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 10 months ago, 11 comments so far.
glimpses
Posted 10 months ago, 18 comments so far.
connection
Posted 10 months ago, 17 comments so far.
randomies
Posted 11 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
