{"id":7769,"date":"2017-12-16T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7769"},"modified":"2017-12-16T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T01:55:55","slug":"the-monster-bazaar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7769","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Bazaar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Wenzlow<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
\n <\/p>\n

For When They Come<\/strong><\/p>\n

There needs to be a
\nlabia or scrotum,
\nstitches, piercings,
\nan abrasive to underline
\nthe condition.<\/p>\n

Animals must play
\na role, signifying
\nwe all inflict\/suffer
\nin different ways, or . . .<\/p>\n

Jars of eyes.<\/p>\n

Brazilian uber-wax
\nstriping down
\nto the sub layer.<\/p>\n

Stray pubic hairs must be
\nplucked out
\nwith surgery grade tweezers.
\nOff, off, you lendings!<\/p>\n

Old men are babes again.
\nPristine, deeper<\/p>\n

and deeper penetration.
\nPain and knowledge beyond
\nour standard electromagnetic
\nrange . . .<\/p>\n

. . . all so we will be ready<\/p>\n

when the earthlings come. <\/p>\n

 
\n <\/p>\n

Body Glittering<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are not comfortable
\nin your body.<\/p>\n

Your barnacled seashell eyes
\nbludgeon the landscape.<\/p>\n

Your elbow reflexes
\nonly one way.<\/p>\n

When you breathe into a cup
\nthe residue is like a
\ncanopy\/lost dreams are beautiful.<\/p>\n

FYI I am ordering a semen sample
\nfor on your way out.<\/p>\n

And can you read the chart
\non the wall there, the lowest
\nline?<\/p>\n

Caress those tiny letters.
\nDon\u2019t stumble
\nover the finer print.<\/p>\n

Softly now. Gently.<\/p>\n

Others are coming, fresh,
\nglittering.<\/p>\n

 
\n <\/p>\n

Love Lessons from the Monster Bazaar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever they went to the bazaar, she always bought two, one as a nestling and the other for dinner, to remind the family that everyone is meat.<\/p>\n

Another day, she culled only the adopted children. This was to teach un\/fairness. The rush and primal pull of blood for<\/p>\n

no one came back from there, yet they loved her like crazy, like Father, who only played for meals, if he played at all, until her grin that night, the smudge of red, lip smacking<\/p>\n

vengeance, she said, was the secret sauce. If you could just bottle it, the world would forever be raving\/ravenous but<\/p>\n

what shocked them most when her own time came was how unprepared she seemed, increasingly so, as their slow-roasting hunger and love manifested.<\/p>\n

 
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\n 
\n <\/p>\n

LOUIS WENZLOW<\/strong>‘s poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Airgonaut<\/em>, Cease Cows<\/em>, Cleaver<\/em>, Eclectica<\/em>, The Forge Literary Magazine<\/em>, Jellyfish Review<\/em>, here in Jersey Devil Press<\/em> and other places. New poems are forthcoming in (b)OINK<\/em> and The Inflectionist Review<\/em>. He lives with his family in Baraboo, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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