PINK TEETH

YOUR HEAVY THICK TONGUE SLOWS MY JAW TO BITE.

YOUR TRYING CANNOT BE ESCAPED, IT'S YOUR TASTEFUL PESTERING THAT I LIKE.

YOUR BITTER STICKS TO MY ROOF AND MY TONGUE LAPS IT.

I AM CLAWING, DROOLING WHAT LINGERS,

BUT A CREATURE PANTING AND FOAMING IT.

AN ALLEY DOG WITH SOMETHING CHEAP
IS SPOILED SWEET.

A GLIMPSE OF THE MUSCLE ON YOUR SHOULDER,

AND I AM THAT DOG WITH BLOOD-STAINED PINK TEETH.

TENDERFAT

WET NAILS

I LOVE HAZELNUT CHOCOLATES

AND KICKING MY FEET.

I LOVE TO WALK

ON DAMP WOOD WITH LONG SOCKS AND MY TOES POINTING IN.

SLURRING MY STEPS SINCE I WAS A FOOLISH LAZY GIRL,

JUST A DOLL PULLED ALONG BY STRINGS.

I ATE ON FINE CHINA AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY I SHOULDN'T.

I BECAME DRUNK ON 4-YEAR-OLD WINE AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY I COULDN'T.

CRAVINGS I HAVE BUT I WOULDN'T.

I'M IN A BIG FANCY HOUSE AND I CANNOT LIVE IN IT.

I'M ON A BIG FANCY BED AND I CANNOT FUCK IN IT.

I'M AN IMPATIENT WOMAN AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR MY NAILS TO DRY,

BEFORE I THINK OF YOU AND FANTASIZE.

TENDERFAT

HIGH

OH MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON, MEET ME WHEN I TAKE ONE LONG DRAW OF YOU AND PUSH THROUGH YOUR CHEST PRICKLY LIKE A GARDEN. IT'S ROUGH AND SMELLS DANK AND INTOXICATES ME. THE SWEAT TRICKLES DOWN YOU AND WETS MY PALMS AND MY EYES BURN. I'M RIPPING AND PUSHING AWAY THE BRANCHES THAT GAURD ME FROM YOUR SHADOW, FOR IT IS ONLY YOUR SHADOW AS YOU ARE ALREADY IN THE OTHER ROOM. YOUR HANDS ARE ALREADY IN ANOTHER PATCH OF SOIL. I AM JUST A BREEZE. PARALYZE ME AND BREAK MY SPINE. AN ALTAR FOR YOU MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON. IN THROUGH A LONG SHEER TUBE AND OUT LIKE THE WINTER EMBERS, LIKE BUBBLES UNDER WATER. A DOE RAN TO A TREE, A NAKED TRAMPLE TO FIND THE BERRIES, AND I DROWNED IN A SWAMP. I WAS BREATHING WHEN I INHALED WHAT YOU WERE ALSO SHOVELING INTO YOUR OXYGEN TANK. WHAT YOU GROW AND THEN SCRAPE OFF YOUR TONGUE. WORDS OF MANY WORLDS I WANT TO CRAWL INSIDE EVERY CREVICE OF YOUR MIND AND CONTROL YOU. CHANTINGS AND INCANTATIONS. DEMONS AND DEMONS AND DEMONS. THE WAY YOUR FLICK YOUR NECK AND SHOUT OUT AND I CAVE IN AND MY STOMACH ACHES AND I AM CLENCHING IT AND IT AROUSES ME AND I AM THE WET GROUND BENEATH YOUR FEET. KNOW ME. BEND DOWN AND KNOW ME. PRESS AND SINK YOUR FINGERS INTO MY MOISTNESS. I LOOK UP TO YOU LIKE THE MOON, THE STARS. THEY HAVE DIED AND YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU HAVE SEEN DEATH. YOU...

PLEASE. SEE ME.

YOU HANDS ARE A MOUNTAIN'S SIDE, A FOSSIL ON THE SHORE, AND IT'S ROUGH. ALL ITS LAYERS I WANT TO KNOW. TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME AND TELL ME. I DUST YOU OFF WITH FLESH AND A COTTON CLOTH AND YOU CRUMBLE. COWARD! I WANT TO KNOW! YOU FASCINATE ME. I AM JUST A BREEZE. PARALYZE ME AND BREAK MY SPINE. JUST LIKE HONEY LET US BE. OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE. SLIPPERY SWEET AND WET AND STICKY AND SLICK AND SWEAT. ROUGH AND MIXED AND STUBBORNLY DRIPPING. WRING ME DRY. UNDER OUR FINGERNAILS, ATTACHED TO OUR GUMS. WE TASTE US AND US AND US. ARMS LIKE THICK ROPE, TONGUE LIKE AN ANCHOR AND I AM DOWN. KNOW SOMETHING SOFT FOR ONCE, OPEN ME UP. AN EGYPTION THRONE FOR YOU MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON. I MUST HAVE YOU AT LEAST ONCE IN MY LIFETIME. BE A CAGE AROUND ME, KISS ME BREATHLESS. YOUR HAND IN MY HAIR, YANK AND BREAK MY SPINE, BITE THE DARKENING OF WHERE MY HILLS PEAK. YOU CAN KNOW ME. KNOW WHAT KILLS ME. USE THAT AGAINST ME...AND DON'T LIE, DON'T TEASE. I WAS ALREADY YOURS.

TENDERFAT

WITCHCRAFT

I PUT HER NAME IN A JAR OF HONEY SO SHE WOULD LOVE ME.

FOR THE FIRST TIME I RESEARCHED THE PRETTY OF LILIES IN CASE SHE ASKED ME.

AND I SCRUBBED THE DEATH OFF MY BODY,

I HAD BEEN DYING FOR TWO WEEKS.

ALL CONDENSED WHAT WOULD BE NINE MONTHS OF EXPECTANCY.

AND OFF, IT CAME OF IN ROSEMARY AND SALT AND CINNAMON.

STOUT SCARRED HAND GRIPPED A VINE THAT I COULD HAVE HARVESTED.

BUT UNRIPE FRUIT - THE KIND THAT BLOSSOMS IMPATIENCE - NEVER ESCAPED MY STOMACH.

SO I BECAME FULL ON NOTHING BUT HATRED

AND WHAT CRAWLED UP FROM THE PIT AND UP MY ESOPHAGUS BECAME INDIFFERENCE.

TENDERFAT

STOMACH ACID

OH TO HAVE A BODY!

I THINK I MIGHT VOMIT! AND I AM DROOLING ONLY FOR

APPLES.

MAYBE THE ONLY THING I CAN DO

IS SIN AND THINK YOU GODLY.

AND I AM THIRSTY!

OH TO HAVE A MIND THAT LICKS DOWN MY SPINE

AND CRADLES MY STOMACH LINING!

THE IMFLAMMATION, I'M SO SENSITIVE!

AN IRRITANT, SWALLOWED INTO MY DIGESTIVE

SYSTEM AND STOMACH CRAMPS

AND BODY SPASMS.

...IF I AM EATING AND I THINK OF YOU,

AM I EATING YOU?

TENDERFAT

STILL WATER

ALL THE WAITINGS.

IN THE WATER I AM, STILL.

PLEASE STILL MY WAITING.

SO SHE LEADETH ME THROUGH THE STILL WATER.

OVER HER SHOULDER, HER HAND BECKONS ME ONWARDS.

GOD, MARKED IN OIL ON MY HEAD TO WATCH THE WAITING.

NOT TO TO END OR HEAL IT, BUT TO DELIGHT

IN THE INFESTING.

BUT AS OUR SACRED SEXUALITY DECOMPOSES INTO ALL ITS PARTS,

WE BEGIN TO WADE SLOWLY,

WE BEGIN TO LAST LONG.

HER FLESH GIVES AND FALLS APART, ROTTEN BUT FRUIT.

AND ALL THE HOLY, WE POLLUTE.

STAINED FINGERTIPS DRIP TO MY PALMS PRESSED INTO HER TENDER FAT AND AM REFRESHED.

WE ARE BLESSED.

TENDERFAT