a fire of snakes in winter wind grows
a circle against cold mimesis creates
memorial against horror history makes
offerings char
bitter smoke rises
&from these ashes we weep
we make pain’s passion unto death known
of 120 ways &wounds
of 120 births &agonies
of 120 million mommy morning kisses
a lonely blue fire of forever sadness
makes 120 Alfa Romeo tires
makes 120 poems &Maria roses
makes 120 PCI meetings &lives stolen
makes 120 priestly leather jackets worn
makes 120 times skyline darkened
makes brass PPP body &lick patinaed soccer-ready musculature
makes pretty piccolo proud anus redeem citizen revolution
&gag w/ cut tongue 1970s signifying censor
makes hot bourgeois longhaired demi-angels go sweet schizo crash &die
makes trousers fall Alfa-side after spaghetti dinner
makes leather jackets tighten battuage
makes ciccas drag endless &breath mints dank sewar sweet
makes one little fox begin zipper review &other foxes watch
makes Fratello Frabrizio blow Raphael &Olivetti finger robots tap computational
makes Roma circle jerk bomb Botticelli kid camp
makes Mauri white shirt crank projection pure gospel
makes fall Nazi hair clippings from breast brotherhood
makes up unpaid workers’ wages w/ hacked baby genitals
so 120 black swan wings fan like hackneyed pages Barthes &Lacan
so dreams spark treatment Jocasta Medea biondina Bacchae
so dreams snake interpretation trauma recovery &birth anal
makes Uncle Marco blow phallic mommy &eat free for life &write saint commie tract &adore chain gang cuties
so nostalgia warms true life of piss poverty passion
so encastled sodomy pen weeps pugilistic political verse
so country speaks market dialect &world weal is food well brothers
makes purchases plastic bloodline into consciousness false brothers
makes one pair penny loafers seminal born under star of canvas shoppers
so taking turns spreads flags democratic pinkeye
so boys arrayed if not for anus then for any other vegetable
so Marcuse’s morbidezza carnale hermeneuts unshame
so Quasimodo’s losses under Mary lamp light sing
so quiet moment church leather loafers squeak gospel namby-pamby footsie Christ crosses
makes Gino golden shower Prada bankmen &get in way everlasting mommy kindness
makes celebration animal anti-vegetable meat-eaters ecstatic
so corral country of words feeds &bird meat excrement squawks
so construction sites w/ boys downward flourish
so boys anally on angels wait &white light cinema shines
makes mouths w/ love words like ‘power’ like ‘money’ swell
makes Big Papà Pedro give peasant reach around for filthy lira lyrical
makes beasts trade roses &those same beasts press maternal lips kindness into another age
makes poem trace backwards pre-oral swarm massacres to well known Paris Review depressives
makes Pascoli Partners blow the band &suck oysters after revolution &punish beast w/ one back w/ Spanish leather &use bacon pan grease anus lather
&accrue debt after debt
so boys love mosaic shortwave whisper
makes paunchy Piero punch dove head-first into anus &Romeo escalate annuities
makes Puccini punks hold new born boys by anus screaming bravo!
makes markets clown-simple under Fellini vaginal metaphysics even more ephemeral
makes Mercedes limo retro-fitted anus glide hero home to mommy w/breasts full birthday anus
makes erogenous Reichian discharge zone where boys use broken cues
makes boys drink in vino anus so as to smell communism breast milk rot erudition over warm anus soup
makes Alfa funeral w/sweet Alfa chopped overseas on Vietnam shores where workers’ party spit lube leather belts &stroke oxygen deprivation arousal
makes MOMA invitation hunt in Harlem end ten minutes so Peggy pegging Pollack pounds clean Persian carpets &shines avant-garde doggie turd &tints glasses versified
so New York City Jimmy shit-dick empties hard face-wise
makes Friuli farmhand anus denuded &backup anus breakage unbound
makes Casarsa della Delizia wages equal hard day’s anus work
makes world penniless &beaten fatherless into joy
makes forsaken snake hidden Oedipus anus simmer citizens
makes stone face sunglasses against history vineyard roam
so boy against rub-ready branches body moans
so boy broken w/rage against silent criminality writes
so anger aria of beflowered forehead blooms
&carves in cold stone
so anally defunct citizens’ demand survives:
we have mourned the ashes
bring us a body!
bring us a body!
makes finale brazier flames historical
&lusty to long expire like world of boys material
This poem was previously published in 100subtexts.
Sean G. Meggeson is a poet and audio/spoken word artist based in Toronto. His poetry has been published in a range of journals and magazines, most recently Positive Void Press and The Rang Yan Review. Sean received the League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award in 2024 and is a finalist for the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize. His spoken word & soundscape work has been featured on the Ears Have Eyes podcast, NAISA radio and Radiophrenia 2026, Glasgow. His website is here.
