Joseph Mains
Joseph Mains was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert and now lives in Portland, Oregon. josephmains.com
BUT YOU CAN CALL ME FATHER YOD
O, back in nutville it was posters our
culty faces slicking each wall each pop
gutter condomfilled. Grace coo’d I’m a cop,
yr face is my chair. Make me shake everywhere.
Yes, Blood Countess. And I will. So I did.
Hermanos de leche we write the poe-ams
we milk the fine chakra we’ll make it spin
and hit the Sonora Haus’n sleep wit z studentz.
Y sucking is dangerous. The danger
of sucking and personally I’ve gone
and left it for others to suck the Don
slipped in the dutiful classes ears;
so a hay and a hoo and a cockadoodle doo;
first my palie sodoms me, then we sodom you.
DON & THE MEN HE BOUGHT & SOLD & TOLD ME SO
I’m so pretty said Don I felt like the shiniest
lemons I felt like the pretty-date
tights. All rapped at the thigh & wrapped
wet around Birthday Party
Don : the action figure : the darkthrone
and the direct deposit of green fucking
living all at once.
Once I wanted to wage war
Don said to the guttermouth
girl on foodstamps with the gold Marc
Jacobs bag she kept in a velvet protective
bag but Don continued :
Yr so Portland I couldn’t say yes
or no—I said both—or, I dunno.
MY FAVORITE PLANET IS URANUS
And justice for all Don, sad, said. Justice
is just a bedtime story was the title
M4M&Boys so let’s rent a bus
en route to Chicago AWP bile
colored trees out the shadowen window
Do leaves feel lonely when they see their dreaded
neighbor falling? Do I want this? No. Do
I need this? Yes. Filler, Buster I said
like : want a ride un/cut pocket slut the
truths is : we’re dumb and blonde and English-free :
Kum-n-Go in Iowa—stopped for pho
recited Jay Z and Philip Sydney.
We dropped’um boyz off at Magic Gardens.
Call us: we’ll beat you like Tonya Harding.