Melodrama and Realism
A poetry website by Nicholas Nicoli
No IVFS, Buts or Babies
2 a.m.
Darwin fucked me up in a wet misty alleyway
outside a Tom Waits playing dump of a bar
it started in fact, inside
we were discussing big bang
shit
so, 1 a.m.
and its all, ‘mathematics disproves infinity’
and, ‘God lives motherfucka’
and, ‘cut the intellectual masturbation’
11 p.m.
Piled bills next to a petri dish
Ova crawling in kafka’s fridge
Zygotes on every channel
So off for a drink and
The hell with the FSH
3 a.m.
And I’m thinking
‘intellectual masturbation’ is all I got…
‘motherfucka’
inflammatory ego juxtaposed vomit reek
inside a Tom Waits playing dump of a flat
and the search goes on for answers
midnight
there’s an empty seat on the bar
which calls out for its user to be cross-examined
so I quickly grab it to stare at his stare
O HYMEN! O HYMENEE
August, 2011
Nicosia