{"id":2154,"date":"2007-09-25T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/three-poems-4\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:40:45","slug":"three-poems-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/three-poems-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">By Brandon Scott Gorrell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>butterfly apocalypse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>you said i don&#8217;t have a phone<\/p>\n<p>i told you to call me now<\/p>\n<p>you said i would call you if i had a phone<\/p>\n<p>i said i want to read the novel five times and then eat it<\/p>\n<p>you said things will happen<\/p>\n<p>i said just go underneath blankets and lay there<\/p>\n<p>you said i wish i would find someone like you where i am but i don&#8217;t think i will be able to so you should just come to me<\/p>\n<p>i said i wish i would find someone like you in my room right now<\/p>\n<p>i said that you were like a pillow<\/p>\n<p>you said that you wanted to be my pillow right now<\/p>\n<p>i said you&#8217;re horribly pretty<\/p>\n<p>you said you are so far away<\/p>\n<p>i said like thousands of miles<\/p>\n<p>you said i miss you<\/p>\n<p>i said i still exist<\/p>\n<p>i said you&#8217;re insane<\/p>\n<p>i said i wish you were here<\/p>\n<p>you said my mind was death<\/p>\n<p>i called you a park sleeper<\/p>\n<p>you called me a park murderer<\/p>\n<p>i said park death<\/p>\n<p>i said HORROR IN DEATH PARK<\/p>\n<p>i said i&#8217;m smoking<\/p>\n<p>i said do you find smoking attractive or unattractive, what should i do<\/p>\n<p>you said i find everything you do attractive<\/p>\n<p>i said you are nice<\/p>\n<p>i said i&#8217;m sending you a song and we will feel closer<\/p>\n<p>you said can this song play when we meet<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>giant destructive moth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>you said i&#8217;m gonna call you and leave a message<\/p>\n<p>you said don&#8217;t answer the phone when i call you<\/p>\n<p>you said let&#8217;s work up to that<\/p>\n<p>i said you could eat some of me if i was there<\/p>\n<p>i said i desire the whole picture of everything<\/p>\n<p>i said i want to be invisible<\/p>\n<p>you said i want to see you visibly<\/p>\n<p>i said if i could teleport to your room i would<\/p>\n<p>you asked me if i would scratch your mosquito bite for you<\/p>\n<p>i said if you wanted me to<\/p>\n<p>i said i can&#8217;t believe i&#8217;m experiencing internet social anxiety<\/p>\n<p>you said thank you for suffering for me<\/p>\n<p>i said long hair is nice to have fists in<\/p>\n<p>you said the internet fell asleep<\/p>\n<p>i said nothing happened<\/p>\n<p>i said i&#8217;m convinced that i can&#8217;t feel any type of happiness unless i already feel incredibly depressed<\/p>\n<p>you said i want to see your face<\/p>\n<p>i said i want to see your face<\/p>\n<p>you said i hate you<\/p>\n<p>you said so much<\/p>\n<p>i said i want to move into the internet<\/p>\n<p>you said lets do that<\/p>\n<p>i said where do you go in<\/p>\n<p>i asked if it had sun chips<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>if there were painkillers here i would eat them<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>you said you are infatuated with me<\/p>\n<p>i said it&#8217;s something<\/p>\n<p>you said you are infatuated with me<\/p>\n<p>i said it&#8217;s something<\/p>\n<p>you said i know<\/p>\n<p>i said i am sitting in the corner satisfied and depressed about you<\/p>\n<p>you said i know<\/p>\n<p>you said i want to feel your knee<\/p>\n<p>you said give me your knee<\/p>\n<p>you said give it to me<\/p>\n<p>i said our bond is strong, firm<\/p>\n<p>you said i like it<\/p>\n<p>i said you like it<\/p>\n<p>i said cars turn people into assholes<\/p>\n<p>i said i will skateboard over your body and say sorry and then say bye<\/p>\n<p>i said you will lay there<\/p>\n<p>you said you wounded me<\/p>\n<p>you said that&#8217;s what i would say<\/p>\n<p>i said i would touch you in a nice way and say hi<\/p>\n<p>you asked me if i would lick your face<\/p>\n<p>i said if it was appropriate<\/p>\n<p>i said i need a real life or i need you to be around me<\/p>\n<p>i said lately i have been feeling emotion for all humanity<\/p>\n<p>i said i think people are connecting with my earth-kill-human-love idea<\/p>\n<p>i said hello<\/p>\n<p>you asked if it was good that i said hello<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">i said i keep looking at pictures of my cats and feeling emotion at them<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brandonscott.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/brandonscott.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brandon-alien-fine.blogspot.com\/\">Brandon Scott Gorrell<\/a> has been published or is forthcoming in 3:AM, NANO Fiction, Dogmatika, Zygote in My Coffee, The Alchemy Review, and others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"solid black 1px\" align=\"right\" alt=\"brandonscott.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/brandonscott.thumbnail.JPG\" \/>i said i want to see your face <\/p>\n<p>you said i hate you <\/p>\n<p>you said so much <\/p>\n<p>i said i want to move into the internet <\/p>\n<p>you said lets do that <\/p>\n<p>i said where do you go in <\/p>\n<p>i asked if it had sun chips<\/p>\n<p>\nBy <b>Brandon Scott Gorrell<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}