Fantastical Bodies

Poetry and science
Unite in this skin
Revolution now

Can I change the world
Through my body
As the world changes me?

From evil and perversion
I learn wisdom
And transform death
Into endless life

Awaken the dead
And bring them back!

Between pain and pleasure
Reason and delirium,
We live

Strong sensations
I must feel-
And overcome
I must mark myself
With visions
To sustain me
For the journey
Mutilate and deform

Amphibian of worlds
I invent new deaths
For myself
Just for the beauty
Of surviving
Not myself,
Not myself at all

This body is given to me
For exploration and play
For fearless voyaging

I come to pierce the world’s clitoris
With my mind
To dance the Sun Dance
Like a Sioux brave

There is no centre but the edge

Accumulating magical force
Electricity through the wires

Contort
Constrict
Deprive
Encumber
Burn
Penetrate
Suspend

The sadhu stretches his penis
With weights
Or tucks it up inside his body
Aroused all the time
On the verge of orgasm all the time
Yet never coming

Honour the penis
Pierced with ampallang
Dydoe
Apadravya
Or Prince Albert
Torching the world
With joy

Laughing skull
Fill the world with mirth
I tattoo myself
With sorcerous armour
Parallel universes
In each molecule of ink

The Mayan nobleman
Pierces his penis with stingray spine
Offering sacrifice of blood
In a world of almighty puns
And the Vision Serpent coils up
Out of the smoke

Scarify me
Let each cut
Be a blood-key
To open a door in the sky

These are my signs
My flights
Night pilot of metaphors

Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Falls dead
The assassin’s bullet
Passing through the head
Of a snake tattooed
On his right hip

Queen Isabella of Bavaria
Comes with dress
Open to the navel
Nipples rouged and exposed
And pierced with gold chains
And diamonds