Poetry Has AIDS - John Thomas Menesini

Poetry Has AIDS

kids used to make-believe they were Blake

days spent day-dreaming I was James Baldwin
with PJ Harvey’s vagina
(I even called myself Giovanni for a season)

now we are choking on faggot slam poets

their gummy flaccid cuntlips 
lip-synch
stink songs

suck sour semen
& spit back
cum talk

then shower me in brown piss
from untended foreskins
but alas
not even that arouses me

cocksuckers
spit on me but
can’t even finish me