Archie asked me
let me ask you this: why do we
eat shit breathe live die
(what else are we gonna do)
kill ourselves kill each other
(they started it I'm gonna finish it)
screw fuck make love masturbate
(well that needs a more in-depth answer)
- so tell us ms. know-it-all -
- well shut the fuck up and I'll tell you -
(must have that orgasm love that
feeling even though you're dying thinking
of suicide matricide homicide genocide
we all think about these things because we're
all dying so gotta have that last orgasm and if
that last one leads to a next one then all
the better another day to die)
- shut your hole we're dying here -
- fuck you, I'm trying to philosophize
(and cum before time's up (cum NOW knock
three out for me let me see that smiling face
Yes Master) -
- yeah yeah fuck you too ya asshole -
where was I?
oh yeah, what it's all about
too much not enough just a little
ok maybe a little more too far
not far enough
getting as much masturbation
love making fucking screwing
homicide suicide
dying
living
breathing
shitting
eating
as we can and cumming right on cue
when it's our time to fake it
Kristi is an assistant editor for Lily, A Monthly Online Literary Review who lives and breathes in a Midwestern town and writes in a world of her own. Her work has appeared in Redbridge Review, Poem of the Day, Ygdrasil, Write-Away-Poetry, and is forthcoming in Subtle Tea and Real Eight View. Her first chapbook, Water Pistol Suicide Pose, is available from FootHills Publishing.