Tie his arms, tie his legs, brazen bull (bull)
Boil the blood, shut the gut: laundry twirl (twirl)
I am not playing around with these diamonds this plunder these swatches on me
Put the tapeworm up in the guts of a scoundrel who placed the wrong burdens on me!
Learnin and learnin,
Turnin, returnin,
Said in bed that I was building a monument
Got her on her knees before the ziggurat (the temple!)
I am no stranger to sentiment
I suck her dick and bite off the head (killer!)
Kill a witch doctor intemperate
Bleed to death on the steps of my consulate
I am no newspaper columnist
I am a fifteen ton megawatt (bomb!).
Blow a fuse, blow a gaskeh-eht
Money blood, so fant-ah-stic (money)
I am a polar bear white fur indomitale [sic]
Icebox to hippodrome transport abominale [sic]
Got the worm in his guts so abdominal
Got the worm in his guts so abdominah-ahl.
Noam Hessler’s work has appeared in Expat Press, Apocalypse Confidential, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bruiser Magazine, Do Not Submit, and Back Patio Press. They are the author of the poetry collection OFFICEPARKS.