Ryan Aliapoulios

the unifying theory

in the war of self
and self a dream of body fragged to bits

I listene(d) ea(rly)
to ground forgotten crimes assemble
abettor phantom limb-o out of room
in the dark my ankles sparkle
you’re so selfless guillotine
synovial and supercool
ice is shrieking
through my knees

autostereogram

strabismic since I can’t remember

world was the wood my eyes diverged

bicycles dinosaurs canyons faces

3D impressions pages forced eyes of a hawk

the school doc said drifting meanwhile I squirmed

trying all my canted lines my whole head whole body move

seeming slight accruing interest all the basics

turned to tics cues I’m missing lost my language

thought connected turning two and ten and way to way

lenses broken played too roughly staying home today

mutinously out of socket voided angles onto 30

in narcotic haze I paid for (like the one before)

new rooms circles people places

tricks of light from which I hid

book said it’s your eye that blinds

you pluck it out and so I did

Ryan Aliapoulios (he/him) is an LA-based writer, editor and poet. He studied screenwriting at the University of Michigan and is working on his first poetry collection. For updates, follow him @raliapo on Twitter and @rollyops on IG.