
with the end of the world
and you're ready,
you're so ready

7
but now you don't know what to think.
I don't know what to think.
I don't know,
but maybe I'll
find
soon, I do.
if you do.
fucking threw off my plan, you did.
(as if I'd ever had one)
 
8
God, 
I'm acting like a stereotype.
if I'm the thinker,
I'd better get going now.
 
9
it's best to travel with strangers--
they're not strangers by the end.
but then give it one week post-
and you'll be strangers again.
 
10
I don't know how to work a pay phone
but I'm out of service
and so is my ride.
 
can't talk, 
 
11
was hanging off the back of a bus.
am I supposed to be stability?
this land is at too much of a slant.
like, I'm rolling down this hill right now;
he said he'd meet me at the bottom.
 
12
but did he?
it was like when this kid said I couldn't climb,
so I went up the tree in his backyard
and bridged it over to the roof.
I sat up there all day until he
walked out with his sister.
I hit him in the head with at least
forty-five acorns.
 
13
I rolled down then too,
but this time I didn't
break my arm.
I somewhat resemble juggled
fruit, however.
 
14
nope, you're wrong.
I'm not good at staying
put.
where am I even going?
 
15
gravity hurts.
I'm not getting any closer.
I don't know what you look like anymore.
maybe I should cut my hair.
it's where I carry my stress.
 
16
it wasn't long enough to donate.
 
my flip-flop broke 
so I threw it out the car 
window into a ditch.
you didn't know my name.
but for a week there,
I was really good at running.
 
17
shit's getting weird.
a rabbit ran between my legs.
maybe I should've downloaded that gps.
 
I'm holding my keys between my knuckles.
 
a plastic cutout of an explosive device 
hangs from my palm
"I'm the bomb"
 
18
so the power's out,
but only on the right.
chill, it's just like that boathouse behind the meridian center--
keep your head down and your peripherals open,
and you'll be fine
even if you're alone
and a little lonely.
 
I found a hermit crab in a seashell.
it didn't pinch me.
 
19
this guy really has an agenda against trains.
like, a crazy-ex-boyfriend-bordering-on-
crime-of-passion agenda.
he makes really good mac & cheese out
of the back of his pickup though,
so it balances out.
 
there's a streetlamp over the hill--
 
20
nope, it was a neighborhood 
watch guy with a flood-
light.
I proved I wasn't a hooligan with 
my high school transcript.
damn university wouldn't accept
an unofficial copy
and I'd never taken it out of my
pants pocket.
 
21
I am underwater.
I am everything.
I have it all.
 
my hands--
 
22
they almost got me to stay.
that's all I'll say.
 
you'd think a place called 
paradise would have more 
porch swings.
 
23
do not park your car
in Austin, Texas.
no matter what you do 
you're wrong.
 
24
a dreaming dog.
the way their legs kick;
the way I'm kicking myself rn.
bought a phony ticket.
face down on the airport tile.
 
25
in sync.
two toothbrushes by the sink.
we can't seem to sink.
we.
ha, wow--
we.
 
26
but then again, everything always does seem to fall apart.
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Alexis Diano Sikorski is a polyamorous half-Filipino. She likes dogs, looking out of windows on airplanes, and caffeine. She is really bad at wrapping presents. She was probably a sailor in a past life.
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Sean Burnette/Space Boy is an astronomy major and music-maker in Gainesville, FL.
He has a rad telescope.
Ask him about the absurd.  
Don't ask him about astrology. 
https://space-boy.bandcamp.com/
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