Jared Sagar

Jared Sagar is a poet living in the United Kingdom. He is also an experimental composer releasing various albums across the world on various independent labels. His poetry has been published in Anthropocene, Poetry Salzburg, The Cannon's Mouth, Poetry Scotland amongst others.

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Ennui

rattles and sad-acts then freaks,

roof corroding ochre,

mother-soft sweet & sours

after the butchery of fauns,

the quick kodak flash.

Buttercup shot the dreamer

in his bed. his head rang

like a thousand gadgets

separating yolks from whites.

I cannot escape. all the world

loves a pronoun or so we

think. that ringmaster’s

subwoofy voice shakes

exaggerated columns. I

scratch my bare skin’s sense

of identity, inhale dismounts,

the end that he has not yet

touched. mute troupes chuck

a cold breeze of want over

us, but I don’t fall for the mask

or horses in love with

beautiful toxic air wafting

through, the unicycling stench

of child-sized acrobrats. I will

never bite a better tongue

than this. faces long as dole

queues wave off subtilities.

sweat-drenched elephants in

flagrante. lions citalopramed

in huddled sawdust. stilt stalkers

rupture mid-ritualistic

somnambulism. firetaster

crouching nude, who’s to say

what’s false or a hot snack.

Bubbles shmirs thirty dead

hamsters’ hearts in shame.

England laughs. the inefficiency

of humans, together, knowing

why but nothing more. I cannot

escape oh sweet bearded lady, I

cannot escape.

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