Math Is An Enlightened Demand

a crash solution
to light chaos
the neon pressure
in an evolution sun

the Turing Machine
a forgiveness experiment
a genius worth more than
the world’s too late
apology malfunction

Our First Identity In This Life Thing

is only a
reference human 
an unwilling start
crude branched frame
and weight meeting
cheap electric
jumpstarted by
our parents
wired in meaning

we are then
augmented by
data/facts/candor
coded with expression
and empathy fusing
an upright spine
given the power
to outrun our
original primitive
rendition

Too Soon Children Learn The Cadence Of A Forked Tongue

whistle of heat
as hands just miss
encased in arms
the rest of the body
forced to grasp flight

paulie lipman is a jewish queer poet, performer, and novelist out of Denver, CO by way of too many damn places. a two time national poetry slam finalist, their work has appeared in The Emerson Review, voicemail poems, ellipsis, Prisma: Zeitblatt Fur Text & Sprache (Germany), and Protimluv (Czech Republic). they are the author of the poetry collections “from below/denied the light” and the upcoming “sad bastard soundtrack: songs of faith and distortion” (Swimming With Elephants Publications).