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The Jealousies
by
Benjamin Stainton
OUT NOW
31st December 1999
This
brooding city floods
with love & burgeons
in a surge of frenzied reds.
The
warm bodies
offer up their waters.
Tower
Bridge - consumed
by the weight of elated tongues.
Chinks in the wet concrete
house tiny eyes & fires.
You
gasp & swallow
the flaming river in gulps.
I cock my ecstatic limbs
under the exploding moon.
Release
his swollen hand &
inhale my hips.
His alcohol head is hacked off
in the scything of the stars.
We
unhook our bones
for a last stroke of London's chin.
Our
mouths suck
the biting night, whole.
& pink fingertips tingle in secret.
Black
Cynthia
The Sanderson stinks of day-old drinks.
He pours himself thick again
while I drift like 'Cleopatras corpse.
The streetcar idles. I need wipers.
Spector oozes from the chamber,
through a screen of green smoke.
Fat bottles, fag-ends & flowers
smile like my daddy. El Diablo
makes my tongue foam.
*
He
stomps out in time for cracks
to appear under eyeliner.
A tiny white Jewish Sarah Vaughn.
Bruised lips. Never trust a mirror.
The real damage is internal. No, no, no.
Remember Cynthia; always close.
My baby has grown fresh bones.
He's a skinny devil in Soho
with a fucking trilby for horns.
*
Knives
- too many knives
making purple lines in powder
& a lime satin dress, slashed.
Amy, Amy, Amy - bandaged.
My blood is the wrong colour.
I imagine excess as a pin-up girl.
The call-girl tickles my lip,
lowers her straps & circles a nip;
more - more - more. Thirsty bitch.
*
Papped
outside the gin-hall!
Speedballs with a beady libertine!
Caught limp in a shmedia net!
Calm. Calm down. Stop
the splurging vein & run a bath.
Quieten the fiery cunt & step away.
But I love him like Billie
loved Louis McKay. Like a burnt
spoon. My waist eats itself.
21st August 2004
Este amor prístino tiene raven-pelo…
A proud bull with puffed chest,
stands
surveying his lusty women
from the coastal hotel roof.
I
scuff bronze dust with a hoof,
wilting on my beachhead floor.
This
sun polishes glass like water,
forming beads on the bare tans.
The
clouds remain aloof,
so I drink the sea.
She
emerges in red,
carrying a familiar scent of pears.
Ringlets
drip dark holes in the sand.
Her face is framed by salt &
fresh
as a lemon grove.
I opened her mauve dress once,
in
a tremble before awakening.
Freckles rise to the brim & wink,
like
pale roses speckled with ink.
The Spanish tide swallows me in pieces.
She fishes my scarlet heart back to shore.
Este amor prístino tiene raven-pelo…
Words
The
room is a red chrysalis,
& I, its fat pupae. Spindly evil
smells my helpless worm.
Its drone becomes berserk.
Ungainly
plastic hands
roil over themselves
for a dip inside my hollow.
I
am eternal.
Eternally scraping
light from the lids of others -
she,
glitter in thick blackness,
he, digesting plump forever.
The rest are pencil jottings
in the margin. Erasable.
Years
of sludge pass; beyond.
*
The
tired vulva unclamps.
I vomit perfume. My sack splits
& a searing white
pours from the formless mass.
Words;
like raving colossi,
rip the remaining tissue.
I
yank free my tender lip,
puffed with fire
& the flower of ecstasy,
large
enough to fill a world,
yet nothing solid leaks
when I try speaking.
The mouth is a blitzed city.
Failure: my grandest birth.
Ella
Like
the coiling mouth of the evening sea,
my love for her light opens & closes,
she cracks open the sullen heart of me,
I,
creaking like a storm riven jetty,
love, marking my stave while night exposes
the darkened branches of a cypress tree,
we
burn our bridges with hard liberty,
yet soften, aglow as Moortown dozes
or wakes, hungry for a first cup of tea,
I
thirst & burst for a ripened berry
to bite; Ella, who never supposes
to judge the shadow of bitterest me,
yet
still we mingle as one tragedy -
she is my bed & cascade of roses,
I am her river & frayed sanctity.
Green
dawn bleeds into the skin of she,
sleeping while nature gently composes
the coiling waves of the sunlit sea,
she breaks over the open heart of me.
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