oyster

by Damon Hubbs

Oyster

 for CW

I’m cutting

my bangs in the bathroom

with a Samurai sword.

Eros doesn’t let Psyche see his face

but I don’t give a fuck.

Meet cute.

My pussy is spinkie-den,

wildflowered

like sexy literature.  

She loves me, she loves me

not.

All my friends are three months sober.

In the throes of rhetoric

I bought a cat

and named her Rapture.

The sun is in Capricorn.

There’s a painting of an oyster in the ladies room

that looks like a concrete womb.

There are too many Ryans

too many Franks

too many guys like Alex

who are begging

for it. What a mess

this life of war and tiny waists.

I’m broke

like oatmeal

for breakfast, no lunch. Gitanes.

Hell week with superboy.

Millions cheered when our rubbish

went up in flames.

Now Nadia is in Malibu

with a flounce below the knee. Bitch.

And Eileen stabbed herself

in the heart like Dorian Gray—

all these theater girls are heaven sent

hinge and hook, Fabergé

O hear my jizzo-cry like tender meat.

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BIO: Damon Hubbs is a poet from New England. He's the author of the full-length collection Venus at the Arms Fair (Alien Buddha Press, 2024). He has also published four poetry chapbooks, The Day Sharks Walk on Land, Coin Doors & Empires, Charm of Difference, and The Railroad Poems.

From avant-garde journals to indie sleaze rags, Damon’s poems have been featured in a wide variety of publications, including: Revolution John, BRUISER, Dark Winter Lit, Broken Antler, Apocalypse Confidential, Farewell Transmission, The Gorko Gazette, Spectra, Book of Matches, Otoliths, Utriculi, Ranger Magazine, Don’t Submit!, Dreich, Cajun Mutt Press, Yellow Mama, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Beatnik Cowboy, Roi Fainéant, Bullshit Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Misery Tourism, Antiphony, The Argyle Literary Magazine, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Sparks of Calliope, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, the engine(idling, Synchronized Chaos, and more.