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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!
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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.
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