this poem is queer with white disco blood cells, turning over floor boards purchased from mice and roaches with a lineage of two hundred million years ago
do not lock lips with this poem because your bed sore against this lip sore could lead to the need for medication in the form of cream or humiliation
this poem has been diagnosed with HPV, gonorrhea, syphilis, ADD, chlamydia, candidiasis, scabies, herpes, cataracts, genital warts, PTSD, bacterial vaginosis
this poem votes Republican, but calls itself a Democrat or does not vote at all due to overactive sleep cycle, laziness and the ability to pick a side
this poem needs to hire an accountant to keep track of its sexual partners
this poem steals prescriptions from medicine cabinets and bedside tables
this poem is into course language, orgies, erections, blow jobs, humiliation and the word NO
this poem places pills in pockets for later when it is hungry and too tired to steam up broccoli or cocaine
this poem hates white people and yuppies and those with 401K’s and retirement plans and women with quick metabolisms and personal trainers and anyone who contributes to over-population
this poem has a bomb attached to its belly, distended from starvation because it chose an eating disorder over trichotillomania because emaciation is more socially acceptable than female baldness
this poem fingers itself on a Monday in the bathroom of over-priced university and foregoes hand washing in order to wipe poem juice on door knobs and hand shakes
this poem picks its nose and initiates a storm of blood rising from cartilage toward cleft above lip
this poem packs an elastomer cock purchased for twenty-five dollars plus tax minus 10% for being the floor model
this poem has stolen chapstick, salad dressing, a karaoke machine, several glasses of beer from men expecting conversation or drunk touching, two cream cheese sesame bagels and a coffee
this poem has broken up two marriages
this poem straddles guns, organic carrots, umbrella handles, chicken sausage, harmonicas, drum sticks, thermoses, and does not wash after use
this poem ran out of lubricant and found feces to be a fine alternative
this poem needs to tell someone about the time her uncle babysitter dentist music teacher neightbor ex-boyfriend best friend those people raped her
this poem dresses in women’s clothing when no one is home
this poem refuses to pay taxes
this poem went to Thailand for sexual reassignment surgery seven years ago but still dreams of its dick still swinging loudly and often wakes with hand around phantom phallus, crying
this poem is vegetarian but savors the smell of bacon in the air and on her hamburger
this poem only knows how to fake an orgasm
this poem pretended to be homosexual in order to get out of the draft
this poem is queer
Love this piece. So glad to have found your site and look forward to reading more.
I love this poem it is wonderful!!!! I have written a few myself but mine are a completely different style please check them out.
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Interesting work here.
I imagined this work in a few different ways,
with the “this poem” replaced with “I”, and then
imagined it with “this poem” replaced with “you”.
You have some great lines in here.
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