NEVERS – angelo colavita

…never as cold as alone
…never as grievance as cowering
…never as erstwhile as while away
…never as milk as apology
…never as pointed as silent
…never as sentient as salient
…never as cause as roundabout
…never as hiccup as dying
…never as frogs-hop as toad-croak
…never as ordinary as chemical burn
…never as prescribed as diaries
…never as ocean as beginning
…never as lost as ocean
…never as poem as breathing
…never as cost as cat’s pajamas
…never as love as never
…never as sometimes
…never as nevermind
…never as fact as daydream
…never as bird as poem
…never as whole as posturing
…never as skinny minnie as loosie-goosie
…never as punk as monks and monkeys
…never as goth as a grandmother
…never as metal as hedge nettle
…never as entropy as dystrophy
…never as end as cluster
…never stars

Angelo Colavita is a nihilist and experimental poet living in Philadelphia, where he serves as Founding Editor of Empty Set Press and Associate Editor at Occulum Journal. He is the author of two chapbooks, Flowersonnets (2018) and Heroines (2017), with work forthcoming or appearing in Pigeon Anthology 2, Dream Pop Journal, Prolit Magazine, Breadcrumbs, Luna Luna Magazine, Yes Poetry, Be About It Zine, and elsewhere online and in print. Follow him on Twitter @angeloremipsum and on Instagram @angelocolavita   

Photo: Samuel Zeller