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A s W e A l l C h a n g eb y W y a t t S p a r k s
p h o t o g r a p h y b y
K a t e E r i c k s o n
l o v e s y m b o lp r e s s 2 0 1 3
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PRELUDE CHAOSPART 1 INCESTSPART 2 LOVE LOVEPART 3 CATALOG OF TREESPART 4 AS WE ALL CHANGE
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and I wasn’t there and you weren’t there and everyone we talk aboutwasn’t there either
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AS
WE
ALL
CHA
NGE
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First the cosmos was swung by an old man in a paintingon a used globe from a library and that's how it all lookedCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOS
CHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOS
CHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOS
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CHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOS
CHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOSCHAOS begins to assume a formand it looks like a couple
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Pt. 1 INCESTS
THE SECOND CREATIONIf we were the last two humanswe could finally be devoutand say things about killing ourselves
if the other one of us diedand finally mean it.
If we were the last two humanswe would throw rocks over our shoulders for the heck of itand they would become softer and softeruntil they turned into our children.
If we were the last two humanswe would end up fucking our familydon’t lie you know it would happen
it happens in every story like this.
If we were the last two humanswe would float to a mountain on a raftand drink the water that killed all the humans and all the animals
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If we were the last two humanswe would live in the swamp.New creatures would grow from the heat of the puddlesand years after everyone in school would say it never happened.
If we were the last two humansI would break my teethso that you’d have something pretty to wear.
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TO THE MANWHO KNOWS EVERYTHING
this is where the snow comes from
from all the hearts
and whether lighting is the byproduct of bad love
or other hidden things
that keep the northwest’s bright beacons
from flying away from us
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WHERE THEY AREif I look at the birdsthen they look like magicbirds are hard to photographAnything that’s hard to capture is magic clouds are magiccats, love
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All the good radio sunday nightit’s almost impossible to match neon with neon old neon with new neonthis is paradiseif you’ve never been happy
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TO THE MANWHO HAS EVERYTHING
jump into the river
dive deeper into the water
grow a beard
cut your hair
become a druid
get a set of pipes
and some decency
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THREEONES
her poem of endings
loose in the night
of incests
watch her angry
the old woman puts
a hand on each of their wrists
and pulls them together
into a kiss where she promptly
vomits and then smiles
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NARCISSUStell himto never learn anything about himselfit is too dangerous there
and twice as beautiful
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NARCISSUS (2)then looking for himselfhe drowns in the waterand these events are unconnectedexcept by theme.he is so stupid he can’t see it
we all see it but we can’t help. but we still scream like children would
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Here is a letter,
a baby is telling meto sleep with you.
You are magnetic really.
I am in a frenzy.
I will chase you nakeduntil you dieit’s that simple
Pt. 2 LOVE LOVE
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you are wealthier thanseventy five percent of the world you are wealthier than other girls in India you are wealthier
and i am in lovewith the things you saythat speak to that
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ACHILLES’ MOM IS A MILF in a neon paintingcrush velvet you see her3/5th's of the way in the water
naked riding a dolphin
you promptly buy the paintingand hold it in front of youas you leave the thrift storehiding the erection
the sea woman has caused
you wait til midnightand then you bring the paintingout of your bedroom and hang it up
near the kitchen tableand it is so dark her nipples seem three dimensionaland the sunset looks like an actual photograph ofhawaii under blacklights
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ORACLES of DQ
because they are sistersthey each sharea part of each otherthis item starts as something trivialthey have a charm braceletbut it becomes bigger all the timenow they are trading each other's men
because they are sisters they eattheir meals togetherbut only the amount of a single person
they spend so much time togetherthat they began to instinctively know which of themis the most beautifuland which is the next most beautiful
and which is disgusting and hard to look at
they spend so much time togetherthat this becomes obvious even to the people whofirst meet them
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it wasn't always like this
they looked like three lovely young girlsbut now they are hard to be around
everyone saysthe one is so ugly
the other is so prettyand the middle one is invisible between them
which one is the worst?it is hard to tell
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there is a beautiful lady with horns
she looks downmaybe because she is tiredor distracted by someone under her(this lady is you btw)I'm attracted to the horns
I want to go into her hairand feel the spots wherethey extend off the skullto feel the place whereshe becomes different from me
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his lightning bolt is so bigit is ten incheseveryone gawks at it if he ever takes it outin publicand no one calls the policebecause they forget the word police existsshe asks for it like his wife gets itbut it hurts so muchshe thinks she will dieand maybe she does in some ways
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Pt. 3 A CATALOG OF TREES
up in the ravinesin the lonely placesshe hides from the ones like herit is so easy to forget that
you are a bear nowinstead of a little beautiful girl
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once a woman,she changed little boys into fishuntil something new and unexpected
now there is a scaly thingthat swims through the little pool
in the sun
no one can get her out using the net(no one really tries either)
everyone admits she is lovely and scaryso the daughters agree to keep her therein secretright where she is
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MORPHEUSPHOBETOR
PHANTASAS
He could remove his wingsand be any personflipping his face
like a lidand back again into a shadow
*
He was for the fourlegs of the wild thingsin the woodsSo he could never love a woman
*
he is a personhe is a personand all the rocks soiland tree trunks
could be anything without a mind
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MEDUSA THE FRIENDWhen you are not too tired you come to the door of snakesand it’s obvious she has been crying but hides it well under more snakes and rust
you test her, tell her any old thing
to see if she’ll do it she says she won’t but of course she doescrying the whole way,slithering through the daylight
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if she cannot have one let her be oneis what he said
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THE ECHINADES
John and Matt walked into an ugly swamp(but at this point it was vibrant and unchanged)they found it could be dry and heartless still.cracking the doors of each houseup and down the stairsthey couldn't find anyone, even thoughthey knew they were there.Matt heard the laughter behind the closet doorsbut was to afraid or embarrassed to open themblushed violet
On the rough side of town
(we know these thingssimply because of the amountof dogs barking
of broken bottles splayed on the street)
a timid couple eats barkbecause they have nothing elseand they love the taste of the dregs
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they invite John and Matt in
the old man picks up his wifeand puts her hips on the counter for himshe opens upinch by inch like a clockthis is their great gift two the young mensmall joy hidden townand the two men take notesbecause one day they toohope to live in a little shackand please a women as beautifulfor as long as the old man
they love the things he can do withhis tongue as much as the old woman doeseveryone is close to climaxingin the little room
then they reveal they are gods
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ARACHNE
She's all bellyit becomes the nucleusshe loses her ears nose and hairto a spot under the neckher head attaches
to the giant bellyand then it's all shrinkingshe's a spider now stupidscream as she crawlson the ground towards you
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APOLLO AND THE PYTHONHe has the body of acresHe has the two arms and the curve thatwill kill the body of acres.
When he dies he will spread into another hundred versionsof the same storyand you will look at my penislike it’s a little more evil
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first he kills the girlhe is too beautiful to hold her,he knows and she doesn’t
She hides her own body, for him thoughher hard bones with her voicelost in the woods between the hills
—later in America,
a trapper calls and a girl’s voice comes back to him but he can’t find the skeleton
it was just an echo
he tells himself
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AlasAlas
Fare well
Fare well
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Pt. 4 AS WE ALL CHANGE
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now they realize
they're deadand twist into sickfantasies of themselvesfor each other.putting things into their holes
they would have never thought ofhad they been alivebut they feel aliveit feels so goodwith each other
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THE HOUSE OFZZZZZZit's all very lucida bunch of knocked out kids and dogslining the walls and cornersin crumpled piles
so tiny they need to whisper bcthere are no roostersto wake them at the right timeblowing trumpetsdoesn’t blow a sound
they're afraid to wake himtheir main man, Sleepcapital Smiddle pilewith endlessly slid back down eyelids
and the millions of dreamsthat trace around himlike the piouswithout secrets
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he's all one woundhe collects the organs
like living gems, packing eachin grocery bags and replacingthemin their spotswhat will that make healing like?
his skin is brown and crusty every-whereuntil he is slick and strongshiny and taught like a scarhe is a scarbut he doesn’t complain
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And then I thought I was a graveand I thought I was a treeobviously I wasn’t either of those things I was the snowor at least in the snowFirst it started melting all around me
But it stopped it didn’t care anymoreand just kept resting upuntil no one could tell where I was
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And then I thoughtI was a volcanothat melted up all the snowmaking the bones move againmaybe I will be bones againbut I wasn’t
I was the snowwith the whiskey dogsthose lovable st bernardspounding around the alps looking for me
i ld b i t d d t d f d if b ith ll
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i could subsist on dew and teardrops for days. if you bury me, even with allthe sand at your disposal, someone will come for me, take me out of the
sand, and cover me up.
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No not a hundred eyesnot an eyeless headjust an overly eager smile rockinglegs off the cliffOn a mountain, waiting for a tune
for you to string the guitar and playsomething, or anything that you canCan you think of anything?
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being a slavefirst i go and dig a holethe size of a mani put myself in it
fill it up and slip awayso they think I was buried there
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Wyatt Sparks lives in Chicago. This is his first book.
Special thanks to Untoward for first publishing Achilles Mom is a Milf.