Thursday, August 24, 2023

GAS Featured Artist: Jeff Taylor



Jeff Taylor lives with his wife and kids in Massachusetts where he is a union worker when he isn’t writing poems. Jeff has performed at universities, theaters, festivals, bars, coffee houses, and sidewalks across the east coast and is a member of the 2023 Lizard Lounge Slam Team. You can find his work in recent issues of The Bloodshed Review, BOMBFIRE, Oddball Magazine, Cajun Mutt, The Alien Buddha Get’s A Real Job vol.2, American Graveyard (Read or Green Books), and The New Generation Beats 2023 Anthology.



Tobacco & Hash



Jenn was a professional drunk

got killed by a rookie.



What a crap career is that anyway?



When Jenn & I were in Florida

we paid too much 

for a joint of tobacco and hash



the spliff got too wet to smoke

as we rain danced on the pier

cyclones twisting around us.



She overcame addiction

only to have her life ended

by someone who 

wasn’t there yet.



I like to think 

the woman

who caused the accident

was Jenn’s soulmate



they lived thousands of lives together

through thousands of universes 

weaving the possibilities

of two beings colliding.



The roar of this life 

reduced to the moment 

they floated toward each other

locking eyes before everything went black.



Jenn once told me

she wanted all her friends

to smoke her ashes

so we wouldn’t make 

the same mistakes she did.



What if we all smoked 

our dead friends' ashes?



Would there be an energy transference

reverberating across generations

raising our collective consciousness 

to new levels of possibility?



Would we take on the weight

of each other's lives?




Reduced To Art


I

build

towers

to watch you

ride horses

through our bed



I will

guild frames

for the pictures

of you

painted

on the inside

of my skin


I am raw for you







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