COMING SOON
R O M E O
some published poems from a larger unpublished set
DOPAMINE PIGS
Sniff around
In the solitude
Feeling
Permanently depleted
Fighting it
Tactically agile
Get a bit
High and
Pleasure
Evaporates
Back
To the sniff
I try
To take away
His bit
For a tactical supply
He tactically
Retracts
I fall
Sadly
Into the
Lotus field
SUB
Servant
Sad slave
Too sub to try
You feed the bomb
Like a middle child
A mass of secondary genes
Observing behind the perspex
In comfort
Planted
Fuckless
In comfort
Planted
Fuckless
AIRBORNE
We went too far
Now we are nothing again
I feel peace
Fragments in the air
After a car bomb
The sudden clarity
Watching my illusions
Of you
Try to stay airborne
Try against decimation
The fade is
Brighter than
Your bloom
TWO
I was falling
You were too
Too similar
Our armour
Too weird
Your head
Took two years
To be strangers
For two years
I felt vital
On a pedestal
Holding you up
ROMEO
Under my lashes
Flashes of the male body
And consciousness
Every free thought
An excuse to break
Down in the void
There is a place
Beyond ideation
We fucked
Out of our heads
You put a hole in me
You ruin
I know you'll fail
My only consolation
MY IDOL
Crashed through the wall
In fetish
Sprawled himself
An ecosystem
I tattooed his inner thighs
In soft, living words
High breath
Psalms of throat lace
Early love split out
An adoral vortex
Until his thighs
Were white
Nympholeptic
A girl's offering
Words of ego
A laboured, inflated
Lazy thing
Novelty warrior
One layer
I gave him might
And conquest
He never had
POST-DESIRE
Dry flowers
And shrapnel
In my veil
And you
Boneless
Anaemic
Gone fetid
IN NEGATIVE
The plot spreads before me
In negative
There's no estimating the distance
Between one love and the next
The length of suspension
Between pain-breeder and pain-breeder
Me
Masturbating—palliatively
Making the eggs
Bending my sickness
The saccharine will
MALE PAIN FIXATION
The foreign body
Evasive, the grail
What exactly
Is my extent?
A groin pain
Dull, fear of loss?
An industrial sound
Machine under stress?
Trapped in a building
Built by other men?
Is it a slit
Almost feminine?
As beautiful
As the break in his voicebox?
Does it ossify
Make him feel old?
Did it evaporate
A cumshot?
THERE IS NO WORD
In English
For the body scream
The howling bitch
Of private love pain
The subterranean
Primeval non-sound
The wretched litanies
Of existence