Luke Downes
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Just your ordinary half-drunk poet, coasting through life on a cocktail of bourbon, wit and oft-failed attempts at irony. If you order this at a bar, you have to down it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say.
Groups
Luke Downes is a member of All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Blue Room, Freedom In Words & Art, Graphic Scratch, The Word Tree and Up & Coming Writers.
Journal Entries
arrested development
Posted 9 months ago, 11 comments so far.
glimpses
Posted 9 months ago, 18 comments so far.
connection
Posted 10 months ago, 17 comments so far.
randomies
Posted 10 months ago, 20 comments so far.
Writing
Lila, Inside-out
1. Rotting apple. / Glorious, rotting, inside-out apple / for the beetles and birds / to get drunk on.
Coyote
I am still a scavenger / too anxious / to move in alone / for the grisly slaughter.
Don't Look Now
she has a handful / of secret hopes
Twenty-Two Feet
A snake, / twenty-two feet / of reptilian beauty,
Lazy Eye
i want to drive south into mexico to / sit on a warm beach, down cervezas / on the hood of my chevy
The Pomegranate Eaters
When we are having breakfast / your voice oscillates and I’d swear
