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war queen

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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alea iacta est, crossing the rubicon, Jezebel love, Julius Caesar, Orpheus was my godfather, poem, Poetry, shy girl, sonnet, war queen

 

Come, find me: others might have promised you
love but I’ll be the one who goes to hell
to win back your soul. Julius Caesar, who
crossed the Rubicon, loved a jezebel,
a war queen, a shy girl, promised as such
— “alea iacta est” — now the die is cast.
This is a promise I’m staking so much
on. War queen, Jezebel, Love: Hell is vast
and I am small, but I will go looking
for you. Orpheus taught me where to go.
I can fill the gods with tears. Our dreamland,
even our dreams, knows this song. I’m singing
you back, love. What is love to a shadow?
I’ll show you when I steal you from death’s land.

a few notes on cannibalism

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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cannibalism, erotic, God of Death, infernal appetite, Jarod Kintz, kinky sex, poem, Poetry, sonnet, Today is Tuesday

“When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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I could bind you, bite you, beat you. Freaky
needs leave you in rags and used. Should I come

back? kiss away the bruise? But that’s what we
do on Friday nights out of pure boredom.

Today is Tuesday, kitchen day, and I
have been playing with spices: lemon zest,

basil, chervil. One day I shall hog-tie
you, rub thyme and marjoram on your breasts.

I am curious what you would taste of
if I felt a bit peckish. It is odd

how so few things shock anymore. Quite right,
the cannibal in you is not above

a tease. I’m a lovely cock tease. The God
of Death knows my infernal appetite.

filled my heart

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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damaged, damaged goods, fag, give a fuck, homophobia, irony, poem, Poetry, sissy, sonnet, tomboy

Damaged. I don’t need to say anything
more but you know. All my poetry pales
before those two syllables. Heart breaking
how I learned not to give a fuck. Details
are all unimportant. All tragedies
are pain. But to not give a fuck? That part
hurts the most. Damaged goods. Before “sissies,”
“tomboys” and “fags.” Before fear filled my heart.

I own that now, for Damaged means wisdom.
It means that we took it all and survived.
I do give a fuck. If you’re reading this
then we survived. You and me. I’ve been numb
for a good long time. Damaged. They deprived
us of our childhood but we’re still us. Us.

again again again

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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fairy tale, find your magic, Maleficent, poem, Poetry, sonnet, why I need Feminism, widow

But my mother’s mother, Maleficent,
widowed from her first love, and that love’s first
ripe fruit, moved through her father’s realm, torment
in her heart, her native tongue, being cursed
as all fairy tales curse us with ruin.
Again. Again. Again. “Find your magic,”
grandmother replied at each doubt—her one
dictum, fed with her green fire and sapphic
faith. She spoke so little of pain that we
forgot that she was a widow with no
regret, practiced in delight. I recall
all her stories, of heroines scrubbed free
of men’s curses. Tales where not one widow,
crone, step-mother died—just burned for us all.

this wine that i uncork

29 Sunday Sep 2013

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age difference, erotic, poem, Poetry, seduction, sonnet, this wine that I uncork

 

She brushed against him, kissed the devil, sucked
his fat bottom lip into her mouth, flicking
her tongue once, twice; each kiss causing havoc
all through his body, essence bubbling
up, then nipped, then suckled. Virgins were her
biggest weakness. She wanted to taste all
of his fourteen years. Awake the geyser
no one had yet to tap. Little boy doll,
I’ll take what is yours into what is mine.
I’ll make you sob. She raised one arched eyebrow,
posed. It’s done like this, she said, as she bent
catch of his breath down on her knees. This wine
that I uncork, fill me, gag me. Cum now,
son; and with that he spent and spent and spent.

whores my mothers

29 Sunday Sep 2013

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aunts, false-faith, If I had my way in this wicked world, Medusa, poem, Poetry, sisters, sonnet, whores my mothers

I’ll go, rescue you from hell. I have squeezed
the sleaze that says there’s snakes in your tresses,
serpents in your pubes. I’ve been down there, greased
and lubed the garden of your thighs. Bitches
be my sisters. Whores my mothers. Sluts be
my aunts. Wrap me in your gorgon hair.
I’m cold. I like the way you stare at me.
Hard eyes on fire. Beyond false-faith and prayer,
beyond good and bad, there is love. Men build
buildings and call themselves gods. But this bliss
doesn’t come from that. Medusa, don’t drown
in male rage. They say that they were thrilled
to kill you. We don’t need monsters in this
wicked world. Let’s burn all their buildings down.

the cynical kind

29 Sunday Sep 2013

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Aphrodite, ars poetica, born-again wankers, no punctuation, poem, Poetry, sonnet, the cynical kind

when it comes to smut and poets you shut
up if you’re doing this just to get laid
you are making it far worse i love smut
and its morals something that you degrade
like born-agains do to faith your hopeless
need to control fear but fear like a blow
job keeps us believing in this faithless
world it keeps the fires of the libido
hot you getting laid is the least of our
concerns aphrodite would be displeased
with you instead escape this trap this bind
shrine maids do it but you all who devour
their lust are their lust the only diseased
sort of passion is the cynical kind …

bleeding fuck

29 Sunday Sep 2013

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bleeding fuck, flesh and blood, Night Witch, No-Man's Land, poem, Poetry, Rosette Stone, sonnet

I’m glad that you go mad, sometimes, despite
all the beauty that you’re still buried in.
Here is your map and flying goggles, night
witch. Here is No-Man’s Land. Erotic sin
mandates that you get caught while doing this;
but our people won’t be able to bring
back your body. Today, stay sane, princess.
See this symbol of the fuck? The bleeding
fuck. Now take off and fly. Kiss me, kismet.
Just this once stop being his wife, mother
and friend. Come back to me. Your bestial
hunger piques my interest. You’re my rosette
stone, one awaiting an interpreter.
Flesh and blood, you are undecipherable.

ballad of the doomed man, by federico garcia lorca

28 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, Spanish, Translation

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Ballad of the Doomed Man, Federico Garcia Lorca, Poetry, romance del emplazado, Spanish translation

My fretting solitude!
The small eyes of my body
and the great eyes of my mare
do not shut out the night;
do not gaze faraway to see
a dream of 13 boats
toddle along peacefully.
Instead, as squires at vigil,
are clean and hard.
My eyes look toward the north
to the precipices and metals
where my body of no arteries
consults a frozen deck of cards.

Massive water oxen
charge at the schoolboys
bathing in the moons
of their fermenting horns.
Hammers were singing
on hypnotic anvils
insomnia of rider,
insomnia of horse.

On the 25th of June
they told El Amargo:
“The time has come to cut down
the oleanders out in your yard.
Paint a cross up on your door,
put your name beneath
for nettles and hemlock
will sprout from your haunch,
and needles of dewy lime
will gall through your boots.
When at night, in darkness,
over magnetic hillocks
where the water oxen
dreamily drink up the reeds.
Ask for the candles and bells.
Learn how to cross your hands
and taste the numbing winds
of precipices and metals:
for in two months from now
you will lie under a shroud.”

Santiago swings his sword,
astral, stellar, across the sky.
Dismal silence flows
out of an arching heaven.

On the 25th of June
El Amargo opened his eyes,
on the 25th of August
he lay down and closed them tight.
Men were bustling about the street
to see the man who was to die,
who fixed against the wall
his solitude, now feckless.
And the righteous sheet,
with its hard dactyl of Rome,
gave self-restraint to death
by the straightness of its edges.

—- translation by ZJC

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romance del emplazado

¡Mi soledad sin descanso!
Ojos chicos de mi cuerpo
y grandes de mi caballo,
no se cierran por la noche
ni miran al otro lado
donde se aleja tranquilo
un sueño de trece barcos.
Sino que limpios y duros
escuderos desvelados,
mis ojos miran un norte
de metales y peñascos
donde mi cuerpo sin venas
consulta naipes helados.

Los densos bueyes del agua
embisten a los muchachos
que se bañan en las lunas
de sus cuernos ondulados.
Y los martillos cantaban
sobre los yunques sonámbulos,
el insomnio del jinete
y el insomnio del caballo.

El veinticinco de junio
le dijeron a el Amargo:
Ya puedes cortar si gustas
las adelfas de tu patio.
Pinta una cruz en la puerta
y pon tu nombre debajo,
porque cicutas y ortigas
nacerán en tu costado,
y agujas de cal mojada
te morderán los zapatos.
Será de noche, en lo oscuro,
por los montes imantados,
donde los bueyes del agua
beben los juncos soñando.
Pide luces y campanas.
Aprende a cruzar las manos,
y gusta los aires fríos
de metales y peñascos.
Porque dentro de dos meses
yacerás amortajado.

Espadón de nebulosa
mueve en el aire Santiago.
Grave silencio, de espalda,
manaba el cielo combado.

El veinticinco de junio
abrió sus ojos Amargo,
y el veinticinco de agosto
se tendió para cerrarlos.
Hombres bajaban la calle
para ver al emplazado,
que fijaba sobre el muro
su soledad con descanso.
Y la sábana impecable,
de duro acento romano,
daba equilibrio a la muerte
con las rectas de sus paños.

hush, baby, hush, by federico garcia lorca

28 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Poetry, Spanish, Translation

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Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca, hush baby hush, Poetry, Spanish translation, ZJC

Hush, baby, hush.
Dream of a great black stallion
that would not drink the water.
Wouldn’t drink the water.
The water was black
under the branches.
Under the branches
the water was black.
Under the bridge
it stopped and sang.
Who can say, my baby,
of the water’s pain?
Of the water’s pain
who can say?
As it draws its long tail
through deep green room …

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Nana, niño, nana
del caballo grande
que no quiso el agua.
El agua era negra
dentro de las ramas.
Cuando llega el puente
se detiene y canta.
¿Quién dirá, mi niño,
lo que tiene el agua
con su larga cola
por su verde sala …

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