PRO NUBIAN ANKH

The snake that was uplifted

is the vein within my form that thrives

the circuits of black anarchism

find it in a mottled hive

my dry bones are resurrected

by the river of blood that's shed

in fearless revolution, constitution

of the streets, of our prophets and our poets,

and the language that they seed

with the fruits of ceaseless struggle

from this shelf life to the next

to the pregnancy of gardens

and their green transcendent end.

PEGGED.

We've already been rimming

each other for about an hour.

Put some sweet vaseline in me.

I'm on all fours, trembling:

my dick is tearing up.

Put on that pretty little pink strap-on,

the one that adorns your female contours

so freakishly and fine.

I'm not ashamed to moan and

beg for it like a girl.  I prefer

to get fucked by a woman.

Let's make sure the strap

gently nudges your swollen clit,

so we can come together.

I can touch myself the way you did

last time I sodomized you.

Please put your dainty little hands

on my hips, stroke my ass

and call me your favorite bitch,

drive it up to the hilt

and pump me good.

I cum so hard that it coats

my whole hand like a milky glove.

Keep it in a minute, let me

praise you and thank you

as I surge in exhaustion.

Gently you withdraw from my asshole

and pat my butt, giving me your compliments

on how gorgeously I took it.

I collapse at your knees,

you pull off the strap

and swipe your wet cunt

with two fingers, sticking

them into my mouth.

I groan with gratitude

and watch as you lick

all the semen from my hand,

smiling.

I think we're married now.

But the ceremony continues:

I can't wait to spread my ass for you again.

ALPHA'S REST

I sit on the concrete block

atop your grave.  I placed it

here to keep your mortal shell

aligned with slow reintegration

into soil, away from scavengers.

Your sisters are alive inside

their pen.  You kept them

safe from harm, and now they live.

I just tossed them some snack seed:

Freckles and Speckles are busy

with it, pecking each particle

from between the little shafts

of sunlit straw.

Little rooster, your bravery lives

in my heart now, and I pray to it

nervously, here beneath

these formidable trees.

Fly with me, little one.  Keep me

company against the tyranny

of my kind.  Roost invisibly

in my ribcage: pluck the poison

from my veins and set me free.

PRACTOPIA*

I brought the buckets

filled with motley grapes.

I brought the albums

shimmering in crates.

Satanism means controlling fire.

Seed and egg survive upon this pyre.

They bomb us and they tear our forms apart:

we gave ourselves already to this art.

Our children know the way that fire feels.

They know the wound collapses time

before that fire heals.

This weal on Earth, we called that civilization.

But in its death we found another nation.

It is a spirit binding us to life.

The strife we feel we don't fear

like a knife.  The harmony we've earned

is hard and real.  Beneath the mask

so borderless and peeled.

The talkers talked but we

made love all night.  We're fucking

to renew our second sight.

Our babies grow and learn

to part the mist.  Their eyes

are angels forming into fists.

*  The title is derived from a talk given by anarchist activist Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin entitled 'Those Things that Result in Victories'.  The basic idea is that while utopia is not possible, better life practice is: that revolution and unity in freedom can revive the human spirit towards greatness, if not perfection.  The audacity to link my work with his was inspired by the great Greg Devlin, my mentor and dear friend, who died in 2014 but lives on in his poetry and in all those he inspired.

THE OLIGARCH KILLER

First I'll staple your hands to your desk:

I brought a carpenter's toolbox.

Then I'll fuck your face with a baseball bat,

using nice, long steady strokes.

My hands are already dirty

from all the work you don't do.

Then I'll whack at your elbows

until those arms come apart,

skin sliding like a pair of socks

from thin muscle and bone.

I've already removed the fish

from your very impressive fishtank:

this is a fishnapping.  They are swimming

in a bucket in my truck.  You'll have no

such luck: you're getting dunked, son,

headfirst with all the little that's left of you.

Murder can be sweet, murder can be delicious,

murder can be clean like doing the dishes.

I replace my stapler and leave whistling.

Your feces turn the fishtank brown

from green as we enter the present.

No vacancy remains: you were never a resident.

Deep breath goes through the earth

I won't resist the plunge

of these deep purple ravines

water is seeking my vacant heart

through the channels of an older rain

I call on all the spirits of devotion

who walked a fine ledge

carving all the ruins of the air

into fleshly being

building bones inside their souls

setting them upright in magnetic swamps

and lighting their astral hair on fire.

The grins grow from the charcoal

linking to the glint of black water

and the sent light of dead stars

falling through the bars of heated darkness

growing roots into an engorged sky.

Arrival with black eyes

and gummy veins.

A dark apartment

outside history.

Asbestos breath.  The sinks run

with the blood these trials shed.

A line of stones leads

to a deeper door.

I'm going there

to find my sacred whore.

Jerusalem has changed.

The beast they've caged

can only be deranged.

I pace around my room.

This place they scraped,

it used to be a womb.

I've scraped it too.  I have no right

to ask to be renewed.  But I do.