Selected Poems

Hermaphropoetics

from Solitary Workwoman

Part 3: Fire Clay
from The Joe 82 Creation Poems

Selections from
I am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

Not Be Essence That Cannot Be



     O WAFERSH TASHTE GOOD


                        o 6) o glutinous 
                        o glot of glory 
                        do an earthquake 
                        o shockhead (50ft) 
                        piss backward b 
                        o special friend 
                        twice o chrissakes, 
                        b o natural man
     (again in confession o wafersh tashte good)
                        shlike new, sho pleashe! 
                        fixsh my marriagesh 
                        everyshling allright 
                        shknock shknock help! 
                        shling shling 
                        a brigadier shcould 
                        it, itsh sho bad 
                        o engineershz fixsh
     (fluk hurricane was bad weather shtoilet shlike)
                        it itsh shzown shthe 
                        MY FLUSH, stush 
                        hung mush (Mrs) agony 
                        cooed o bridesmad 
                        crosh a fem and o 
                        monthly maN is bad 
                        o thief o shush 
                        (Mrs) agony hung
     (an animal pick worthy pick jist in jail breath)
                        out skullcap breed
                        o agony cooed
                           (Mrs)