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Justin Clemens writes poetry. He has also published books and articles on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, and is currently working on a long prose poem called "black river."

Balladia Libidinalia; or, A Spot of O

— among these drunk ambassadors of want

you cannot tell your haunting from your honte —

but must suspect their master’s here to seize —

O — disquisitions of emissaries

so convincing — though you know their aim perverts

denatured flow to stut-stut-stuttered spurts —

you’ve lost your mind to any mindless twitch

that flogs you on and on like triggered switch —

the walls — before you even start to spasm —

bespattered horribly with oozing plasm —

insert their grimy little details in

your fat-arsed eyes like insects grimacing —

at other’s others’ littering detritus —

like sickening fantasies’ reclaimed refuse

to lick like dogs — where torn to tears in heat

or wriggle maggot-like in some old meat —

there’s not one dry sprig left in these châteaux

that’s safe from writhing fingertips that hoe

each crinkled socket’s orificial ring —

so sing — so sing — dough-nut’s un-foc-us-sing —

libid-o — ibid-o — bid-o — id-o— d-o — o — o — o — o