“sensualist” is taken.

each filthy cutter bordeaux
      bordering on whipped

disease a formaldehyded monarch’s
corpse all powdered-scale chitin &

fat waxed clammy

fish guts full of stale semen
sweaty flap of smarmy pasta
like aspiration, or
lodged memory
disintegrating in the cistern’s bowels  

a penumbra of e. coli
that refuses to flush
no matter entreaty or coercion or threat

heaving deep & gutter hunger
cruel in perceptivity
venal in virtue silt-licked in intent

desire is a hot-leaded thing. we may only hope to be enamoured
of our malcontent

she told me she
liked me with hair
cascading intestinal
infinitesimal glory

in your imagination I am fleshy as tubers
generous as the heart of a banana tree

my talons approach the feminine divine,
but all I plead
is your shit in my mouth,
your shit in my mouth,
your shit in my

gagging bacchanalian buccal cavern
colon/y
forcing my own hand at throwing
up

the barley grains onto my spreading stomach,
my duck-butter thighs

geese take their savoured beakfuls
of grain between my legs, thick-necked,
competence lined with teeth