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The Moth: an Alter-Dream-Ego

By Gabriel Kruis @gabrielkruis ·

I made a Mt. out of milkweed.

 

I drink virgin Cranberry Redbull

on the rocks.

 

It’s a gentlemen’s drink.

 

I’ve shaved my head, tattooed

a spider web on my dome,

 

black widow on a thread

down my neck.

 

When I go out,

I dress in wife-beaters & silver Keds,

an ice-white Juicy suit with

                                                   BRIDE

 

in a rhinestoned arc across my ass.

Had my tailor pull the briding

in the in-seam out,

 

replaced them with snaps.

 

Now I rock my velour

like tear-away Starter pants.

 

My best friend’s name is Penny Slotz.

 

She sports a Lincoln face

between her eye-teeth in a copper grill.

 

We made our fortune selling knock-off

blacklight Flavin sculptures

 

to Ryan McGinness collectors

& other stoners.

 

I powder my beard with powdered drugs

& close hugs mean K-

 

holes for all my friends.

 

Thus,

I call myself THE MOTH.

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Gabriel Kruis

Originally from New Mexico, Gabriel Kruis now lives in Brooklyn. He colloborated on the SH*TLUCK reading series at the Tip Top Bar & Grill with the poet & BAMF, Caroline Gormley. He is a member of PeopleHerd & studied poetry at Hunter College. Watch for SH*TLUCK MACH*NE this fall.

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