NICE FOR DRAKE
he is project
dancer he is
the ideology everywhere
he is the present and
immediately meme
-able
and I just scatter to his
center like a little hair
patch on his chest
every pore
is sky
-shaped
kinetic
eruptions
for the state
is the state
I’m in patriot flash little sparkler ones
in the night
rocket bursts of
red on red
sandstone
we await the technicolor
arrival from another
world
up on jackson st
where the wind w/ its
soft project
rings
those chimes
w/ precious songs of everlong
but it’s the breakdown drake gets
wrong when
I’m bikin
sometimes to like him is
a summer
drag man a blown jug
thou
nag on
now it’s july
the colorado’s so low so
skin-close & rivermud mulatto
like me
I could
quit
my day job
kinda crack the brown time
egg of my last
life
&
I could reach you
man
in
yr
solace
we got
the riddle house in
common
you got
hand signs & this whole
mad row of oreos
think you can get to me w/ that
kinda james bond
charm you got
goin on
don’t you
get it
you
are
my
hot
guy conun
-drum
my piece
&
my hit
now carom some
original question
off me
meme that unrepeatable
hard & weight of
you on me
snor
-kel yr speckled shoulder
down on me
atlantic that graffiti
writ large
on me
split
yr infinities
w/ me
Born in Utah to Caribbean parents, Matthew A. Jonassaint now lives in Moab, where works in youth education, hosts the open mic Desert Howls, and types on a red 1927 Royal. His poems have appeared in glitterMOB and Willawaw, and locally in peculiar and Pillars of Salt. His current project is a series called An American In Cádiz.
