beat for the gods, etc i take it in sense, feel it, i’m a pretty piece of flesh, his fish dipped in ranch
draw thy tool, u man u beast w. horny rage, yr torture prince beseeming ornament [weird old men depart] swung his sword & broke wind withal hiss’d in porn’s interpellating thrust & blow—butthurt, came more&more till the prince came O, where is romeo
private in his chamber pens himself an artificial night so secret to his bit bud his wormy sweet sounding bucking young studs come, romeo, such is love’s transgression prest & propagated EXEUNT
romeo, doth thy boff my vex’d & choking sea? so in sadness, on the DL, do i live dead to tell it?
scruff ye slush-drunk leaky sleazed his cakey pissoir swagger all haloed rotting lordship, mammalian, and i, by god so ripely bridal’d, do feed that dogma till i die
horrend brute feudal’d under
i bade him come & yeah, quoth he, dost thou fall upon thy face? & yeah, quoth i, then lay yr wormwood to my dug & in the sun, under dove-house wall, my lord dug & felt it bitter, pretty fool, with jest & gambol suck’d a big sore tooth ((tut tut tut)) i know the language, i pray thee come, knock and ENTER, & no sooner in but betook him to his legs & he was done
o senseless cock-a-hoop stick’st in such muck what have we in bed asleep i dream’d of you
dumb colt anon a nonce a nose, you foot it, boy nuzzled my crupper, sluttish hairs, & smelly pig tail
this is the trick, this is the hag i lie on my back expect nothing, beget nothing
warts words bloom in spectral legions along our lonely our pilgrim lips & bitter industry O trespass the “weft” of me has “slipped” give me my sin again
Author's Note: “butch mercutio” adapts a quip from Pete Zias.
from the book DREAM BOAT/ Cleveland State University Poetry Center
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