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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.

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