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POETRY


poems of the month

rejoice in the dog

post-millennium maggot

dispatches from the war against the world


albanian poems

french poems in honour of jean genet

the hells
going on

suicide for
non-beginners

fearful symmetry

book disease

foreground
trouble

the transcendental hotel

cinema of the blind

lament of the earth mother

uranian poems

haikai by okami

haikai on the edge

black hole of your heart

jung's motel

leda and the swan

confession from belgrade

gloss on rilke

jewels and shit: poems by rimbaud

villon's dialogue with his heart

vasko popa:
a shepherd of wolves ?

the rubáiyát of omar khayyám

imagepoem

 

BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE

400
revolutionary maxims

nice men

 

ESSAYS

a muezzin from the tower of darkness

being or television

satan in the groin

womb of half-fogged mirrors

overcoming tourism

anti-fairy tales

the dog of sinope

this sorry scheme of things

the bektashi dervishes



Nuadú, God of War

 

irishgenius.org

field guide to megalithic ireland

houses for the dead

french megaliths

egregious.org


 


 


A letter from
a Canadian reader:

"Lots of great reading:

it's been a while since I got a hard-on
from reading poetry!
:)

I went back again to look at the site, to see if I could pick out what had most connected for me, and found I couldn't pick out any one idea/image over another - I think what most draws me to a person's work is if they communicate ideas or perceptions or constructions that I've been unable to express, or find expressed: sometimes things so basic to me I can't even see them until pointed out. It's partly "hey! someone else experienced that too!" - a suprise; and partly it's revelatory, "aha! so that's what that is!"

And then of course there is the great pleasure of *new* ways of seeing.

In the poems on your site there was one or more of those on most every page.

Also: I have the strangest sensation that I know you well, after reading the poetry - not just your work, but you .

That doesn't often happen for me."

- William Pusztai

 

 


 

 

"Men should be encouraged to look at each others' bits.

Penises, I'm inclined to believe, are good things. They needn't be hidden under a bushel."

Adam Clayton of U2

 



from gramps31 @hotmail.com

"After spending an hour or more at your site, I feel as though I know you. Few have put so much of themselves in plain view. I enjoyed most your Uranian Poems, some of which awakened in me the same urge and unspeakable desire which I think prompted you to write them.

Oh what glory there is in cock and ball, in moustache and lip and pelted shoulder!

And humbled I was too, as I was sent thumbing through my dictionary to pull out the meaning of prose and verse, sprinkled so purposely and effectively with The Oxford's rarer forms. Keep it coming, I will visit often."

- Clint.

 

 



 

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"A man can realise his sexuality only through a sexual relationship
with another man."
- Marlene Dietrich


"I would rather be condemned for what I am than accepted for what I am not.
But sex, like video, is a compulsive illusion.
"
- Teaching Wolf


THE COMPULSIVE ILLUSION

URANIAN-PHILADELPHIC POEMS

by

Anthony Weir

 


Love is
Soup Dream
Life is
Dream Soup



 

A RED HERRING

Urinals are strange places
where men stand like itinerant sweet-
peas against temporary trellises
and fumble.


Men are lucky:
they can stand while they piss
and play cards, or violas
- or kiss.

        When I was a child
        high toilet-walls
        were greenly-defiled
        by years of competitions
        of boys
        raising litre by metre
        .

        Men are lucky:
        they can stand while they piss
        and angle for strange fish

        like Saint Peter.


        (from Cinema of the Blind )





        FORESKIN DELIGHT

        (A pity it can't be cut and let to grow again
        like fingernails)

        When I have had great sex
        my cock does not get cheesey.
        Love makes
        "personal hygiene"
        deliciously easy.

         

        LIMERICK IS NEARLY AS UNPLEASANT
        AS DUBLIN

        A Lesbian princess from Dallas
        took a gay porno-star to her palace.
        She picked up a knife
        and he ran for his life
        because he didn't want to learn
        about the Eighty Eight Ecstasies
        that might be entered
        without a phallus…

         
         
          PINK DOLLAR POEM

        Mata Cheney
        the Manatee-milk cheese-
        maker sells her product
        in small quantities
        to Washington D.C.'s
        smartest of the smart
        at a price to make
        a boxer weak at the knees.

        Her ex-husband, Fury
        (big, black and uncut - and
        I'm not talking hair or fingernails),
        sends his personal
        product in small quantities
        at unmentionable
        prices to queer
        guys on the Keys.

        It's horses for courses .
        Now that they've got
        together again
        for business
        reasons, they're jointly
        happy with their cornered
        markets and their
        sources.
         
        (from Work in Progress)

         


        FOREST SONG

        The darkness is
        The darkness is good
        The forest is good
        to its people

        In the forest I AM
        Outside the forest I'm TO DO

        I am naked
        standing by a pool
        while the moon admires its full
        reflection in the full water

        The monkeys have stopped screaming
        where I passed by
        in my moonskin

        And everything is quiet as the moon
        as the moon and I make love
        and I make moon-milk in moonlight

        All quiet but for the sound
        of moon-scattering water I dive into
        after little monkey-cries
        of fitness.

        (adapted from three early poems)


          
        DEEP DOWN

        Everybody really knows that only animal
        satisfactions satisfy
        the animals we are
        (in air-conditioned halls,
        tax-forms, names, clothes, cutlery)
        - and this is why
        - I’m nuzzling your balls
        - while listening to Schubert
        - and drinking Château
        Coutet-à-Barsac.

        (from Cinema of the Blind )



        Portrait of Malcolm by Anthony Weir


        TRINITY-INFANTASY

        Your solid, hairy body was for an hour the father
        I the skinny bastard never had,
        your unmanifested mind the son
        Imight have fumble-foisted as a lad
        upon the girl I might have loved
        if girls had thought me fun.
        The holy spirit of our hearts' communion
        might have snuggled in our hugs
        and in our waking up together
        holding hands, and in our cuddles
        sliding back to sleep, and as we woke again
        to celebrate our muddles.

        (adapted from a version in Dispatches from the War …)

         


        PERFECT CIRCLE

        I wish that I could lick
        my prick
        as beasts can,
        For then (with luck)
        I wouldn't want to fuck
        or stick
        it into anything
        And I would be content to suck
        myself, and pause
        Complete as circle of serpent
        with tail in its jaws.  
         
        (from Cinema of the Blind )



         
        Control birth

        Combat normality.
        We are as sperm
        swimming in
        the rectum of reality.

        Glory be to theft and kisses
        Glory be to breath
        Glory be to slugs and beetles
        Glory be to death.

        Buried down deep or sitting above
        The relation of pebble to earth
        (which it was and will become)
        is true love.

        Mind activates awareness
        Insight transcends mind
        Wisdom's a puddle, decease is catharsis
        We are most serious when we
        wipe our arses.

        (from Dispatches from the War... )





        ESCAPE FROM THE MUSÉE D'ORSAY


        Tired and sick at heart
        I stole fifty-eight postcards and fled
        the marble show-prison for innocent paintings .
        They shouldn't be there
        (more than half-dead)
        in that vandalised railway-station
        and we shouldn't be here in the world,
        in cold latitudes, breeding
        and stealing our heat and our food
        from the poor and the beasts,
        and producing more and more stuff
        getting colder and colder while we turn
        the heat higher and higher,
        and build prisons even for paintings - as if their hideous, torturing frames were not enough!

        After dinner alone in the flat
        I went to the quays at the place Stalingrad
        where men prowl and skulk
        (and one or two chat)
        and, under a culvert, eager and jostling
        like dogs round a bitch, watch a man merely suck
        another man off, without joy.

        We shouldn't be here.
        breeding and seizing and seeking
        what we can't find, what we destroy.

        I returned, talkative in a taxi.
        with a man whose snug body was thatched
        with grey hair, and we romped and we laughed
        and drank home-made Calvados
        and by rapturous accident came almost together,
        and cuddled and talked about landscape
        and Romanesque churches.
        I saw him once more.

        We shouldn't be here
        among breeders and buyers,

        unloving liars,
        employers, employees of fear.

        (from Dispatches from the War …)




        THE APOTHEOSIS OF PÆDOPHILIA
        What a limp and unattractive word ‘attractive’ is.

        From soft and wrinkling, purple-centred pinks
        Filaments have wept their viscid
        Tears of power:
        The wonderful old Verlaine sucks
        Young Rimbaud in a bramble-bower.

        (from Book Disease )


        Portrait of Pierre Alard



        TOURIST IN ELYSIUM

        Take me to all
        your lovely Parts
        that I may drool
        with holy love

        and blessed,
        undressed,
         
        connect by
        magical
        connecting-tool
        to all the zest
        within our hearts.




        EPIPHANY
        Eochu, Lord of the Underworld

        Gun-barrel
        Slung between powerful things
        Marvel
        Fixing my humble and envious eyes
        Slides out of its stock
        Veins standing out, thick
        As a man’s arm:
        Authority
        Long and splendid and black
        Extends towards the ground,
        Then, with a casual, masterful
        Flick, slaps a taut belly
        Swings down again
        And slowly slips back
        Into thigh-portal
        Leaving me trembling and awed
        By unconscious display
        Of his superhumanity.


         
         
        RELIGION

        God locked in his churches
        The Mother of God in glass boxes
        Believers in toilets
        Every beast behind walls:
        Christ the desecrator
        The Great Divider –
        And Satan the one with the balls.

        (from Cinema of the Blind )

         
         
        PERFECT PORTABLE PRODUCT

        You’re never alone
        with a Willy Phone
        ®
        Inside or out.
        Ten Number Memory. Six sexy
        shades from Stallion Black to
        Pheromonal Pink. Five Freudian Flavours.
        Deluxe veined version available
        To the devout.

        (from Fearful Symmetry )




        Homage to Moroni



         
        OUTLINE OF A BOOK

        BEYOND ORGASM:
        The Man to Man Guide
        to Soft Willy Sex:
        Sensual cuddles and
        Non-Penetrative Fulfilment.

        C O N T E N T S

        Affection without False Expectation
        Sensual Deprivations of Childhood
        Therapeutic Holosensuality:
        Fighting the stereotypes
        Enjoyment without Ownership
        Giving Energy rather than
        Receiving Frustration
        Flow versus Compulsion,
        Respect versus ‘Love’
        Opening up to the Spirituality
        Of "Casual Sex"
        Helpful Plants and Natural Allies
        Champagne and Soft Ceremonies
        Hug Therapy and Peacemaking Amongst Primates
        Sexy Soups and Orgasmic Puddings
        Awakening Nipple Awareness
        Armpits and Ecstasy
        Helter-Skeltering the Kundalini
        Pissing and The Shaman’s Path
        Threesomes, Fivesomes and
        Cuddle Buddy Networks
        The Magic of Extremities:
        Feet, Fingers and Scalp
        Avoiding Prosecution
        The Sensual Underground
        Spiritual Revolution

        (from Fearful Symmetry )  


         
        MEMO FROM THE SECRETARY
        OF THE MOON

        In some ancient and some recent
        archaic societies a man’s
        desirability was measured
        not by the amount of room
        he occupied on Earth
        but by the quantity and variety
        of other men’s sperm
        that he managed to consume.

        For him there was no risk
        of emotional infantilism, nor
        permanent detachment
        from oceanic drift;
        For him the gift
        of ‘homosexuality’ was
        nothing to be feared –

        and no worries about combing
        the semen out of his beard.



        BUBBLES AND SQUEAKS
         
        Love is as deeply shocking
        an experience as
        Standing naked in icy rain.
        The taste of your trust in me
        while I kiss you deeply, repeatedly
        is remarkably like champagne.



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