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    I Love You Is Back
    I Love You Is Back
    I Love You Is Back
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    I Love You Is Back

    By Derrick Brown

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    I Love You Is Back is the second collection of work from this internationally celebrated poet, spanning 2004-2006. It includes such popular works such as ‘The Victory Explosions,†“All Distortion, All the Time,†“St. Marks,†and “The Last Poem about Anne Sexton.â€

    I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and revelatory - here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent. -Janet Fitch, Author of White Oleander

    A wit as sharp as Sedaris, a sensibility as poignant as Sexton, Brown manages to blur the lines between poet and cult writer with remarkable ease and grace. - Anthem Magazine

    Derrick Brown is one of the greatest contemporary poets. Done. I always keep him on my radar. -Sage Francis, Hip-Hop Artist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWrite Bloody Publishing
    Release dateAug 13, 2010
    ISBN9781935904359
    I Love You Is Back
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    Derrick Brown

    DERRICK c. BROWN is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call "...one of the best independent presses in the country", Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author of four books of poetry

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      Book preview

      I Love You Is Back - Derrick Brown

      I Love You Is Back

      a collection of poems 2004 - 2006

      by Derrick C. Brown

      Write Bloody Publishing

      America’s Independent Press

      Long Beach, CA

      writebloody.com

      Copyright © Derrick C. Brown 2006, 2012

      No part of this book may be used or performed without written consent from the author, if living, except for critical articles or reviews.

      Brown, Derrick C.

      2nd edition.

      ISBN:978-1-935904-35-9

      Interior Layout by Lea C. Deschenes

      Cover Designed by Matt Maust

      Type set in Bergamo from www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com

      Printed in Tennessee, USA

      Write Bloody Publishing

      Long Beach, CA

      Support Independent Presses

      writebloody.com

      To contact the author, send an email to writebloody@gmail.com

      MADE IN THE USA

      Other Books by Derrick C. Brown

      Strange Light

      Workin’ Mime to Five

      Scandalabra

      I Love You Is Back

      Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife

      Amalgamation (with Blaine Fontana)

      Children’s Books

      Valentine The Porcupine Dances Funny

      I Looooove You, Whale!

      Hot Hands and Ralph in... The Weirdo Winter

      To all the ones wondering if they are actually writers,

      the wondering says you already are.

      The details you noticed say you always were.

      Rewriting, questioning and kicking in doors means

      you’ll be good.

      —D

      I Love You Is Back

      One must pass through

      life, red or blue, quite

      naked, with the music

      of the subtle sinner,

      at all times ready to

      party.

      Only those who contemplate

      the constellations

      can still move us.

      —Francis Picabia

      Author’s Note

      I was walking through a late New York City weeknight with acclaimed poet Mike McGee. We had been dancing ridiculously with the brilliant poets of the Bowery Poetry Club and The Louder Arts lushes from Bar 13. We were in the mood. You know that feeling, when no one leaves the party early, no wallflowers are blooming, the wild dancing that escalates into prime morning conversation embarrassment.

      Mike and I began officially wandering the streets after the sweat-fest. I love wandering…when I have money to get home. That night I had some. I think we were in the Lower East Side. We found some graffiti. We stared at it until booze tears welled up a little. He took a photo of it. It became the title of this book. You should make someones day by posting the phrase somewhere.

      Here’s to not getting caught, here’s to writing like you’re possessed, here’s to you being nuts.

      —D.

      All Distortion, All the Time

      Someone plug my lungs back into the guitar amps!

      I want to live

      on all distortion, all the time.

      More overdrive!

      Aren’t you sick of being appraised as just wholesale?

      Aren’t you sick of sailing on listing ships?

      Aren’t you weary from playing cellos with ex-lover’s bones?

      I want the butterfly brigade to grant me a year

      with no stomach problems.

      I want to affix the word un-blame in the dictionary.

      I want a piano that will not warp outdoors

      when the rain demands slow dancing.

      I want to skew the difference between Tai Chi and Chai tea,

      and end up drinking a tall glass of your graceful force.

      I want to lick my hands after I touch someone that has just become

      razzle dazzled.

      I want birds to come close enough to hear them speak Aviation Spanish.

      Abierto, abierto.

      I want your record collection in my throat,

      and my thumb in the electric ass of this all night jukebox.

      I want my shoulder blades mounted

      in the museum of beautiful knives.

      I want church in a bar and a bar in every church.

      I want to pass out and hear you say Amen with your body.

      I want a skeleton night light in the closet.

      I want your wow in my now so we become NWOW.

      I want free shit to not cost anything.

      I want you to feel like a disco ball of fish hooks

      so you can hang on my words and I can spin in your small miracles of light.

      I want my kitchen to be a Brazilian dance floor

      with a pot of your sweat in the oven

      and a fridge stocked with booty lust.

      I want new sheets. Everyday.

      I want your silver muscles cut into a quilt. Let me sleep under your strength.

      I want more pony lamps. No reason.

      I want to sing this into all tail pipes until I’m exhausted of puns.

      I want to smell the everything.

      I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large,

      I feel stranded beneath it.

      When I gasp beneath it,

      I only want to gasp

      for more.

      Saint Mark’s

      The telephone wires must be down.

      You still haven’t called this winter.

      I decide to go to the church,

      the empty one

      that looks like it was struck by meteors.

      I see it from Highway 31, off the road a little bit.

      The roof has blown off of the Tennessee Assembly of God,

      formerly known as Saint Mark’s.

      I go in with a camera.

      I hope to replace some dated photographs in my home.

      The backdoor is unlocked and the carpets are flooded.

      Grass is clawing through the floorboards.

      Red plastic flowers on their side.

      There is a sycamore in the parking lot

      whose leaves will not let go.

      Fake stained glass decals and pews broken by axes of wind.

      Hymnals warped.

      There is a dove design

      on the hymnal. I once saw it on a shotgun barrel.

      There is a song in here calling for that lightning bolt,

      the one that is still trying to land on my fork.

      The window, there is a field, with no one to run to on the other side

      and no reason to return to the start.

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