drowsy drugs no longer drowse me by Ed Go

drowsy drugs no longer drowse me

hush · issue 5

A poem titled drowsy drugs no longer drowse me by Ed Go. Text with alternating indentation: drowsy drugs no longer drowse me / i'm taken too much them now now / [indented] they work not in nor out me / looking for a slower pace space / [indented] that flats in me the grace to make / [indented] believe what's take & where receive / the token took that's by dark elves / & sprites forsaken / [indented] going round the munchberry tree / funkberry bush no dance for we / [indented] round & round weasel's wend / [indented] monkeygrind hellbent [wind] / 3 directions northbysouth / [indented] eastwestnorth&upsidedown / & last we wait them [my hands are moot] / numb&vibrate jellyfish / mold from bread & tongue of frog / flies by midnight & hogtied boar / butterfly & flying bloat / [indented] fat i grew from stomach sunken / smolder / bridge / cold&vibrate / red/blue/black—yellow/green / in between / [indented] douse me dowse me / full drum anchor / marchingband / flash by lightning / [indented] quicksand—

Ed Go

Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in MA, VA, AK, HI and CT. A former video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer, mystery shopper, and lead singer/guitar-player in a punk-folk band, Ed Go currently lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been published in various online and print journals and anthologies; his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id was published in 2014 by Other Rooms Press, and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards in 2016 by Urbantgarde Press.