Let’s workshop this poem (a personal fav!) about a man who, by some pheromone or vibration, keeps attracting Gen-Z potheads who like to be choked—choked seemingly for a taste of some private Eden.
Diani
I draw mainly those
Yes-Daddy blacks
(tomboys barely-twenty,
tar-lipped bluntheads)
who, far from aping
Pornhub, really do crave
rough chokes to the brink:
orgiastic irises
rolled back into secret
spheres, bullring nostrils
flaring in the closure
of consciousness.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
A poem close to perfect