3 poems - Chad Parenteau

IRL

My cyberflirtatuousness 
advertises the smoothness
of granite milkshakes
more roughage to mix in
before we are done

You keep church rounds
i follow with confessions 
answering new questions
sans curtain metal screen

The truth is not my friend
answers begetting more 
need for a different face
now that you've seen this one

You tease me for using periods
say they mark quick words
like curt shushes of librarians
i talk more open-endedly
less finality for now



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Dorchester Debutante 
Texts Conspiracies

Hole condo got fined
4 one guys trash?
Bullshit cop upstairs
ratted on us 4 immunity

Breaks down a shed and
leave it out front like
a body and gives us the rap 

Fucking bullshit!!!
Im moving it out of here
because no one will

our neighbors a real shit
in faggity teal shirts
in the yard on weekends

The neighbors complained
and I know who
but everyone h8ts him

Let's schedule a mtg
2 go over this prepare
4 yelling if noone shows

Lets do a recon
while piggys checking in
4 his night shift

Omg i just drove by
a big empty dumpster
perfect 4 body stash IRL

Recon after dark?
Ill drive u there
if u touch stuff



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Ditko's Day

Wake up, walk kitchen
measure cereal box,
empty next shopping day,
last month's pages 
as table mat.

Kitchen, bedroom, bathroom
no more than once, planning
eye’s path to drawing table,
composed as splash page.

Visit Kirby cove, 
whisper it's too late, 
take business card.
use marker, blot half-black. 
Hold white side to hand back.

Go home, stare out 
window till night
fall. Spider-Man musical 
next door.

Put on white suit,
find backstage, sneak
up scaffolding, each step 
no trick. Peer over, 

watch unearned star’s
inevitable misstep. Witness 
his fall from grace.