Friday, July 15, 2011

Brave Boy (New York Post)


Brave Boy

Play nice, kids.
The big bad boy
The tragic boy
Head to head

Fight for life
One day
the long road may end.

The ultimate sexual experience
Show me
How your tree bears fruit.
Sex on demand.

He's a traveling time bomb
One day turning into tragedy.
His peace has come.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Promises, Promises (The New Yorker, Glamour, Cosmo) Behind the Scenes with Jess Schneider: The Making of a Collage Poem

Check check check it out.
Here's a look at what goes into making a collage poem.

FINAL PRODUCT:

Promises, Promises

Salvage what you have left.
Love, loss, longing
Beauty, beauty.
The naked and the dead
Hiding in plain sight.

The nightmare I couldn't have,
Gods and dolls
Dead in the water,
Simply naked
Completely living.

Save us.

Wild child and bad girl sex
Big ideas,
Confessions,
Discoveries,
Secrets.
A daughter's revolution.

What's sexy now?
Admit it, you're a
troubled paradise.

Free yourself.

Close ups:


  

Monday, June 6, 2011

Nourished Tip (made from Garnier Fructis hair color instructions)


Nourished Tip

Your body
Your eyes
Stinging sensation
Poison into pressure
Your skin may burst.

Place your fingertip over
These darkest areas.
Gently massage
Gently to provide best penetration.
Keep in mind
Your skin may burst.

Time is up.
You leave as usual.
The water runs clear
With the same shade.

You never change.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

The New Yorker (made from my rejection email from the editors of the New Yorker)


The New Yorker

We are the editors.
Consider us.

Carry your regret,
Your warmest regret.
Consider the oppertunity
We are unable to regard.
Consider us.

Consider us
And the regret,
the regards,
the work,
the oppertunity,
and the giving
and giving and giving.
Consider us.

Thank you for giving us
The regret we carry.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mom (made from Mother's Day cards)


Mom

A mother's love
So beautiful
So peaceful
A mother's heart
A world filled with
blessings
beautiful moments
and bright thoughts.

This day is for you
For your smile
It's your day
to know you're celebrated.

A beautiful day for
thinking of you
and telling you
how much it means
to have you.

it's the perfect time
for both of us
to enjoy every little moment.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

No one is there. (SUNY Purchase Lit Society's publication: The Leaf Unturned)


No one is there.
a hollow town.
shadows scattered
Cage The Animals
drunk beautiful boys
safely kept
lost in me.

smashed roses
between your legs
I want to taste your skin
to be fucked
birds and the bees
hollow me out
how low
can my dignity go

fingers split your
shaking hands
slipping down
his hollow chest;
No one is there
he loved to feel nothing.

the cold and quick exit,
throat sore,
mouth dry.
His eyes fluorescent 
and dead seeming.
my body stands
a wilderness
frozen in a tangling kiss

we fucked to feel something
and there is nothing in return.
No one is there.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Wishing (Greeting Cards)


Wishing

Keep wishing on stars.
You're more wondrous than you know.

Celebrate this new beginning
that will bring all that you are hoping for
and dreaming of.

Hope will come to us like the rain,
that waters the earth with peace.
May the peace be with you
and guide you always.
Enjoy your journey
In every way.

Fill your heart with your dream.
It will find you.
Every dream will be found.

Have a wonderful
memorable
beautiful
life.