Bob Kotyk


BEING ON BLUE

Internal
Now
Survival cats
Half
Shrinking
In these
Relationships
Among
Amenable
Eschewing
River
Zing
Characteristics
Or senior
Sharp
Sand 
Plans
Pushing
All forward
In the
Narrows
All forward
In the
Neighbourhood
All forward
Being on
Blue
With you
And
You
After all
We’ve been
Through



MERX

Inward violence
At the
Mega
Dance
That honey
Running
Snow
In a
Red flower
Trance
Turning
Seven billion
Dolour
Wishes
The courage
Gulf
The rhizome
Dance
Prompting
Felicitations
From
The under-
Thumb
It’s their
Loss



LENIN WILL BE THERE

Sitting
Without
Meeting
Feeling
Sweat stares
Breathing
Years
Radiation
Before
The world
Garbage
Rise
Yawn
Syntax
Foundation
Martyr
Sea
To
Stunted
Sea
A
Working
Class hero
Is something
To
Be

Bob Kotyk is a writer and filmmaker living in Toronto. He co-wrote the screenplay for Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. His poetry appeared in Otoliths issue 61.

 
 

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