Skip to main content
Poetry

Ian Schoultz

By February 9th, 2022No Comments

bronze age collapse

 

bronze age collapse

 

sorry

our profiles went mostly underreported. away. objects against nothing, so nothing then. i want you to know that i’m sleeping again and i think i’ve come to accept the encompassing tide. i’ll dream against you. i’m always against you.

sorry

can we say for sure? who was first, whose first, the first to give, to give way? movement became an apology at the edge of speech. i ran through the rain because i wanted to be convinced of my mania. when i said i can’t harness my body. i meant i can feel it.

PSA over the radio on US-23

spring is boiling / bedrock atmosphere eye drops / naturally occurring someone / in your life could already be affected / and any amount circulated is too much / capacity 2 moons certified / inspections to prevent further wholes / fault lines / spills and kills / curves / contours / air gown wanting / an open mine / suck the clouds / full cheek room / temperature a range of states / ok i’m high on love mapping my self revolution / someone in your life has a radon detector / prevent more occurring naturally / radon has no smell no color no cult of personality / a leading cause over the membrane / it’s just the body you are building / parts per million / a public institution with a clinical disorder so / wow i’m a beautiful / peripheral abundance / on a list of findings / cells late to the party / what can i do to protect my / rising / body slow in some rooms / likeness is a nice place to check your safety systems / inside formation / i’m a moon in half / life / for further findings / what services are necessary

 

“bronze age collapse,” (“and he opened his mouth…”) borrows lines and material from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sam Raimi’s Spider-man (2002), The Gettysburg Address, and the Sermon on the Mount from the Book of Matthew (King James Version). The specific verses are Matthew 5:2, Matthew 5:7, Matthew 5:17, Matthew 5:29, Matthew 5:30, Matthew 5:48, Matthew 6:8, Matthew 6:25.

 

 

Ian Schoultz‘s poems have appeared in Landlocked, Always Crashing, Burning House, and the tiny. He lives with his 3-year-old black lab, Gabriel, in Baton Rouge, LA.