Brian Alan Ellis

Bad Poet: Poems Brian Alan Ellis

100 BAD POEMS ABOUT the pursuit of empty validation ? waiting tables at restaurants ? astrology ? Brie Larson ? love ? flip phones ? death ? Carly Rae Jepsen ? therapy ? half-eaten bowls of refrigerated breakfast cereal ? blood ? sugar ? sex ? magic ? what to do when confronting dead squirrels on the sidewalk ? prison pen pals ? Netflix ? goths ? professional wrestling ? Danzig ? Twitter ? the "I'm no Superman" part from the theme song to the hit TV show Scrubs ? loneliness ? compulsively repeating the phrase "nightmare person" while self-reflecting in the shower ? smoking weed laced with dog hair ? childhood trauma ? junk food ? spiritually identifying as the Pigeon Lady from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ? anxiety ? Facebook ? creepily stalking 7-Eleven parking lots at night while wearing a trench coat and drinking a Slurpee ? Uber ? nightmares where you're just watching TV with your stepdad ? social distancing ? ageing ? substance abuse problems ? the latest version of Microsoft Office ? slow motion videos of trust falls gone horribly wrong ? semi-shitty bicycles ? tearing up during the cornier Rocky movies ? chasing Jell-O shots with warm cans of PBR on the fourth of July ? severely depressed giraffes ? wet dreams about being mauled by dogs at Toys 'R Us ? smiling knowingly while getting buried under burning piles of trash AND SO MUCH MORE!