Project Description
Rebel Sex and Cholera
if all we live on
is breath
and inquiry,
the certainty
in a bead
of shit honey
may be considered
smut.
there they are:
whole life-cycles
of Florida bees
crammed
and airlifted
to the bodega
where I buy
my favorite
five-dollar
erotica.
•
in the future
love drones
will serve the war drones
chai latte
and our
carnivore tantrums
may be considered
smut.
you have
the jowls
of a brisket
fetishist
but even some
garden variety
soup bones
get you in the mood
for horizontal
jiu-jitsu.
•
nebulas
of dust
may be considered
smut
when they
coalesce.
first billions of years
existed,
then billions more
until suddenly
fashionistas
in utero.
the dimpled
ingénue.
and you’ve been
skimping
on the alimony
ever since.
James Kelly Quigley
James Kelly Quigley is a graduate of New York University whose poetry has appeared in Catfish Creek, Minetta Review, West 10th, and The American Journal of Poetry. He was born and raised in New York.
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