Excerpt from Fortified Castles
ryan fitzpatrick
Part One
21st Century Monsters
Historical Architecture
(for Erin Molly Fitzpatrick)
By magnifying the emotional aspects of speech,
we face new demons carved deeply in the parapets.
Her look was slow and tedious, as if cutting up
valentines, baking cookies could express her love.
He combined a hermit lifestyle with a hi-definition
kind of screen, compressing sorcerys credit limit.
The adult production team try all conceivable ways
to keep them sharing a kiss, including set concrete.
But you should know the best ways to profit from
the historical record and its waves of short buyers.
The street layout and patterns of parking lots make
poor plots for new love sites for overhead cables.
She is the daughter of the catering staff and their
stadium antics are manna for flagging tween spirits.
Young architects cantilever an increased metabolism
off the soul of modern capital, finding design focused.
For Plato, the advertising agency is the great and
only proper levee against any tide of madness.
His utopian proposal wept at the tiny shadow of his
own sense of the modern cityscape as group form.
A descent of chipped panels form a line of unedited
script pages across the face of the parliamentary.
The bare walls hardly a fragmentary composition in
the ways nations embrace in silhouette a kind silence.
Our hero dry-humps the outhouse, undergoing an
intense period of documentary, ranging new words.
The new century sees a masterpiece caged not from
urbanism, but from his passions for a distant cousin.
We tied the faithless extravagance of the baroque to
random permutations pushing certain gothic cravings.
Her film evokes a bleak tableau, fixating on the Rock
of Gibraltars nouveau cravings for new construction.
Golden Parachutes
What is the maximum number of words that can
be spoken by a decapitated head on a pike?
Any future witnesses might lose their hankies
should they remove them from their backstage pass.
Banks would still retain millions in steam engine
holdings in hope that the suns heat boils water.
Someone should stand up for the big guy as his
jittering hands thin the already vanishing oxygen.
The trail climbs out and back behind stacks of
boxes of Camp Rock action figures for severance.
Fires thermal essence can be represented clearly
with pastel and watercolour faked onto Escalades.
If I switch the wires on the thermonuclear detonator,
the waiting lists of respiratory patients will vanish.
Too bad its entertaining like the vampires who are
also bank managers recommending mutual funds.
No experience is necessary for the skydiving scene
from the top floor of the weeks top-grossing picture.
Racing through the American desert in our dune
buggies explodes our already impressive frame.
I need to stop smoking concerns of other shoppers
because my nausea grows over my own livestock.
Zac Efron as Tom Joad is as hetero as it gets in our
tender and ardent time of glorious economic daybreak.
The vividness of your secret love for it sends sugary
rainbows into the ironing boards of our discontent.
Abstinence Vampires
(for Jonathan Ball)
The problem with rehearsing Shakespeare for
real is the puritan bonbons caught in the margins.
There is clearly something wrong with the boys,
at least, its tough how they act all panoramic.
Imagine Donna Reed as a reverse vampire
except for the missionary style beatdowns.
There is an infection risk inherent in how we
sit so close to the industrial processing fluids.
Its funny how the rape fantasy isnt apparent
until the dancing unicorns get too intimate.
We were tired of the current set of tableaus
(Hollywood, Dustbowl, etc), so we planted trees.
Changing what might indicate an end-of-the-world
scenario is quite important in any new century.
Down here on Earth, were happy with teenage
boys and their immigrant solution in GTA.
Reading smut is a clear gateway to a college
education since the best guys have a purity about them.
These house-husbands are so fluffy and silly
for letting themselves become totes gay vampires.
Why do you keep looking at the transformer
towers hoping theyll become steaming geysers?
Yay for one Tiger Beat fangirl who refuses
to divorce her rainbow-fast ejaculations.
Didnt you know that vampire blood can cure
any possible STDs including syphillis.
Its clearly a tattoo that represents how much
I respect and care for all the woodland creatures.
I hope that these half-vampire Juno wannabes
remember to be someone else in their life.