7 Poems from Manic

by Pippin Lapish

4/24/23

The morning of
4/24/23
My poop
Looked like cat food
Shredded giblets
My friends child
Was born
Sascha said
          Don’t send
          Any steaming shit
          Poems
Ok
I kept snoozing
My alarm
To extend
My dream
In which
I raced
And won
And stood
At a sink
Like an artist

This Morning

My poop
         Was charcoal
Black
         And fuzzy
Like dandelion seeds
Dipped
Throat-tar
I am leaking oil
         And genius
I am
Invincible.

4/25/23

I dreamt
There was
An author
Too tall
For his bed
Who wrote
Stories
About
Grieving bunnies
It was Mother’s Day
We were
In Europe
Which was
A ship
Looking for
A good coffee
Which was
Impossible
My dad
Kept hounding me
To get ready, get ready
Arrange my
Wig
And paint myself
Pink
But I was
Busy
Looking for
A spot
To read
Eileen Myles
Said
         It’s so manly
         To visit
         This Great Man
         Dying.
         Because who
         Would the
         Great Woman
         Even be.
I was
The Great Man
Writer,
The too-tall
Tortured-teased awake
Bunny grieving
Author but
I was also
         The Great Woman
The pink-skinned
Blonde she-demon
That crawled up
From soil
Fertilized
With Jesus’s blood
At Calvary Hill
Then I
Woke up
And drank coffee
For real
And read
I am
The bare minimum
Like septic safe
Toilet paper
O Young shitter
Young warrior
Young sunburnt
Genius crapper
On the throne.
O Young
Turd
Herder
Of
Poetry.

TATTOO I

I watch the
Little cannula
Wand
Motorized
Gauze-wrapped
Gun
Working
Lapping
Like a thirsty
Horse tongue
We talked
About
Microscopic
Blood
Droplets
And mone
She said
         I don’t just
         Want my designs
         On rich kids
The cash
In my pocket
Was stinging
Me

MANIC IX‍

I ate
A poop
Noodle
For breakfast.
I don’t want
To think about
Suicide
But where
To place
This
Agitation.
My professor
Said that
When his buddy
Did crack
He was
Capable
Of anything
For about
Twenty
Minutes

4/26/23

Well if there is
A word
For one
There is
A word
For that,
Too
Imagine: a
Prickled
Orange
Turd
That I thought
About
As I read
The Iliad
Chomping
On wild
Celery
My coworkers
Listen to
an AI DJ
Talk about
The death of
Harry Belafonte
I chew
On plastic
Clip my
Speech
Split my
Grin
Make it
Big

I’M TAKING MY MEDS TODAY

It’s chillier out today

I hear hooting doves
The cats rest
On the window sill

The world needs protection
I will protect the world
From me

I did my hair different
I’m wearing the pants Sascha got me
New deodorant

Brand new

She says
You can take a pill
That’ll make you nicer
And you don’t
take it

But today
I did