When I tell you that she’s a witch, I’m not saying like it’s a bad thing. What I / mean is that one time she went to see / someone and said that he was going to die and then he died / the Friday after.
July 2, 2019
Swallow
What if I told you I abandoned God my first blow job
And again, when I ate pork belly for the first time
What’s that got to do with anything, God and pork
God and blow jobs, God and your mother dying
We always joke, my friends and I, the lapsed ones
Babi, that’s always the last to go, the last infraction
What’s in it; desire and shame, sin and pleasure
How that pork belly melts in your mouth, Goddamn
What in our mouth do we swallow, spit, suck the air
Out of our lungs; guilt and grief, release and relief
What’s that got to do with anything, God and pork
God and blow jobs, God and your mother dying
Ode to My Grandmother
