mama, i’ve seen a shy man play a mean guitar
i’ve seen him play oh my god!
like he’s met the devil, like
his father had a biblical name
like he was made to perform
can you believe it
he looks just like the man you said would save me
avant-garde mumbo jumbo
mama, i’ve seen a shy man play a mean guitar
i’ve seen him play oh my god!
like he’s met the devil, like
his father had a biblical name
like he was made to perform
can you believe it
he looks just like the man you said would save me
the only way you will listen
to me
is if
you love me
so first
you will
love me
i will
aim
for that
i will
stand
naked
to
the elements
all elements
and i will
make you
you who love me
love me
you
beautiful flower
then
i will
talk
to you
for you, about you
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oh, the pleasure i get from knowing
that hell too must open its lips
to take me in
how i’ve masturbated!
to the thought of eyes bulging
surprised— at how big i am
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when i was fourteen i discovered biggie
the sex pistols and prince
i knew what every women wanted
and i fantasized about stripping
i’d heard you’d get to swing your dick
all day
that you’d how’s your mother? men your father’s age
and that didn’t sound half-bad to me
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guys, don’t have sex outside!
you’ll pull out in time
your cum will hit the ground
and you’ll know exactly
where it’s headed
and where it’s not
and you’ll smile
at having gotten away with it
and i swear you’ll try it again
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the best feeling in the world precedes the question
“more?”
you give someone a book
an album, a movie (a part of you
that you hold dearly)
and you watch as their eyes water
and grow
embodying wonderment and grandeur
as their head moves along
taking it all in
and then, done, the question comes, and you too
smile
it’s the pause after
the question’s asked that
eventually kills you
the whole room turning its head
to enjoy something means ‘to be in Joy’
ex. a man feeds a baby ice-cream
and the baby’s eyes croon of her being in Joy;
dancing, for all of two seconds, in front of this man
ex. a baby sees ice-cream fall on a man’s shoes
and her self-given round-of-applause speaks of her
accomplishment and enjoyment, and the whole
damn restaurant turns its head to see what the fuss is about
to be enthusiastic means ‘to be filled with God’
ex. a baby sees a man getting up
and still full (filled) she raises her hands
demanding he come back, and let her dance atop his feet again
the next time someone asks me
who are you?
i’m going to tell them
i am
twenty-two years’
stockpile of seconds
AND THEN SOME!
standing before you
i can picture it now
they’ll take me for mad
or romantic
when i’m neither
but i’m still going to say it
because
i am
twenty-two, and alive
and i don’t care if you mistake
the sound of snow rolling
down the mountain for danger
or youth