GUEST EDITOR GABRIEL GUDDING ~THE STRANGE CALL
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 ISSN 1543-6063


Bambi                                          



I had my four legs akimbo / I was posing like a starlet in my
spotted coat / I was saucy & rutting hard next to the charred

corpse of my mother / I was creaming into the mouth of any
anonymous ranger / I was a petulant child / A child with

flaming labia / I did not want to nurse at the charred teat of
my mother / I wanted to swallow 1,000 cocks /  I wanted to

be pumped full of bullets / I wanted to be flayed / I wanted
my skin to be hung on a line to dry & the name of some

crappy hunter sewn onto it in red sequins / I wanted to slam
the sky with my white tail / I wanted to be saddled up / I wanted

to be pounded from behind by some eloquent human disaster



The Sign of the Goat                         

I saw myself lying spread-eagle on a slab of whale blubber      :    Egg-cream
custard dripping down my thighs      :   I saw myself wearing a necklace

of cow hearts      :     The inflated ventricular membranes exploding
one by one    I saw myself in pig-skin & rhinestone helmet    :   Pulling

the stitching out of my chest to reveal           :          a veil of red
rubber tubes    :    I saw myself wearing stilettos of meat

& laughing  :  I saw myself dressed in pink-eye     & tumors :  Modeling
the latest vivisection device :         I saw myself loading a gun &

aiming it at my dirty dirty species   :    I saw myself lying on a gurney
surrounded by     deer in white jackets   :

My spine being pulled out my asshole     :     like a string of diamonds



Stupid Pink Wad                                   

We were knee-deep / in the swinky goo/ We’d been rolling in
the hoops / When—Alakazaam!— / There it was!/ It was a

revolting wad/ & it was pink! / It was revolting & / it was
stuck to the underside / of my body!/ He was creaming at

me / something beastly / (He was/ quite a creamer!) /  I said, /
Please can you help remove/the jelly-like pink wad? / It’s stuck fast to /

my undercarriage
/ But no! / He was riding along / in that snake-
carriage / In his silk hat & / latex opera gloves / He was boring

deep into the darkest furs / He was dangling / six-hundred
hungers / He was creaming & creaming/ gentle revolver in

hand / That spasming angel! / That cocking fountain/ of light!
 

Lara
Glenum

Lara's first book of poetry, The Hounds of No, is due out from Action  Books in the Fall of 2005. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conjunctions, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Fence, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems on this page © Lara Glenum 2005.
 

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