Liam Strong

Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cripple punk writer and photographer who owns two Squishmallows, three Buddhas, a VHS of Cats The Musical, and somewhere between four and eight jean jackets. They are the author of the chapbook Everyone's Left the Hometown Show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Find them on Instagram/Twitter: @beanbie666.  https://linktr.ee/liamstrong666

Easy read of the poems in the images above:

evidence of limping corpse: alive

one leg longer than the other. devil.

scholl’s inserts frayed like morgues. devil.

cartilage sling where one digit gets lost avoiding contact with sidewalks, space between hallux & long toe enough to name nebulae, enough to determine genetic isolation. devil.

digits on verge of subtraction, negative numbers on the spine of the horizon. devil. 

new species, hybrid marrow, innerworkings a defunct practice, as in no one practically, disorder where there are no rules. devil. 

ungulate. devil.

baggage of ribs, non-flesh, less than flesh, flesh antithesis, antonyms grafted onto efficient axles. devil.

inability to pay total amount after insurance. devil.

an angel even when blood is taken from the arm rife with tattoo. devil.

violent tendency for right meniscus to fail, bent on structural collapse, life expectancy while in captivity predicted to be lower, enemy to american healthcare system by dint of presence alone. devil.

polyneuropathic nerve damage, such that in certain regions pain cannot be felt, let alone experienced, or perhaps empathized. devil.

autonomic intolerance, weakness as a core strength, division of feeling between what can be seen, what cannot, what legally cannot be felt, & what can be wished. devil.

veins noted as snakes slithering, pain treated with more pain, momentary moments of normalcy. devil. 

subject does not seem to give a shit. devil.

curvature

(in the image above, the poem slopes downward from the upper-right to the lower-left side of the page.)

facet function 

there is more than bone between bone

generations of hammers

paradox of mountains sistered from erosion

numb lightning

dystrophy as an unlikely prize horse

axis 

a week with the incorrect amount of names

the weather chemical

fibers who articulate movement between locations & dislocations

cruciate ligaments where crucifixion was once a constructed spine

flexibility wants to be breaking & or vice versa

all instability is procedural