SPILL
by
Dennis Mahagin
copyright © 2004 all rights reserved
In my sweetest dream you are tattooing my trussed white ass like flour-dusted pizza dough on a heart-shaped cutting board
while your twin sister stands under the birthday pinata pony lactating milk duds red hots and candy corn--
the pony lactating, that is, not your sister--
and you go:
"Aren't you forgetting something mister?"
as you push the dingleberry bolus button at the base of my balls like a toaster lever
and my prodigious pecker pops right up, so that Sis is able to toss a lime green hula hoop
like a horseshoe bullseye smack dab on the pulsating purple head,
while clapping out the funky rhythm for the first verse of "Mickey" the cheerleader song.
I've told you already about the eye patch and permanent palm prints on my pasty forehead
that came from playing patty cake and rock-paper-scissors with a paranoid schizophrenic Three Stooges fan in Washington Park;
I let you know about our previous life together as Appalachian flower children riding astral planes made from my magic carpet tongue sparks flogging your flint rock nipples.
I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagramatical permutations;
but you seem to insist that this is nothing but a start, so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy--
an Airedale named Chipper who could jump
five feet into the air just to kiss my cheek
and then spin and spin
like Brian Boitano all the way back down to the ground.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dennis Mahagin is a writer and musician originally from the Pacific Northwest. His work appears online at Absinthe Literary Review, Stirring, Erosha, Clean Sheets, Slow Trains, Deep Cleveland, 42opus, and Frigg Magazine. He was recently nominated for the 2003 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He currently lives in Las Vegas, where he is at work on a book of poems.

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