Daniel de Culla

THE DIARRHEA OF WAR WILL BE THE END

Theologians, philosophers, charlatans, tricksters and liars
Since the History of Humanity have told us:
-A better world is impossible.
The Diarrhea of War will be the end
And from its defecation a new life will spring forth
Like the cheeses that are cured among manure
That is how we procreate among asses full of shit
Like donkeys well mounted on she donkeys and asses.
Each faith or each of our gods
Also come mounted on their donkeys.
They come to battle. ¡What a feast of deaths they will have¡
Giant armies unhinging the mountains, the hills
The buildings, the schools, the hospitals
Hoping that no puppet remains with a head
And if they are women and children, honey of death on flakes!
-The combat has to be the bloodiest
The Chief of War orders
Touching his balls that make the earth tremble
And the sky trembles thundering bombs
Stunning the displaced
Who go through the fields, the paths, the roads, fleeing
Some stumbling, others slipping
Touching with their heads
The mass graves that await them.
But, always, there are some who, in courage, exceed them all
And they fornicate because they cannot resist
Since the desire to screw is not respected even by the dead
Even if they see themselves thrown into the only hell that is this Earth.
War of religions? Not a damn thing!
War of vested interests, of ambitions,
Of theft, of looting, of rape.
No trace of faith, nor relics remain in any of them.
Everything is owed to the Diarrhea of War
Those who lie on the ground or in the decomposed rubble scream.
And to whom is it all owed?
To the mss killers who shit where and when it suits them
Mother Fuckers and of everything that moves
First-class criminal bastard pigs
As the Annals of History indicate us.

Alex S. Johnson

Psychedelic Vampire

And she was falling down in fire,
him leaning over her as
rainbow glitter winked along the edges of 
his two sets of
collars

Inlaid with mushroom heads
inset with snakes
inset with snapping jewel hives
that clove and rendered her baby mind

Opening up a voyage to Arcturus
making Aurelia vulnerable once more and
opening up her head to that
soft, fine, particulate matter

Like sand in an hourglass
like the smile of nitrous oxide tipped over
within the fine fibers of carpet
within the knots of duelling fractal spacetimes
within molecular kingdoms
sucked down, rooted through

In the age-old familial vampire dynastic way 

At the moment of her mushroomorgasmic death
re-experiencing the sugar ransom
of her life held
prisoner from
birth within the
incest hiive.

Her spirits flapped and flailed. He
sunk his lysergic teeth deep within once
more, and the ticket to the swirling cinema of her
youthful escapades was not so easy won. Brutality

Hammered down on her head like Maxwell’s silver fists, 
her father and brother tag-teaming her through
her adolescent dreadful rites, her squirming like a
bug as pleasurable pain gripped her bones.

But sundering came as soft release like
soft spring rain the

Clouds tipped over their dancing buckets and
she crossed the meadow barefoot, nude her

Full breasts swaying, as the fae swirled 
around her rotating hips

The music swelling, credits crawling as the
notes of skittering dub swan-dove her vertebrae

Undead undead undead
undead undead undead

Undead.

Tempest Miller

Sex in Hell

Flame geysers shoot up your crack,
and tether –
hydrophobic to your colon.
You lay on your leather coat atop a rubbished stone.
Dirty Dick, bf, rubs clotted dirt over your pecs.
He licks his furnishings off you
in round and round the garden like a teddy bear circles.
He adjusts, fidgets, scuffles.
He sodomises you 1) with a roadsign and 2) with a rainbow trout.
He whips you with a flannel he bathed in fire.
He inserts olive-oil-lubricated dirt into your trachea
with a whole fist
and then goes to do the same in your colon.
He sojourns his white cock in your ass.
The white of Hell,
the white whale he is,
floating over you one-eyed, pentagonal, askew.
You shit out fire-dirt-geyser-oil onto his cock.
Your stench of fecundity overwhelms his disgust
and he cannot whiten further.
He laps at your black-haired aestheticism,
saying he’s never seen someone with so few wrinkles.
He grips your meaty handlebars –
you were razor-thin but you drank from sewers and fattened.
He puts his ass onto your face.
You feign non-reciprocity,
you push him off so that he falls into the seas of Hell,
that lap at where you lay
on your biker jacket,
diseased,
post-modern
fine art
punk
who looks like a sordid shrivelled field mouse.
You turn away from him
as he emerges charred and bloated.
You drink absinthe,
you gush to him, still turned away, in Flemish
about how you think his cock is a stinging nettle
up your shitty shitty shitty pulsing colon;
and how you adore it,
how you don’t get butterflies but whole murders of crows
and how a part of you is chomping at the bit.
But not tonight,
not for the hundredth time tonight.

Michael Ashley

The YouTube gurus tell me to live in the moment

but how do you do that when there are so many catastrophes to ruminate on?

the ones I built up ahead of time
that I constructed brick by brick
scene by scene
until I could clearly see that anvil swaying above
on a thinning slither of rope

the ones which I lived in that moment 

the sharp edge of the anvil descending 
compressing the air above my head 
the skin slowly pressing itself into my skull
the tiny crack as bone enters flesh

right now here I am sat watching a YouTuber tell me
how I should live in the moment

running my hand down the rough upturned base
of the anvil

a dark reflective shadow 
its circumference pushing itself out across the floor

the warm gore gathered around
my naked toes

Damon Hubbs

Tennis Socks

It was the year we gave up rooftops for boat decks.
You had fallen for Auden 
and that man with golden talents
O what was his name  —Thom, John  

sucking cocks in your tennis socks 
from Good Harbor to York Beach, 
you thought you were the woman
who invented love

but love couldn’t save me, or you
so we drank at the 525 
like Hamlet’s gravedigger-clowns, 
unaware of our own errors 

unaware that all the boats are named Grady 
and that Pedro pitched Don Zimmer to the ground,
unaware that Toby died 
and Holly crashed her car into The Oceanside

searching for Mercy Street in the Magnolia dusk—
It’s not there, baby. It’s not there. 
You served aces and I 
fished white blossoms from your hair.

Brooks Lindberg

Why Even the Deaf Sing

7 times 70 the
condom tears and
7 times 70
I only
am escaped alone
to tell thee.

Melville had whales and Shakespeare.
Hemingway, bulls and Melville.
Bukowski, racehorses and Hemingway.
Schopenhauer, his jizz on bare breasts.

And me,
I’ve children
outer-darked
roving desolations
for explanation.

The children
of course
being poems.

The womb
of course being
your eyes.

We read as we fuck—
desperately 

fine with flings
though craving what
we could ferry to
the grave.

M.P. Powers

wal-mart customer

who would’ve known 
the guy who considers anything 
with a vegan label to be a threat 
on a par with the suitcase nuke 
is also the guy who’s never come 
within a bargepole’s distance 
from the self-checkout line 
and the one who refuses to return
his shopping cart to the stack 
and leaves it in the gap 
between his jeep grand cherokee 
and the car next to it a 3/4th drunk 
plastic cup of mountain dew 
in the cupholder who would’ve 
known who would’ve known who 
would’ve known?

Gregg Norman

We Came Upon a Midnight Clear

We sang upon a midnight clear
that odious song of old,
of angels bending to touch their toes
and bitch about getting old.

A piece on earth to everyone,
a glorious, rollicking shag.
Then hear in solemn stillness as
the angels gloat and brag.

For souls below need sorely now
a bop-till-you-drop kind of night,
a knee-shake, bottle-break reverie
to set their spirits right.

Look now for glad and golden hours
to follow this toe-curling fling,
and lay upon your rumpled sheets 
and hear the angels sing.

Scott C. Holstad

Hell

Smack dab in the middle of the
club, cornered, no way out.  She
had been following me for
weeks, harassing me, driving me
fucking nuts.  She was 
everywhere I went, no escape
20 calls a day

(God, I want you)

she assaulted anyone I was with
told her I was gay, didn’t work;
couldn’t bluff the bitch.  She was
a fucking nightmare!

(I want you in my mouth
right now right here)

Yeah, sure bitch, the place is
packed, no chance, be my guest.

Damn if she didn’t drop my pants
and suck me down to the balls in
three seconds flat!

While they pulled her off of me I
wondered if IT would remain
intact with that kind of suction
and why did they ever let her out
of the nuthouse and what did I do
to deserve this.

I only heard from her twice
more

(God, I want you in me,
can I have some of your poems?)

I think they locked her back up.