Excerpts from Lara Glenum’s poetry manuscript, JUNK SHOT, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.
I’m not girl material
I’m boatload
of sicko brat
My Lil Pony Puker
U r lost among flabby stars
I’m punking the irons
in2 my skin horse
The shut eye
of luminous genitalia
Cross my devils
with yr licky porker
Here is one
with a drippy drippy bone
2 stuff
in2 my media hole
A fountain of meat + spumata
makes the day ok
The porcine bleat
of empress bombs
The tunnel of bodies opens
& u go corkscrewing thru
Come out Come out
& tinkle on my jugs + hotbots
I’m a jellyfish
w the miseries
Call an ambulance
Waah Waah
My pussy broke
We r strapped
2 eachother
like some species
of occult glamour
I discharge my titters
over the bodies piling out
of the glass
The reanimation of my pie
in a funk of vex
My eyes camp
backward in my head
My burned-out vision
crackles on
Even mid-plague
here comes
St. Boner
U r dripping in2
my femmebot
Peel the bad days
away from my
one ensorcelled eye
This is a dumbwich
made of two slices
A creamy spread
of legs
Some random meat
between
My miasmal hunk
of perv
Jingle Jingle
The fairy queen’s here
2 grant u a mask of lamb meat
while u jerk it
in the piglight
Drop a fizzbolt
in2 my saddy blubber
I’m sucko
in the headgland
The shame horse
saunters in
Its pussy in full view
Peek-a-boo fright gown
+ sea urchin stilettos
The fizz dripping out
of my eye sockets
catches fire
& burns down my cakeface
The way I rub yr brains
against my clit
My gluey matter
Yr one good claw
scrabbles across
the imperial weather room
The freakbirds gnarl up
the crummy sky
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lara Glenum is the author of four books of poetry: Pop Corpse, Maximum Gaga, and The Hounds of No (all from Action Books), and All Hopped Up On Fleshy Dumdums (Spork Press). With Arielle Greenberg she is also the co-editor of Gurlesque: the new grrly, burlesque, grotesque poetics and the forthcoming digital second edition, Electric Gurlesque. She’s currently at work on a text-based transmedia project, I M YR FAVRIT SOBJECT: Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies. She teaches in the MFA program at LSU.