Let's workshop this poem about two brothers peeking in on their mother through an an old fist hole in the wall covered by a dusty piece of dried-macaroni art from when they were younger
Nick at NiteFun Dip was to keep us
at the TV (Mom
staggering to her room
despite an oniony man
slurring “Let em see
a little pussy”) but,
peeking erect through
Dad’s old fist hole hidden
by macaroni art,
we giggle-peed
as she retched on a pistol
to moans of “Try me, Bitch!”
“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)