Jake Hajer : Writing

A $1.35 Date

A $1.35 Date

A Poem by Jake Hajer


A $1.35 Everyone else as soon be Drunk or asleep The black jazz bar maiden, w***e house keeper I pay a $1.35 To use her wet To smell her pi..
Going Crazy at Night

Going Crazy at Night

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Going Crazy at Night Romantically saying you need psychatirst in the witches’ night brew Run, rain, running drown in muddy Midwest rive..
November Monday in Uptown

November Monday in Uptown

A Poem by Jake Hajer


November Monday in Uptown Wrinkle-crack Skin burning through months Of clouds Cement city cogs Drains swirling dregs Coffee blood and gum..
Mythical Jan II

Mythical Jan II

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Mythical Jan II If chrome evaporated If pewter pottery dissolved Behind forgotten If mirrors were shot-gun splintered To the ripped canvass s..
Monet Dusk

Monet Dusk

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Monet Dusk Sinking to black In cloud mountain Depths Of cliché adjectives Flaming for a martyr’s death Blowing blur Burning in..
3PM; End of Time

3PM; End of Time

A Poem by Jake Hajer


3PM; The End of Time The colors are muted in a smog Blur And the deep listless grey Breath of an aging parade crowd of loiters Buss fluff ..
Crowd

Crowd

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Crowd Seeing eye- -dog yanked as a blind woman reflects Coffee and bags dot A moving leg thatch metal smear and light splatter in the ..
D Minor

D Minor

A Poem by Jake Hajer


D Minor The sun goes away as the earth turns its back Through all the nasty particles Calloused brown building bricks turn make-up blush oran..
Discounted

Discounted

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Discounted Misanthrope smut s***s in glittering dirt Holding my hand and bending their thighs skirts were made for this With sloe-eyed smiles..
Dying Tropical Fish

Dying Tropical Fish

A Poem by Jake Hajer


Dying Tropical Fish On the nomad bricks A yellow heart tripping To the beat of a pothole Flaming for years Crusted clown Wet of silly tears..