Pasolini
First, after the spots in the Sun
the twenty-seven holes in the coronal
Then, the meeting in the hotel
with a man in a cape only more discreet Visconti
First, look at the blackened scar
an elbow like a piece of macaroni
Then on the plate
I nearly came while I was looking "No Hands"
First, both ways, crossing the
street to the traffic island
Then a big van painted multicolor
hippie style, a tiger across it The 60s
First, why don't you shave
your filthy face is burnt with oil
Then you could maybe eat
a bit of fruit like maybe, my little guava foreplay
First in the Mezzanine Palace
of the ancestors
Last on my list of like
required reading, get it? Lovecraft
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Padam Padam
Collected Poems
edited by Evan Kennedy & Jason Morris
Nightboat Books 2025
