My wife has been pregnant 87 times. Several of our children are also
pregnant. My toddler’s toddler’s skin is ripped in suture.
Our bedroom is overflowing.
My teeth make me feel self-conscious. The hair around my anus is long as night. I might braid it for a bonnet, or wind a noose.
My stomach is spackled with McDonald’s.
When I ejaculate, my wife starts growing. She does not believe in
dilly-dally. Her parents raised to become a raiser, as will our
children be, as theirs: each one squirming with precision, gifted with
such screech.
Sometimes she lets me on her teeth.
I am a father. I am a finder. Everything I find, I fuck. Every fuck I find I will remember by the gleaming of child grease.
Most days when I wake up I've forgotten. I walk around a while maybe
whistling. Maybe I drink a little beer. Then I see a child and I think:
Fuck. I think: Fuck fuck.
Our newest child was born with pubic hair. The hair was blonde and
matted and so soft we used it for a pillow. If we cut the hair, it grew
back a different color. The hair was growing very fast. By day two the
hair had spread all up over his torso. By the third day he
couldn’t breathe. By the fourth day we couldn’t find the
fridge and were forced to eat the larvae that’d grown around us.
By the fifth day we ate the child and shat him back to grease and
obsolescence.
Still, the child could love itself. The child became a tonality lodged
in the theme song of certain TV programs. The child had read most of
Samuel Beckett.
I am afraid.
I am allowed to judge myself without you judging me for judging as long
as I am judging myself at the same time as someone else.
This is the voice of no voice. I am not speaking.
I will ejaculate forever.
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Dick Palace channeled Blake Butler
via Josh Maday as seven windows went to fold, gyrating Fried Appetizer
Sampler Plates in T.G.I. Friday's restaurants across the world.
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DICK PALACE 1 via Blake Butler via Derek White
DICK PALACE 2 via Blake Butler via Heather Anne Mullins
DICK PALACE 3 via Blake Butler via Gene Morgan
DICK PALACE 4 via Blake Butler via Bradley Sands
DICK PALACE 5 via Blake Butler via Go-Go Rasputin
DICK PALACE 6 via Blake Butler via Josh Maday