XV

DID I JUST END DID I END UP INHALING
MY LAST BREATH ON THE TIP OF YOUR INDEX
HERE'S MY WHOLE LIFE AS IT CEASES TO HAPPEN
LYING SMALL ON MY MURDERER'S FLESH

WERE YOU A COINCIDENCE OR MAYBE A FACT
WERE YOU AROUND MY FINGER A RING
UNWILLING REFUSING OR UNABLE TO SENSE
PAIN AFTER MY LIFE-ENDING STING

I HAVE GIVEN THE YOU
PENETRATED YOU WITH VENOM OF MINE
AND LIVED NO MORE TO WATCH
YOU SUFFER TWO MINUTES TIME

TWO MINUTES BUT YOU LIVED
BRED YOUR CHILDREN ON MY GRAVE
AS MY SOUL PARTED TO WHERE
RAIN IS THE DEVIL AND CLOUDS ARE THE SAINTS

BUT A GONE LITTLE MEMORY I WAS NOT
FLOWERS IN YOUR GARDEN ATTRACT THEM BEES
LIVING TO TELL YOU THEY'LL LOVE YOU AND DIE
BUT NEVER WILL YOU TASTE THE SWEET OF THEIR HONEY


HONEY

This is Julian. You were not after his sting, he was the one after releasing his venom onto your core, because when he dies, he'll reappear as another life form, and then he'll be bigger, much bigger, than you.

X|V

A PATCH OF A PEARL

THE DEEPEST DEPTH

MOTHER PLANET GAVE THEM BIRTH

BUT SHE NEVER HAD WHAT THEY DID

AND THAT IS WHY

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

AND THAT IS WHY

THE WORLD IS POLLUTED

SO I THANK YOUR THIN VOICE, WOMAN

AND IF YOU SCREAMED

I KNOW FROM WHERE YOU GATHERED THE STRENGTH

AND IF YOU CRIED

I KNOW FROM WHERE YOU GATHERED THE SALT

IT IS FROM YOUR OCEAN

HENCE MY EXISTENCE, A PRIVILEGE YOU HAD GIVEN ME

AND ALLOW ME TO THANK YOU

FOR SHARING YOUR SALT WITH ME

VAGINA

Juliet. She is a woman who will never give herself away to a man. You might think, how could she honor herself yet keep her soul hostage never to leave the realms of her own body, of her vagina. She is 35. She will remind you that it is to women like her that you are committed, that it is to women like her you are dependent. One thing you did not expect, that she is silently looking at your virility, your masculine self, and somehow finding power to be as brave, as she is now. Far from what makes her a woman, she made you, and would rather spend her life looking at what she accomplished.