Chris Cortese - Writings

These writings are all from the period 1990 - 1994.
  1. Bottles
  2. Questions
  3. Difference
  4. Talking to Colorful People
  5. Last Breath
  6. Traffic
  7. Canadian Whiskey
  8. Radar Detector
  9. Breaking Squirrels
  10. Concise Comment on the Educational Process
  11. Tears
  12. 21
  13. Earth Girls
  14. Bird
  15. Party
  16. Wet Inspiration
  17. Safe Cooking
  18. In Hiding
  19. Blackout
  20. Drinking
  21. the Devil
  22. Mexican Beauty
  23. Spill
  24. Driving in a hotel room in Chicago
  25. Mara
  26. Any Change
  27. Indecision
  28. What to call a poem about the loss of a friend?
  29. Confrontation
  30. Time Management
  31. Conclusion
  32. Desert Daydream
  33. Near Death 
Bottles



here in the bar
bottles line the shelves.
I am in a bottle,
a bottled
eruption, a preserved
madness.
bottles foaming,
desire, saliva of dog
bottles of love,
bottles of something
unwanted
solutions of halfness,
poisonous, intoxicating
bottles of soul,
bottles of pain.
a view of the
shelf, barren,
uncaring.

a bottle drops
to the floor
CRASH
the spill of a new way
seeps into every crack.