Damon Hubbs

Roosevelt Island Haiku 

Please consider my taste
The captivating pivot 
leads to the inevitable collapse
The truth of a time-
stamped poem is like 
too many detectives 
in search of a grand piano

and in another life 
I’m building rooms
exploring connection and exclusion
but today 
let’s just say the speed skater 
has an ass like the most beautiful 
windmill in Holland 

Let’s just say 
I read your Roosevelt Island haiku 
and found it marvelous 
Let’s just say
I never knew 
that Dawson Leery lived in Massachusetts 
I wonder if he listened to The Modern Lovers 

     drunk on the tramway
     hospitals & asylums 
     Young Turks, graffiti 

Daniel de Culla

Perfect Friendship

Because you never settle for a quickie without a condom
Or for slapping your tits with an erect penis
Now I want you to spread your legs
On the donkey of our love bed
Because I want to thank your vagina
In the name of the maternal vagina
For so many things you’ve given me in life
Because I want to tell you:
 -Thank you, Cunt!
Before we separate
And buy two beds so we don’t sleep together.
Thanks to you, and my seed, we formed a family
Creating a warm home.
You helped me get a job
So I could earn my daily bread
With the sweat of our two brows.
Sometimes, you let me rest between your two tits
To meditate on the sex we shared
Throwing myself from your moving cunt
To come against the bedroom wall.
I know you came to Earth
So that your carnivorous vagina
Could devour this little churro of mine
That rose erect before you
Like the tongue in our labial kisses
Your hands gripping it tightly
To lead it to the true and necessary hole.
Instead of singing, I bellowed
And you moaned, feeling your nymphs turn to mush.
Tired now of our labor
Of inveterate fuckers
Now we separate rooms
Because I can’t stand
That unpleasant skunk smell from your cunt
And you can’t stand
The farts I let out, telling you as I fart:
-Catch them with your hands
To let them enjoy your peace.
That’s why it’s better that we sleep separately
Each in a room
Giving ourselves
Perfect friendship.
I, in my dreams, will raise my penis
To the temple of your vagina.
You, in your own way
Will sing to the penis that was light in your vagina
And the heaven of its palate.

David Estringel

Shadow Cat, 2004

After Richard Hambleton (1952-2017)

Shadow cat
p   r   o   w   l
Low’r
East Village
silky
sidewalk
slink
lookin’ high
lookin’
low
‘round lampposts n’
alleyway
piss puddles
for
a tasty
trick
or treat.

Oil slick
tangles—
blacktarsexy
sheen—
brown sugar
smile
n’ puncture claw hunger
jonesin’
for the exhale
of a hypodermic
pounce. 

Fat rat’s
‘round the corner
throwing bones
sniffin’ bacon
playing
its fat rat
games
ripe
for the pickin’
to plop

on the doorstep—
eight lives
d
o
w
n—
on this ol’ city
street
for a thump
(n’ a thump
n’ a thump thump thump)
n’
its lil baggies
o’ cheese.

***

Previously published in The Daily Drunk

Matt Amott

Sugar

We were going pretty
hot and heavy for a while,
the bedroom windows
were all fogged up.
I made sure to take my time,
hit all the erogenous zones
because I wasn’t sure
when I’d be here again.
We both finally finished
and while still breathing heavy
I went into the bathroom.
Standing naked
in front of the toilet,
it took a minute
to get it going.
Figure the piss had to
weave its way through
the previous emissions
until it finally rushed out
of me in a hot stream.
I stood there 2 or 3 minutes 
looking at my face in the mirror, judging,
while it just kept flowing out of me.
Backed up from the first beer
we shared until hours later
when she gripped the sheets
as I released inside her.

When I get back into bed she says
“You were in there awhile,
did you have to flush out
all that beer we drank?”
I thought to myself
yeah, along with the guilt
of fucking my neighbor’s wife.

Dana Jerman

Toast

Blame the Veuve Clicquot & get ready to not be able
to concentrate on anything, because your girlfriend
is super horny for you she just rubbed two out. 

Blame doctor Dom Perignon, tumbling naked
wishes you were here wrecking her hair and covering her with kisses.
Deep mouth open sucking messy gorgeous unstoppable kissing
jilling her off a third one Oh—

She’s straight… outta the shower, undressed,
and doesn’t identify as monogamous for fucking fuckery’s sake,
she identifies as lightning, as wanting. As a sexual longing machine—
desirable destined for your arms.

As fuckable and functioning and ready and awake, hungry in love.
As mad and wild and ravishing and human and feminine.
As much yours as anything could ever be.
Deep as a sword could be plunged into a heart.

Blame the perfume in the starry cascade.
The spark back in sparkling. The light back in nightlights.

Blame the Moet for hot pulses coursing like a train
toward high times in this low life. 
Cristal too for Laying lying lacking lunging for
lustful reasons for here she is, refulgent. 

Never mourn nor pine for what’s right in front of you—
Come in haste like bubbles poured out to waste
this beautiful goddamned golden day
in this magic bed with her.

Salvatore Difalco

Nature Is High, Man

Too high to climb the pine tree
with the skinned trunk,
my ears latch on to the buzzing 
     of the forest dark,
a million stabs and suicides—
murder has many voices
     and many choices
and we wear the plaid shirts
and Kodiak boots not
     just for kicks.
An ample bear commits
no wrong by slamming through
the brush pursuing a moose.
     The moose might differ,
but the forest exists for every
thing and now and then a bear
     must eat a moose 
to feel alive, to feel bear-like.
The moose would argue
that its life means more to it
than dinner for a brute.
     But Nature differs.
Nature is too high to give
a shit what kills or doesn’t kill.
Things have to eat. Things
have to die and sometimes 
     these things coincide. 
Meanwhile Nature chills.  

Mandy Schmiedlin

Bestiality

The first time I saw myself on video I got a hard on.  I don’t remember the girl’s name, but I remember what her blood smelled like as she died.

It started out innocently enough.  I took her to a rundown motel and paid her fifty bucks to let my partner videotape her.  I told her to strip and bent her over the dresser, entering her. She moaned softly and I couldn’t tell if she was enjoying it.  I pushed my fingers into her hair, stroking the pale mane gently. “Do you like it when I fuck you?” I murmured against her ear.  She only bit her lip and closed her eyes.

I lowered my head and kissed her shoulder, and the sensuous taste of her skin caused my animal instinct to take over.  The girl’s eyes fluttered open and she let out a startled gasp as I curled my fingers tightly around her hair and pulled her head sharply back.  “Oh god,” she whispered, her voice trembling once she realized I had her small frame pinned completely against the dresser.  I smiled at the thought of what I was about to do to her, and a low laugh escaped my lips.  

“God?” I replied, “No darling.  God has forsaken you.”  She struggled in vain, whimpering, and tears stained her cheeks.  Her pitiful cries soon turned into screams as I sank my fingers into her back, clawing at the flesh savagely.  The camera zoomed in on her mouth, opened wide in terror, and her head slammed into the streaked mirror over and over again as I hammered myself violently inside her.  I growled in lust and hunger, and my mouthful of sharp teeth sliced into her delicate skin.  I lapped up the blood that poured from her wounds and brought my hand up to her breast, my eyes glinting in the poor light as I smiled slyly into the camera.  

When I came, the intensity of release brought forth a guttural raging howl and I closed my eyes until the feeling passed and I became myself again.  I climbed off the corpse and staggered to the bathroom, turning the shower on.  As I left, I made sure to reach into her purse and retrieve the fifty before closing the door, leaving the carnage behind.

There are others like me, men that possess an agonizing thirst for the blood of women.  They look like everybody else, but their daydreams are haunted with pornographic images of women, naked and exposed, covered in blood.  And when they make love to their wives, they often silently wish for piercing screams of anguish, only climaxing at the thought of that certain intoxicating look all women get when tortured.  The look is more beautiful when you finally tear them to shreds. 

To our kind, mutilation and sex are forever intertwined.  It has been so since the dawn of creation.  We don’t struggle with the question of it.  We don’t fight to suppress it.  And we no longer reel against the idea of it.  We simply kill.  You read about us in the paper sometimes, but often you’re not allowed the privilege of the details.  How, after the victim was raped, the entrails were torn out and feasted upon.  And always, a video camera and tripod remained, but never a tape.  

Knowing that there was a relic for each of our vicious acts comforted us.  We did this, so we could live on.  Even the men with badges were fearful to let the brutality of the crimes be known.  It’s likely that every night they tucked their children into bed and prayed desperately that tomorrow would be different.  So far, their prayers have fallen on deaf ears.

They don’t always walk into my traps willingly.  No, some of them have to be forced into it.  The last girl was difficult.  She put up a fight, by god, determined not to go down easily.  I had deep fingernail scratches on my face and torn clothing by the time I got her chained to the bed.  

Working alone this time, I set up the video camera myself before approaching her.  I rubbed my hand down her smooth white belly, and her mouth quivered when I reached her underwear.  I ripped them off, cruelly slapping her across the jaw as I revealed the fiery red pelt that matched her bright curls.  When I entered her, she cried, making desperate, futile attempts at negotiation.  

She pleaded incessantly with me, a river of tears streaming down her face.  I didn’t know whether she cried from the pain of me hurting her, or the torment of humiliation as she was made to submit, and I never really cared.  I violated her mercilessly and took pleasure in knowing what I was about to take from her.  

“Look at the camera baby,” I purred, laying my hand across her face and pressing to the right, so that she had no choice but to do what I asked.  The elusive primal urge that I had been waiting for finally took hold of me, and I yearned for blood.  

“Take a good hard look,” I leaned down and whispered through her screams.  “Because it’s the last thing you’re ever gonna see.”

I replay the tapes every now and again, watching myself with one unlucky wretch after another.  Its always the same; only the girls change.  The film is grainy and the colors are monochromatic.  The sound, you can barely make out.  They never say anything of interest, only begging when it is required of them.  The scene always ends the same way.  At a certain point you start to see the metamorphosis:  the bristled hair lengthening, the nails sharpening.  Then the camera will invariably go dark, and when it returns everything is red from the blood.  And the last thing you see are the yellow eyes of a wolf.

Todd Cirillo

A Good Sleep

You and I sure can dream.
We dream with eyes closed
listening to the words of the waves
laying on a beach in Costa Rica.
Driving around dreaming
of small towns deep in Mexico
where gringos dare not go.
We dream of good sleep and long love.
We dream while staring at fat gray clouds
over green mountains
or sitting across from each other
at a breakfast date
of strong coffee 
and sweet cinnamon rolls
where, at least one of us,
dreams for a kiss
while the other
dreams of longer smiles
and an unburdened life.

Sometimes we dream together,
well, not together, as in the exact same dream
but where we are tangled up with one another
in sheets or silence.

These dreams keep us awake wondering,
looking at maps, reading books 
and researching other places and possibilities
with other people.
Maybe someday we will dream
in the same direction.
Then we can finally 
place our heads on one another
and sleep well.

Vampirlibido

Necrophilia

. . . necrophilia is more prevalent 
than most people imagine.

—KAREN GREENLEE

straddling his pelvis,
a moaning mortician 
rubs her clit against 
the stolen corpse’s cock

she seduced corpses to summon Azrael

groping the corpse’s tit,
a student cums

a bereaved nun 
kisses a charred femur
and then masturbates with it

jerking off 
while devouring a cadaveric tit,
a mortuary assistant

after strangling him,
with her bare hands,
she rides his boner
until she cums