Vienna 1921…. where, cigarladen, the “social vampire” steals from a drunken greenhorn his daddy’s crowns:Stören Sie nicht der Spiel!A great admirer of ti… Read More

  I searched my heart, the street, my ex-‘s habits, my family I searched them all for opportune  neuroses That I could jot down for my poetry And calm my nerves and hide… Read More

How creep and crawl the future seemsto those of us lying in this house of bones:rules here the authoritarian spineand its homo erectus, her jungle gym.Lumbagos dawn on the painstrewn shoreso… Read More

 She bleeds all in her dress on the back seat of the taxi Home from the bone Another good girl dawn   Even in my Emily Dickinson silence I can always hear the click click click Of… Read More

The penis sadness of so many menWho ran in their youth in packsWith fee fie fo and fee fie fumConfusing sex with jumping jacksSettles like a pall on their older faces- The judges, lawyers, t… Read More

Song for the Bankrupt Yachtsman What did you do in the deluge, Daddy When the floods breathed together What did you do in the deluge, Daddy That you alone survived. After forty days, insis… Read More

 Nearer my God to thee„An Bord der »Titanic« befanden sich fünfundzwanzig Millionäre, die zusammen mehr als 100 Millionen Pfund repräsentieren.“I… Read More

 She sings her own song on the blue guitarOut of the world of money and pest controlI, the heavenly one, rose up and spoke the truthVermin are hidden in Nineveh’s every wall,And p… Read More

Léotard “qui tenait le spectateur sous l’empire d’un Plaisir indefinissible » did not die on the flying trapeze in some circus tragedy. He died of small… Read More

Wrapped in a digestive absence the citizen of beachtowels opposes a dead eye to the inanity of the ocean’s endless flourishes, as though, perpetual spectator she already knew the… Read More

Numerus clausus A little extermination is mixed into the formula. In indifferent arms they lay smudged by the dark angel from whose connosieur’s fingers they were untimely taken. … Read More

The final girl is a trope in horror movies, referring to the female protagonist who remains alive at the end of the film – Merriam Webster dictionary The final girl writes h… Read More

“Honeysuckle. So named because of the old but entirely erroneous idea that bees extracted honey therefrom. The honeysuckle is useless to the bee.” What, then, is useful to th… Read More

 The Convention souvenir show- Karen ChamissoBubble cup hair style, wig wardrobe MidgeThe nightclub seedy eyes of the fifties BarbieRatpack wasted in her fuck me night ware.“Rare… Read More

- by Karen Chamisso 1Cherchez the bitch! Cherchez the bitch!And all the elders go tsk tsk tsk. 2. Monica Lewinski, I think of you!I’m just such another dixiecup ingenueAnd have loved… Read More

I. UnnamedFound-and-pound her little mut meFound-and-pound we all becomeFound-and-pound was sheTubed up so that the broken drumOf her lung could still functiMyself the one whacked out withou… Read More

  With her blood in the water short silk slip - her sleeping giant eyes - Isn’t she the cutest knock on your door Since you made it to the big girls club? She’s knuckled d… Read More

Life… makes nothing happen.I, too, heard the cowbells MomCrossing the border into SwitzerlandAnd of course I thought of you.I thought of Heidi, and then of youAnd then of you and meWa… Read More

 Geography lessonThe clams clamor on the shoreI walk by – a tempus fugitiveleaving behind a bitch’s spoor.This is life. This is how I live.We’re all undressed in its b… Read More

Surely, giving the finger to the man tailgating you on Highway 10 is poetry too, and should be counted where they count such things in Rilke’s heaven. Among my tropes and ruses and t… Read More

 BluesOn a bleak day I lay in the bleak sheetsEight stories above the puddles in the streetsWhere the rain jumped, and the cars were ill:Everybody in Paris swallowed some kind of pillIn… Read More

Her little life lay on the bedConcentrate as that swordIntent, edged, unsheathedProphesized by the LordNot to bring peace but more lifeThan any outside her closed doorAnd she interred like a… Read More