VEX BOMB
April 2025
Hello Friends,
Welcome back, how have you been? We’re really excited to bring you the second ever issue of VEX BOMB, featuring new names, old poems, borrowed metaphors but alas nothing blue. Since our last issue, our members have built a world with an artist, revived SPEAKEASY and started working on VEX’s 2025 Ventnor Fringe Show.
It’s going to be a busy year for VEX, we can’t wait to show you what we have in store for the rest of the year.
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TTFN ��
Ben & Cody VEX BOMB Editors
CAPILLARIES
THE MIRROR OF ME, DANCING ROUND TREES, TOES SINKING GROOVES IN MOSSY CAPILLARIES
LICHEN BURDENED BY FINGERTIPS GRASPING, FOLLICLES CONTRACT WITH EACH SUNBEAM PASSING.
THE MIRROR OF ME, NEGOTIATE ITS RELEASE FROM BELOW THESE EARTHLY CANOPIES NAKEDLY, DELICATELY, BENEATH THE CANOPY. BENEATH THE CANOPY WHERE I SINK MY PALM INTO THE SEA. OF WARM CRIMSON RUSH THROUGH MY CAPILLARIES
BEN MURRAY-HOMES
BURN
The morning you left I heard the sun
hear. When you left, I heard the sun fucking burn.
CODY PEVREALL
Thunder
I confess, I have cherished thunder for eons. Thunder is part of my strategy For universe domination. For universe domination Thunder is part of my strategy. Thunder is the company I keep when feeling Like I’m staring Down the barrel of a gun, And I cannot see the creep On the other side of the excuse.
On the other side of the excuse I cannot see the creep. Down the barrel of a gun I am staring, Keeping the company Of thunder.
This is part of my strategy For universe domination.
I have cherished thunder for eons, I confess. AndrewButcher
VEX, The Ventnor Exchange Spoken Word Collective, meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 7:30-9:30pm starting on 2nd January 2025.
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