Bruce Hainley

Jean Genet

The word mirror

reflected in

the world rimmer.



Prosody

He rimmed him and then he told him

to come up and kiss him
so he could test how his ass tasted.

The guy who wanted the guy

to kiss him having rimmed him
tastes the end of him-

self in the kiss he tastes

his ass and who he’s not
is defined by the kiss part

not the ass part—or vice versa.


Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The toilet paper roll
reels the paper out.

It’s a strip of unexposed film
to put your ass movie on.

Something so degraded
someone goes, What

is that?  Wrong on wrong,
just like your body has been

and mine.
 

 

 
 

A David Trinidad Publication for MiPOesias Magazine 2007