My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. If I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fifteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shawn scrotum. At the age of eighteen, I went off to evil medical school. From there...
Jan 12, 2008
The Elegy For Skinny Neck
Skinny Neck, what are you doing
when you put your finger on me?
I want to show you the stars,
whichever ones are out.
Let's put that finger on the moon,
my hand around your wrist,
your finger dipped in the bowl
O Skinny Neck,
that …
May 26, 2007
I looked the Angel in the eye
many times each day I made sure
her fingers still fit with mine
I brushed her hair and wings
examined every feather individually
so closely
I soaked the cloth and wrung it
over her head
and with my anxious eyes
I followed a trail …
May 26, 2007
it is not easy to understand forgiveness
with my little red cock in my hand
and it's unthinkable
you standing on the other side of the curtain
as naked as I
naked as a blue jay
waiting to kiss my forehead and eyelids
you can smile for so long
and O you can …
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