Promotional Collaboration. Limited Print. New and selected poems by J.J. Campbell and Casey Renee Kiser with stunning watercolor cover art by Jasmyn Taylor Givens. Hitch a ride on this sick spectrum of realities and weave through the obstacle course of dull life contradictions with two bitch'n indie poets. C. Renee's poetry is often a bewildered camp of bi-polaring over-share bares declaring their angst from waiting too long for a glacier or heart to melt, while auditioning for a g-spot in her wordplay. Often lyrical but always confessional, her work here rides the waves of triggered emotions, attempting to master the art of {girl overboard} and make any island her home. She prefers crashing when it comes to ships passing in the night, as she refuses to pass up a chance to face anything in her ocean head-on. Her killer backstroke keeps her alive and she washes ashore here, a crispy crab from the sun, sidestepping sharks but balancing out J.J.'s subtle hollowed-out style. Campbell is all truth and bones rubbing together just enough to produce a campfire for one, except when hot legs invite themselves in for a little boom in the confession room where stripped down is an understatement. Always exposing the violent blur of day-to-day grind, he challenges daily horrors and the merry-go-round playback of dysfunction with swing-out spurts of lucid luck and fantasy. His poems reveal life's absurd complications with slaying simplicity and a humor that sneaks up on you, even quite skull-driving, like distant static from the basement television you left on for the chained-up ghost of your childhood fuckery. Somebody get that bitch a Baby Ruth. In this collection, two restless souls lose and laugh while it all goes up in flames, as the beautiful ones scramble to stay in the fakery-bakery on the corner of Suburbia. Relatable as a distant cousin-kiss in a dirty Sunday dress, you're encouraged to turn on a sad song with the happy hour light, buy a stranger a beer and confess something they'll never forget. Cheers to dark clouds, rainbows and all the misfits. by J.J. Campbell: the devil will see you now you would have locked it laughing at funerals hopefully she bites not a therapist rampant in these streets my own misery cocaine whores and machine guns at the oddest fucking moment ashes it never works out that way at the top of their lungs a warm hug like lightning by C. Renee Kiser: kindred i'll eat you lost keys rocks off at the lake of fire three times charming the forest twin flame / not trending pretty something hot-wired for cold rooms i've lost my head and gained sight under the table, you get scraps god thing loose lifetimes and tight timelines alter egos aside worst hitman i ever met brunch with Linda hunger-kind +bonus poems by C. Renee Kiser: lava girl you can't teach the wrong loyalty new tricks +bonus poem by J. J. Campbell: i can smell fear Digital copy here: etsy dot com/GutterKissesForYou
