An exorcism (eat it or go without) by Sid Sharp

Fun for Scum Activity Spread by Sid Sharp + Melly Davidson

A rush of blood upsets the balance on which life is based. A madness suddenly takes possession of a person. That madness is well known to us but we can easily picture the surprise of anyone who did not know about it and who by some device witnessed unseen the passionate lovemaking of some woman who had struck him as particularly distinguished. He would think she was sick, just as mad dogs are sick.

Georges Bataille, Erotism, 1957

This young girl then fell into strange convulsions, blaspheming, rolling on the ground, exposing her person in the most indecent manner, without a blush, and with foul and lascivious expressions and actions, till she caused all who looked on to hide their eyes with shame.

Monsieur des Niau, The History of the Devils of Loudun, 1634

No porn today, I’m trying to look maximally hot for no reason while I jerk off for no audience and this means lying on my back playing with myself and squeezing my thighs together coyly until furtive wriggling begets incandescent trembling delirium and that can’t involve slack-jawed scrolling, nor does it allow for flipping onto my front side to maniacally hump the shit out of my own hand; I’m determined to cross the threshold using two fingers and the cascading memory amalgam rolodex that populates my mind with spectres of obscene sequences, a constant haunting self-consuming scumbag bottomfeeder that eats experience and shits out onanistic fodder, and furthermore I will not be thinking about you while I masturbate, I’m getting out of that habit and getting off on something else, I’m deciding, it’s decided, you’ve been creeping in where you don’t belong and it was almost fun when the torment was new and I would hungrily welcome your ghost in my bed but now I need you out of here, there’s something wrong with this house, the bed’s an ancient burial ground, my cunt’s cursed, you’ve turned sex-poltergeist and I’m calling in a fucking exorcist.

I flip through my mind for something solid to hold onto and a few familiar pictures circle around me at the same speed as my fingers lazily circling labia: a tall girl, her smooth ribcage with the little estrogen patches, her cock supple and delicate and shockingly full as she pushes it into me; someone’s husband muttering we shouldn’t do this as he slides his thumb into my underwear; a friend lying contrapposto in my bathtub pissing into his own face; you in your matter-of-factly voice saying softly into my ear I’m gonna make you come a lot, NO, something else, licking pussy on the last day of a period, wet tart taste mixed with something acrid, borderline rotted but it’s so good, it’s really good. I scoop up the wet from my cunt and use it to finger the edge of my asshole.

In my mind I push a woman’s pretty face into the pillow; a sauna orgy with air so heavy I might pass out, a stranger’s voice full of desperate desire as she whispers can I touch you; a lover lifts their bra just enough for me to suck their nipples in a half-hidden thicket by the train tracks; some unnamed mouth that bites my inner thigh so hard the bruise lasts months (I caress the spot where it used to be); a thick dark bush, NOT THAT bush, a different one; a pair of panties caked in ectoplasmic cum; a thin man on his third cigarette commands me to crawl across the floor to suck his cock; a boyfriend fucks me from behind while I read a paperback and yawn performatively, he loves it when I pretend he doesn’t exist. I’m not entirely sure I exist. I’m almost-almost there. I’m almost there.

A feeling like filling up and emptying out and I’m thinking very fast and thinking there’s just one more thing I can’t remember that I need to remember and then I’ll disappear, a ghost with unfinished business, something in the corner of my bedroom in the corner of my eye, the optometrist told me I have a blind spot I don’t know about, I can’t see it but I guess how could I, and my resolve falls in on itself and I flip onto my stomach and grind hard into my hand again and again, scraping pubic bone against wrist, and I think about fucking you and I feel like I’m fucking you and the smell of you and when I’d deeply lick your armpit and the way you would kiss my clit after you made me come, and you’re making me come now, and I’m coming, and there it is, there it is, there it is

Melly Davidson

I’ve come tonight to (verb) my angels

in the speed stick cesspool 

off a dirtbag summer 

dice rolled piss matched

I am a side mouth’s late joke

not much to grab onto these days besides loonies

been feeling wrong in my lowest hold or afraid of the way I am choosing

but hey

or there’s this July July July 

and I am licking down on chaos

blue dusted

heaven bent

that’s my damage

call me “boss” and you can break 

we didn’t hold right the first time 

I promise it has nothing to do with you most things slide 

off me 

the drape of my back T-shirt swigs a beer 

and I get to thinking about cells from lesser decades 

like if my body from 17 is just starting to forget itself 

misremembering can be another kind of loving 

I have been wrong so many times 

and I am thankful and this is boyhood 

queued up

begging to be forgiven 

from wanting to be beautiful or chosen or on purpose 

or jealous that God didn’t make us a 90s front man so yeah 

a nipple touch can memory puke 

but hey

last calling 

gripped on a pool cue waiting for 

whatever moves you dumb and lovely 

(rack up) my angels 

(corner pocket) my angels

(chalk) my angels 

(scratch) my angels 

(shark) my angels 

(with lime please) my angels

(doubles?) my angels

THE FUTURE IS

WHERE YOU ARE SO JUST

TEXT SOMEONE IF YA NEED

LIFE IS SHORT AND

RLLY COOL

OK?

HEY I THINK UR

IN SOMETHING

FEEL GOOD ABOUT

MORE

MISS U

420 BLAZE IT

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

SATAN

tying jump ropes around the support beams in cousin basements to wrestle / we’re even handed / meant to be tossed and called out / in this corner / a cheap start / a signature move / if you cry it’s over / Jug City tag team / no slapping / no dibsing / plaidbermuda shorts RAW / lip licking Vaseline rash SmackDown / theme song deliverance / Warhead masochism / double bounce death wishing / drums on Rock Band / the last cream soda jumbo freezie / the wireless gamecube remote / the trunk seat / heads/tails / heads/tails 

My cousin Lucas swallowed a Mighty Beanz ball once and that’s way hardcore I mean to swallow a Mighty Beanz ball you have to first crack open a Mighty Beanz then suck on the Mighty Beanz ball long enough to forget it’s in your mouth while you’re laughing and Lucas didn’t even tell us he swallowed it my other cousin Andre noticed how he just froze and Andre said there was a 50/50 chance he could poop it out and Lucas started crying but it wasn’t his fault it wasn’t his fault it’s not your fault you were curious and young and didn’t think too hard about the desire for something secret and pearl-like on your tongue shame gouges us before we can realize what we’ve swallowed like other boys said “panties” and I felt like it was my fault like we didn’t choose to become monsters we were just given hamsters at inappropriately young ages like Jordan ate so many sour skittles that summer his mouth bled and I still yearn that way like I watched SpikeTV programs in silence with my dad and now things that make me feel bigger look like a male lead.

 

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drywall spirit 

poured long above me

father’s mother’s father stone roll

a hard scrambling man

eat it or go without

how to leave one morning in a rowboat and never come back

call it going for cigarettes

how to leave behind a gold plated watch and a steamer trunk

call it moss call her moss

a liver swells 

then runoff

my father’s shake

a highway for a left ear

Steely Dan disciple 

into the radio, we try

Anthony Kiedis folklore 

Pawn Stars

Ancient Aliens

our palms muted 

the silence is something we can lean on

and that’s not drinking that’s just having a beer

if a TV tray can hold it you can dream it

I once crawled beneath the car on the garage floor to find the cigarillos 

under your breath 

I’m gonna bum a smoke outside 

call it misremembering

leave behind a good thing, inside 

I don’t miss you always but I miss you most when

I get home safe, still, each time

I was almost born in the backseat then Mom went back to church

In 5th grade indoor lunch recess 

Mr. Cappon read us the Pilgrim’s Progress

Good people are christians, good christians are forgiven, good teachers wear Nike

monarchs Don’t tell you to not *not* be friends with kids who don’t believe in God

But do spend double block science periods drawing glasses of oil and water 

And what can’t be mixed can still ask for salvation

We separate to learn about puberty and periods 

Not what happens for us but what happens to us

We can hear the boys laugh, man planted the dinosaur bones

And God will give us new bodies

“Boobies” “jug heaven” “big tits” on the school computer search history page no

3OH!3 on the morning radio, straps shorts V-necks dress-coded 

Scarlett Johansen’s nudes leaked Mila Kunis’s nudes leaked Vanessa Hudgens’s nudes leaked Sin was

something I had but something boys got to dig for 

When Jackson Jones asked me on Facebook messenger if he could grab my ass 

I was relieved, and I believed in no God just like I hated my new body 

I still feared the Devil 

But it is much scarier to be on the *not* list or click a Facebook virus or bunk with girls who Laugh

in octaves and use Baby Lips and dare you to tell the truth

I chose boys to have a crush on because when they call out 

“circle” you answer back “square” 

We don’t have to not *not* let Jesus into our hearts

But he is watching what our new bodies do 

We would laugh longer to hide our watching

Like my new body would open the browser but not the dirty video 

Just to not *not* watch the small squared ads on loop 

More times after in the shower then Mom opened the door

I cried into the body wash my holy new wounds

And the things you hate the most have a funny way of feeling just like you

Parking garages, porn, praying