full hearse

willy held up on the planet of the wangotrons
fireballs show off her fetching fan tan
smouldering fur cellar portal purring coal red cat
pockets intact her holes in her hands
daylight bullets from his pistol the visible man

solid titanium loverbot
paper doll elephants concertina the whole town down
tsaddiq the faithful one dealt a full hearse

in turn mister bones opens his door into out
fancy whippoorwill tarts à la mode de thighland
trolls off their food as the ten girl soup bickers
because I could not stop for lunch baked a famine
distend between stars emptiness the point of space

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Richard Magahiz has a day job working with computers, originally as a physicist but more recently as a software engineer. When it comes to music, food, or books his tastes are both eclectic and idiosyncratic. He spent a long time on the East Coast of the US but has come back to his native state of California. His work has appeared online at Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Failed Haiku, Live Encounters Poetry, Danse Macabre, otoliths, bones, and Eye to the Telescope. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/.

John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland. His seventh poetry collection, Visions at Templeglantine, was published by Revival Press in 2020. A chapbook of surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from Survision Books in 2019. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. His poem "The Green Owl" was awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007 for best single poem, and in that same year he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.