<p style="text-align:center;">Ms.<br />
Aligned</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">by<br />
J. Garland Wells</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Red and White…<br />
Like a clown she puts on her Amanita Mascaria<br />
To shrink Freud’s flaws and<br />
Take to the rinks of a psychedelic fairy tale<br />
If Sade had first cut.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The brightest colors against<br />
The smog and turmoil, she<br />
Can breathe and dwell and<br />
Allow a moment of dementia.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">One tit is bigger than the other,<br />
Or so says the 9:00 regular.<br />
Ms. Aligned just pours him<br />
His acquitted OJ and scrambles his eggs<br />
Like pure lysergic.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Perhaps later when she’s high<br />
And basking in the Garfunkel-<br />
Approved silence, she will<br />
Peer over her malted pictures<br />
And remember how she was<br />
And how she wasn’t just<br />
A deity’s court jester.</p>
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<p><strong>Artist Bio</strong>:<em> John Garland Wells is a writer, and currently a student, from Asheville, NC. Many of his poems, including this one, can be heard in a spoken word style via his &#8220;beat poetry&#8221; band, BAD TIES (<a id="m_-1301026424670642214LPlnk954889" class="m_-1301026424670642214OWAAutoLink" href="https://badties.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://badties.bandcamp.com/</a>). His works, both written and spoken, are focused on the blend of sarcastic humor and melancholic nostalgia.</em></p>
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