Bob Kotyk


URUK VASE

Insipid
Kings of
Kitsch
Grand fork
Bonanza
Eat the 
Receipt
With steak
Knives
Showing
How are
You
Honey
Smile pulled
Taut
Friendly size
Underneath
No border
Left
Outside
Quite different
From the
Truth
I know
It’s been
A few years
But
Let’s open
The smashed
Jewel
Boxes
And listen to
The sound
Of
This sweeping
Smelting
Cold
Brand
Returning
Magnet
Mirror
Grief
Deluge
Hear me
Hear them
Why
Couldn’t we
See
It



SPEEDWAY

Didn’t
Think to think
I was
On two
Legs somewhere
On foot
Somewhere
Sixteen years
I used to be
A comic
Image father
A footman for the
Duke of Windsor
Some time
In the
Prosthetics closet
Digging
Dung fuel
For a
Sidewalk lip
Paved over
The recipes
Took a trip
Portus
Cale
Fermented
Silence
Expropriated
With
Full compliance
A good 
Heart
In there
And a daughter
Somewhere
Our lady
Of wailing
Rumbles
Over a
Flat trail
Rat
Buried nearby
With a
Commemorative
Plaque
Some of the
People
Heard about
That

Bob Kotyk is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto. He co-wrote the screenplay for Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015.

 
 

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