First
you take some wobbling globs of flesh, knead them and pound them, pummel
them
like dough then press them together into slabs of gooey putty. Then you
stretch them, fold them
over, twist them with both fists, place in each of their outspread palms
a sizzling firecracker. Poke a few puncture wound eyes and slash an
afterthought mouth and that, my son, is how you make a woman.
Next you impregnate her, flood her orifice with your oozing phlegm,
slather her buried eggs with creamy smegma. As the months crawl by,
watch her body swell larger and
larger until it appears she will burst, but before she does her legs
will fly apart and her pelvis will convulse and she will shoot fetus
after splattering fetus from
her vaginal barrel, until her progeny, all female, stand before her,
boneless and dripping, a
coven of exploded crones performing rubbery rumbas from canvas to
canvas, leaving behind them runny puddles of linseed oil.
And then what? What can you possibly do next, standing in the middle
of this room, surrounded by all your writhing, wriggling daughters,
with their flopping boobs and sloppy twats flapping in all directions,
sacks of organs turned inside out, spilling viscous fluids all over the
gallery floors? What do you do when they ask if you’d like to dance?
I suggest you fucking dance.
you are twisted in the most delightful ways -excellent piece of writing
ReplyDeletelike some sort of a zen trauma film - very good i say ole chap - EB
This is fucking great! No wonder the poor sucker drank himself into oblivion. (really like your new masthead too) I highly recommend the Stevens/Swan biography of de Kooning - best biography, by far, I have ever read.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mark! I'm hoping to borrow that bio from a painter friend as soon as he finishes it, it sounds riveting. I just saw the MOMA retrospective, which prompted the poem.
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