dormammu ive come 2 bargain by Liam Burke

i could just stay here
gather green trichomes
let inertia have its way
collate colonies of moss
mash every button
to escape the command-
grab of coming of age
i have many tokens to barter
lipsnot mouse skulls
yellow plastic my least favourite
action figure pages stuck
together at the back of the magazine
o do i have to gro up
renounce jewl cases
and card stock comics
smokey bureaus
can i stay a child
sick against the glo
of the cathode ray
close enough to feel
the static pull me
apart scatter my
electrons so i see every
phosphor dot every
dialogue tree every
neural clique
flatten and collapse
my whole timeline
against this moment
against this light this
light this light this light
Liam Burke (@liamjmburke) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. He is most recently the co-author of 'machine dreams' with natalie hanna (collusion books, 2021) and ‘Orbital Cultivation’ with Manahil Bandukwala (2x4, forthcoming). His work has most recently appeared in Savant-Garde, the Jupiter Review, and long con magazine.”