Butt Germs
“And Anticlea came, whom I beat off…” Ezra Pound, Canto I
“And I came./And I flowed in upon thee, beat them off…” Ezra Pound, The Tomb at Akr Caar
“But Flows don’t give a fuck. They don’t give a fuck about representation.” Felix Guattari
There is always a now
In which the bodies of our
Lovers are being discovered
No longer analogous to the
Now when we remember
Other bodies bodied in our
Reflections because of
Butt germs we refrain
From holding hands
.
Because we were kissing
Others became afraid
Of butt germs
.
The bare facts: I’m
Pos.
.
Negative until he came
He tells me the bare facts
.
Leap on one another
Know one another
Live & Hairy
.
The blood rite of the bare
Fact: shot gold on my hand
.
All of the lights
Tongue over tongue
Body over body
Leap on one another
Heart over heart
Shot gold
.
Seeking
Doubtless
Sex in
Butt germs
.
Ten million germs on the face
Of it 49 germs per square inch
Part risk & cost let everything
Bend six months in curing ban-
ish whatever might lead them
To think past the bare fact
.
Supposedly we did
Delicious things?
We did delicious things.
Shot gold.
.
The algebra of butt germs queers
Our geometry
.
For three months
Did not know the taste
Of butt germs
.
Too many positive
Bare facts
Shot gold
.
I got butt germs
We believe the attraction is chemical
.
Start with Galactus or Whitman
Someone who at least swallows
Planets almost impossible to
Judge what each understands
Of the other and to be frank
Copulation, ingestion, secretion
Is clearly the point
From there it is mainly a matter
Of how you feel about butt germs.
.
I’ve been licking
Toilet seats at
The clubs again
Because I know
You take all
That vitamin C
And have to
Shit when you
Go out dancing.
.
We do delicious things
Lips shut sucking
Cover our lips & eyelids
With butt germs.
.
Gathering swallows
And bumping, indulging in
Bulbous excrescence
Inside the tittering rolling
Of all things stick the
Breathing tube down my
Throat and suck my teeth up
I did all that sticky
For nothing.
.
And in the middle
Of things
Some flabbier variant
.
Once you utter butt germs
And no further thought: by any addition,
& in proportion to that addition, you
Introduce deficiency.
.
Humping the floor equals amazing
.
& we sit here
Worried about butt germs
.
Artisanal meth is amazing
.
Butt germs are a sigil
against broken hearts
.
My love holds
Me in the flame
Of love if harm
Harm to ourselves
Invention of butt germs
More or less equal to
The thing explained.
.
All the good ones
Are killed cruising
For rough trade.
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I would like to be
Your dude—like
When I’m pulling
Out of the garage
You come running
Waving your arms yelling,
“Love You, Dude!”
“Love You, Dude!”
