You are fire your dress is fire . . .
. . . like an everlasting flower unsoiled
–Sayat Nova

From sky she came
perched our wrestling ring,
in a Tito’s t-shirt
a cigarette burn
at the block party, she
had a Lohan holiness
in clown shoes.

Escaped Lazarus, incestuous
brother w/ cracked ankles &
a lost dog—Religious, Supple,
she carried stringed wands for instrument,
narcotics, her American spiral dance.

The Vikings never got her though,
she’d told us, they’ll get you
threatened us with her scolding
reshaping her children of G.

Our Lady! Queen! Bowing low and drugged,
we ask for your blessing,
your virgin fuck
in Christ-dress
Lavinian wrists

Next day I fasted,
her scent on my fingers.

we keep fucking that chikin.
no substitute for damnation,
we maul with meat wads, force
clotted feathers into chasmal crotch.
later, we pluck the plumage,
roast the demon banty for birthday lunch.

let the pecker rot.

BATHING IN YOUR HOUSE
DRESS
DOES THE LAUNDRY
DOES FOR A CLEAN CROTCH
AND CLEAN LAUNDRY
GREASE
PENCIL POETIC BAR
GIRL NYLON RUNS
YOUR LATEST
MASTERPIECE

Eat your makeup
Kill everyone now
Do my balls mama

Eat dog shit
Can you fuck
as good as your mother?

Eat police men
Beauty always gives
me a hard on

Eat Crackers
Just ‘cause you got them
big udders doesn’t mean

you’re something special
Eat your eggs
God, I wish

I lived in Connecticut!
Eat puke
Who wants to die for art?

Always waiting for your hockey grin/ the pierce of your sea-weeded harpoon/ an axe in my forehead, perhaps/ I wouldn’t mind the burn of your rope around my neck/or the force of you slamming me against a tree-mid-sleeping-bag/ the crunch of my bones against its trunk./ In fact I’m hoping for it Jason, come catch me, finally, stalk me with your Hodder gait/ your ghostfacesuicidekilla pimp walk./ Every day is Friday the 13th/ catch me catch me catch me/ be a good boy, shove a knife through my tits/ knitting needles through the ears/ machete my gut/ you half-drowned deformed little fuck.

Jessica Lauffer is featured in Edition: Guest Editor, Alex Jovanovich