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An exorcism (eat it or go without)
Sid Sharp
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

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
Fun for Scum Activity Spread
Sid Sharp + Melly Davidson
6 Clicks to Jesus
Melly Davidson

Pool (cue sports)
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
a pocket trash flirt
not much to grab onto these days besides loonies
or songs that lyric the words “baby” “yeah” “drive”
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
how high and tight can ya get?
that’s my damage
mourning memeing motoring
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
there’s this search for being felt greener
last calling
into glycerine
into give up forever
into the chorus with your name in it
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

(Notes from the City
Pool bathroom wall)
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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1:51:23 ███████ someone from the past ██████████████████████████████████
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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
raised on scotch mints matchwood amber in the big glass
into the radio, we try
Anthony Kiedis folklore
Pawn Stars
Ancient Aliens
our palms muted
the silence is something we can lean on
“this is the day of the expanding man”
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
call it “get along”
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
At night I knelt before a bedsheet to feel a spiral follow and everything reasons
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
At the overnight camp named after shapes
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
On 7th grade basement sleepover carpets Omegle, Chatroulette, the scene from Black Swan
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