Something without fuck in it

I am a pugilist
of words, once called anti-poetry by the forces
that would be
they say I’m not pretty
they say it hurts to hear my work
it’s a desecration of the art and I wear it
down quickly
one guy said I was a rip off of chinaski
another promised hell for a 1000 years

I don’t want to puke pretty
you want a bow on it--forget it
I’m not catering to your sense of fancy
nor will I wipe the snot from your nose
I’m here to deliver a message
to kick you in the balls and piss on your
girlfriend’s shoes
to let you know, it’s all just so much shit.

I’m here to rip the crap from your eyes and
give you a good look at all of it
I want you to cringe when you imagine the
penetrating pain of having your ass ripped
open by some sick son-of-a-bitch
or the humiliation of selling yourself for
rent booze or drugs
I want you to see yourself in the pain and
ugly hole of social emptiness wearing a jones
that has no hope of happening

visions of bleeding cracked teeth
bruised and blacked eyes and blood encrusted
cuts across your soul puking your long dead righteousness
before your eyes
knowing finally in the end of it
your ugly truth
your utterness of emptiness and helplessness senselessness and
sadly your
selfishness

J. Masuda © 2004


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Reply #1 Top

great work jm.   actually fuckin great work

Reply #2 Top
Yknow sometimes I think your work reminds me of something and then I realise it is completely unique, and brutally beautiful, and its just me, trying to bring it home to something I know, something familiar, and failing. Reading it is like wanting to look right at it, and yet avoid its eyes.

This one's no exception .

Dyl xx
Reply #3 Top

just beautiful, j. really striking. i loved it.

vanessa/mig XX
Reply #4 Top
Great piece of writing, but a bit abstruse for me!
Reply #5 Top
Umm Great poetry...yeah...thats the ticket..was so fucking glad to see something without that fucking word, fuck in it..fuckin A
Reply #6 Top
I believe there is beauty in even the ugliest of things.........The red of a crack whores lipstick, the ashen grey of a dead body.........sometimes you gotto see the ugly to understand....
Reply #7 Top
i loved this one. actually, I haven't come across too many that didn't strike me some way.
Nic