with words like fists landing blow after blow as he yanked up her skirt
when he came he would curse then call on God
dismount and call her
Eve
homework
is what he called it the older boy who took her to the back of the bus tall dark and ugly he schooled her that day before (her) first period
Eden Joshua is a NY native and has performed her poetry in such places as The Bowery Poetry Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Afrikan Poetry Theatre and Brooklyn Moon Cafe among others. She currently resides in East TN and is working on her first book of poetry.
you can find her here: http://www.facebook.com/edenjoshua
Sandstorms cutting with electrical breeze Totally parabolic icy bones mocking a pale face, making head covered prophesies and disco circumcisions Totally Asymmetric Stars shine through to a blind sky on desert cold nights With 40 Bedouins tracking jackal footprints in the pomelo bush Wiping their noses in citrus scents, waxing psychedelically Their dry cactus skin Cracking red from subliminal coma burn Scimitar slip: And there are sheep thieves on the getaway Heading to border crossing, Shalom Junction Flashpoint. Electric fence: Call the guard A million homos over the sandstone, socialized networking IDF bomb drops on dried river beds Calm abandoned camp sites, hollowed out car shells bullet-ridden mosque hiding in the Golan Riding in the Golan Druze side of the road Relics of 67, Syrian tank penetrated armor, rocket drop return to Gaza pocket full of falafel by the Wailing Wall Breaking blues Vampire Palestinian fetuses in apple jars, sold on eBay, BBC reports Morphed monikers, shotgun funerals Suicidal soliloquy. Bastard child at the open air market hawking dates by kilo His telekinetic eyes broadcasting hymnal SMS: “I got a sperm bottle waiting for you. I am a knife with serrated edges calling afternoon prayers. I am a camel dick: smoke hash out of me… I got ten Ukrainians drinking vodka in a caravan. Every time you piss. You solve the equation. Just a little more.”
Three superfluous words hang weightless objects of affliction.
Breeds helpless logic a cold lonely bed cobwebbed kisses and a numb pubic bone
Fractured by incessant failed relationship statuses girl you never learn.
This relentless falling in love with poets never to taste more than words
a curse.
The light preceded lonely darkness and you can spread out like a starfish
Waking up alone to light seeping through blinds
accompanied by squeals
from happy children who won’t witness another daddy substitute passing through from lustful night.
Kick around a ball then leave before they had a chance to remember his name.
Rather save those words peel away flesh dance in the mirror of self empowerment
Then choose that which you fully deserve.
Poetess Maria lives in Liverpool, where she howls at the moon and drinks Jameson whiskey, while writing tremendous prose and poetry. You can find a morsel of her work in the Clinical Brutal Anthology from Clinicality Press as well as other online & print publications.
I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow in my heart because my Doctor just announce to me that I will die in few months time because of extent damage of osephageal cancer. I have been suffering from this dreaded sickness for long, base on this development I want to will my money which is deposited in a security company to an individual who is willingly to build a charity home for orphanage and abandoned kids.
I am in search of a reliable person who will use the Money to build charity organization for the saints and the person will take 30% of the total sum. While 70% of the money will go to the charity and orphanage. I am from Sarawak Malaysia, my husband died 6 years ago as a result of car accident. i don't want a friend or someone i know to handle this project. I want the actualization of my dream to establish this charity home to come in reality even while am dead.
The total money in question is $3.5million dollars. I will provide you with other information's once you indicate your willingness.
I. THE PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS AND PERSONAL GROWTH
There are one million salmon-colored skulls that live in the folds of silver hands-
golden brain matter where gold matters in the darkest reaches...
New age tragedies are playing out in my nightmares & my insecurity is making a mule ofambition- smuggling the "goods" through a traffic tunnel from immediate family to ancestral pre-conception.
"HICE CHINGAL!" such breeding is a question mark that has bent itself into an obtuse angle standing next to a sign that says: REST STOP
The theories on virtue & free death are being smuggled in from a cartel of Nihilistic endeavors.
The words: "Beware wronging the hermit & if you wrong him, kill him." are being melted in a silver spoon.
A sense of overpowering lust is being loaded into a hypodermic & slowly inserted into the varicose veins of a distant future.
I wake up w/ the overwhelming sensation of the frosty shade of a sky blue. I am aware & have never had to shit so bad in my life.
A costume once belonging to an action figure packaged in plastic & calling itself the OVERMAN -is found in the back of the toilet floating just above the plug, before losing itself in the current between brown water & brain matter between truth & wishes between dreams & livelihood.
An innate obsession w/cannabanoids & caged street violence is reviewing the itinerary for me- that spans the next 20 years or so.
A dark baby boy has been born too early in the farthest depths of information- where long forgotten salmon-colored skulls are slowly shaped into marzipan & sold in the costumed streetsof DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, while I attempt to pull apart silver clenched hands.
II.FROM BORDERTOWN TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Brute force & lethargic posture are patrolling 'la burros de la bordertown'. The real borde rthat's receding too fas tin order to construct a proper wall to keep them in- el freaks y' la tools (spit).
Something of a mystery has latched onto a vile of wisdom. An iota of home has purchased a small room somewhere very...very... close & while it stares into the darkest reaches, it dreams of cat turds in rose beds & green diarrhea hanging from an open window sill on the freak's side of town.
Shrewd silence is tickling my funny bone when someone on the fence speaks up about corporate downsizing & Proposition 19.
III. EAST TO WASTE-AND ON TO 102ND
A meeting somewhere in the bowels of the Lower East Side- there's a room of self-absorbed tools, playing circa jerk 1980 HIGH & reminiscing when it was just good wholesome fun & not a burden.
They're calling each other addicts & when THEY disperse- some gather small armies outside some become soldiers themselves in a gang of unmitigated circumstance..
some are falling by the waste side some are circumvent some are cum receptacles some don't even know THEY'RE alive anymore..
An electric snow bunny has just boosted for the last time & never bothered to roll over even during the pivotal moment of survival.
She is no longer plugged-in, and the batteries die slowly as the Freaks continue to count the votes: "And the totals are in!" 54% to 46% majority have passed the new law banning further introspection based on loosely based-faith and schematics of an influenced brain wave that is sweeping the fair nation.
This means that 1 out of every 3 cabrons will contract the new-age illness & attempt to seize control over themselves through means of sating an intense sadistic fetish & immaculate cognitive design.
“When? Where? And why didn’t you phone me immediately afterwards!?”
“Listen, it was kinda fucked up. I… I didn’t want to tell anyone about it.”
“That’s understandable. We are talking about fucking a midget, after all, but still! Tell me about it, pretty please…”
“Alright, alright, so I’ve been using the ‘Casual Encounters’ section of Craigslist a lot recently to meet girls. Well, not meet them, but hook up with them, casually...”
“Gotta love that site.”
“I saw this ad for a ‘petite’ single white female, non-smoker, 26, looking for fun, and I answered it.”
“Usually most of those ads turn out to be porn spam.”
“I know. So I was wary, but the photo looked different than usual porn spam. It was a headshot from a weird angle, looked like it was self-taken from a camera phone in the bathroom, and her head was only in the bottom part of the mirror. She was sort of sexy… though I could tell she was a midget.”
“How did you know?”
“How do you not know? Midgets have very particular faces.”
“Yeah, that’s true.”
“So anyway, I had just taken some LSD and was watching the Fox News Channel. Big mistake…”
“What the fuck does the Fox News Channel have to do with the midget?”
“Nothing really.”
“Are you on acid now? Have you been taking it again before work?”
“Nah, and I’m not on it now, but I was the night I fucked the midget, some really potent shit I scored at a Dead show parking lot.”
“Fuck yeah! Damn hippies have the best shit. Back to this midget, though, please continue…”
“Anyway, yeah, okay, the midget. So I respond to her ad, and like 20 minutes later she replies.”
“That’s quick.”
“I know! And it gets weird too. Her name’s Bridget.”
“Bridget the midget?”
“Bridget the midget.”
“We shoot a couple emails back and forth, small talk. Then she, yes, she, suggests we meet at the bar down the street. Surprisingly, she lived only a few blocks away.”
“And you’d never seen her?”
“Nope. But I guess it might be easy to miss a midget.”
“You’re probably right. I bet a lot of people have midgets living near them and don’t know it.”
“So we meet at the bar, and she turns out to be even hotter in person. Had the rosiest cheeks I’d ever seen. Looked a bit like a midget Nicole Kidman.”
“A midget Nicole Kidman?! Dude!”
“A prime Nicole Kidman too. Not the cockeyed owl-looking bitch she is today.”
“I don’t know what Tom Cruise did to her, but it wasn’t right! Fucking Scientology…”
“Yeah, and I’m like tripping balls at this point, having trouble keeping a straight face because I’m at this bar slamming brews with a midget who looks like Nicole Kidman. Her voice sounded funny too. Midgets have very particular voices. She sounded like some shit from the Wizard of Oz and starts cracking all types of jokes. A fucking comedian, this midget was.”
“Soon enough I’m laughing so hard that I’m clenching my gut and beer’s shooting from my nose and she’s howling like a wolf and slapping on the table after every joke and people around the bar are looking at us crazy.”
“That’s not right, though. I bet midgets get weird looks all the time, even when they aren't cracking jokes.”
“We’re both pretty fucked up at this point. And she, yes, she, suggests we go back to her place… for ‘coffee.’”
“’Coffee’ with a midget. That’s fucking awesome.”
“You know, it was when we left our table that I really realized I was with a midget. After standing up from our chairs, I was just towering over her. She couldn’t have even been four feet tall.”
“Well, she is a midget.”
“Yeah...”
“So we’re walking back to her place and I’m wondering what it must be like, her place, like if all the doors were tiny, everything’s shrunken, what her toilet must look like, etc… If it’s a secret midget colony or something…”
“But we get there and it was a normal place; a nice, upscale, modern and fashionable one bedroom apartment, except she did have step ladders everywhere.”
“I guess she has to. She is a midget.”
“Once inside, she disappears into the kitchen, and I think she’s going to actually make coffee, as if the ‘coffee’ wasn’t just a euphemism.”
“But she comes out of the kitchen totally naked with a can of whipped cream in her hand. And damn, her body was hot. Had smallish but firm little tits with large light pinkish nipples, neatly trimmed blond bush, and was all together thin and shapely. She really did look like a naked Nicole Kidman, just in midget form.”
“Fuck…”
“Yeah, so I’m sitting there on the couch, tripping hard, seeing trails and colors everywhere, and like I’m saying, this midget walks out of the kitchen, naked, holding a can of whipped cream, and of course, I sprout instant wood.”
“Who wouldn’t?”
“She sits down on the couch next to me, doesn’t say a word, smiles and calmly hands me the can of whipped cream. I shake it up a bit, then spray some in between her legs, then suck the nitrous right of out of the can, and go in and commence the act of cunnilingus.”
“You ate out the midget?”
“One might think a midget’s vagina would be really tiny or something, but it was normal female sized. She even had a rather large clitoris.”
“Bridget the midget, with a large clitoris, wow…”
“So I’m eating away down there, totally slobbering all over her vagina, my face covered in whipped cream, and she’s all squirming and whimpering as I lick at her private personal part. And dude, I could have sworn that as I was eating her, I was hallucinating her vagina lips moving, speaking to me in a voice that sounded like Fran Drescher.”
“The ‘Nanny?!’ Whoa...”
“Her Fran Drescher talking vagina mouth pushed me over the edge, and I just couldn’t bear anymore foreplay. So I get up and tear off my clothes, kick off my shoes, grab the emergency condom out of my wallet, rip open the wrapper, roll the rubber over my manhood, and dive back down to the couch and mount her, missionary style.”
“Always wondered how someone would fuck a midget…”
“Plunging it in, I feel she’s tight as fuck, and I close my eyes and imagine that I’m fucking her, the midget, and Fran Drescher’s mouth at the same time, which was disturbing, but strangely arousing…”
“Dude, I always wanted to shove my penis in her mouth, just to make her shut the fuck up if nothing else…”
“And so I’m on this couch, pure beast-fucking this midget. Skin slapping skin sex sounds very audible. And she’s yelling loud, screaming and moaning, and I start screaming and moaning and cursing and dirty talking to her.”
“But then it gets even weirder… I’m pulling on her stubby little legs as I’m banging her, and suddenly, one of them comes off!”
“Dude!”
“Yeah, a prosthetic…”
“How did you not notice she had a prosthetic? Couldn’t you tell that she limped or something?”
“I guess I was tripping too hard to notice…”
“Dude…”
“So her prosthetic comes off, and I’m holding it in my hand and wondering if this is really happening or if it’s the acid.”
“Duuuude…”
“But I’m horny as fuck and figure I’ll just go with it and I keep on fucking her and screaming and she keeps on screaming, even louder now, like not even noticing her prosthetic leg had come off, and now I start hearing her next door neighbor screaming and banging on the wall, telling us to shut the fuck up, and all three of us are screaming in unison and then I start beating on the wall with the prosthetic leg, yelling shit at the neighbor and at the midget concurrently.”
“That’d definitely be some shit I’d complain to my landlord about if it was me living next door.”
“Pretty soon I orgasm and collapse on top of the midget, but then I start smothering her, because she’s so small… and I’m still holding her prosthetic leg in my hand too, so I get up off her and lie down on the other end of the couch.”
“And she reaches over, takes the leg out of my hand as if it’s no big deal. Then she reattaches it, picks up the can of whipped cream, and walks back into the kitchen. A minute later she comes out, still naked, holding a huge bong, almost as tall as her.”
“I thought she was a non-smoker?”
“As did I. But she didn’t say anything in her ad about being a midget w/a prosthetic leg, either.”
“Fair enough…”
“So we take some bong hits, listen to some music for a while, and even dance a bit.”
“You danced with the midget?”
“Yeah, she danced pretty well for having a prosthetic too. Did the latest hip hop moves, the ‘Dougie’ and everything.”
“Damn…”
“Then we sit back down on the couch and watch ESPN for a while. Turns out she was quite knowledgeable about sports. We soon get into a heated argument about who was the overall better quarterback, John Elway or Joe Montana.”
“Who’d she think was better?”
“I can’t remember…”
“But she got really mad about it and threw me out of her apartment.”
“Some people take sports far too seriously…”
“Tell me about it! You realize that when you’re tripping on acid and a naked midget covered in whipped cream, hopping around on a prosthetic leg, starts throwing shit and pushes you out the door.”
“If that isn’t a ‘teachable’ moment, I don’t know what is.”
“Yeah, I liked her though, wanted to call her the next day and see her again, but I don’t think I ever got her number. And I couldn’t remember exactly where she lived, either, because I was so fucked up when I went over there and more so when I left. Also couldn’t find her emails or her ad again on Craigslist.”
“Maybe you hallucinated the whole thing and just stayed home that night, tripped on acid and jerked off to midget porn…”
“You know, I probably did...”
“Fucking hippies, they always have the best shit.”