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Poetry || Submissionsi still wish i could smell the dogwoodsby Greg Nixi still wish i could smell the dogwoodstrapped in office space while hendrix rolls on the speakers next to head last night i dreamt a thousand lives in succession in one i snorted a final line of coke visited ex love in harvard "going to be great scientist!" old love i said i crossed the continent where i lay in gutters of san francisco chewing the babble of poets but sober with no coke an image i don't recall then in newark i've never been in newark seemed to be an endless succession lives lies possibilities false starts right turns another old flame another tired discussion this time i am brilliant insightful historian i speak the disease i note the pathology this is culture a plane now a distant vision of land beneath i can taste the lights xenon and halogen my stomach is an aphrodisiac it is my vulture sometime in the morning i wake casual to the day a vision scent of old lost love & tastes of dogwood blossom regret and who has time for these mornings? least of all me shave shower shit smoke & in the car i stare at windshield myriad blue and brown which is the tobacco sheen that coats which road to take today which path matters least? engine turns over and. Greg Nix says 'I drink too much coffee and smoke too many damn cigarrettes. An ex told me I was stuck on the image of "writer". Its probably true.' This is his frist appearance at Ariga. Today's Situation
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