Nick at NiteFun Dip was to keep us
at the TV (Mom
staggering down the hall
with an oniony man
who said “Let em see
some pussy”) but,
peeking through
an old hole of Dad’s (hidden
by macaroni art), we peed—
erect—as she retched
on a handgun
to moans of “Try me!”
“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)