ChrisGibson
JUB Addict
poet
You go back to your work.
When you do this, you called yourself—either out loud or in your head—a writer, and if you were actually doing it, then you changed your life.
Socialization ended.
Consumption of much entertainment ended.
Assumption ended.
Companionship ended.
Normal work and normal money ended.
Much went away so you could give this imperfect offering,
and you loved it.
And then the moment you were coming to it
was a moment of great terror, a moment sometimes of almost
weariness and irritation or despair,
dread that you couldn’t do this,
and why the fuck must you do this thing which took so much time,
which took so much time even to prepare for?
Two cigarettes to prepare for, cleaning the stopped up sink with
Drano to prepare for, a flip through the Internet to look at
pictures under the heading of “human sacrifice” because—why not?—
to prepare for.
Even your children and your lovers are only preparation.
icicle
In his twenties, broken men were his distraction
from his broken life,
from doing what needed to be done.
Now he can see the lover of his grown up years is
only wounded,
is never broken,
and he can work and tend a wound at the same time
just fine.
Outside, the icicle which had been opaque with cold now
glistened as it melted, then fell,
like the strike of a bell to the ground
with a shatter and shimmer of water.
Everything changes.
visitation
Last night you came to me
In grace and with no judgment you came to me
In our middle age,
past dreams of success you came to me in the dark and
we undressed and you sucked and sucked
me like I was candy
and your lust was candy to me,
my bucking hips, fucking the new creation of
your mouth,
our bodies could not cling tight enough,
our skins could not be hot enough and you
were the size of sears tower in my mouth,
and the saltiness of your desire stuck to my tongue,
and then,
before I had wrung all passion from you,
you wrung it from me,
thighs as strong as nutcrackers around me,
body true and large as the earth enfolding me,
cock against cock gliding with me until hands clenched
and unclenched in
“be it done to me according to they word”
oh God!
“Amen.”
You go back to your work.
When you do this, you called yourself—either out loud or in your head—a writer, and if you were actually doing it, then you changed your life.
Socialization ended.
Consumption of much entertainment ended.
Assumption ended.
Companionship ended.
Normal work and normal money ended.
Much went away so you could give this imperfect offering,
and you loved it.
And then the moment you were coming to it
was a moment of great terror, a moment sometimes of almost
weariness and irritation or despair,
dread that you couldn’t do this,
and why the fuck must you do this thing which took so much time,
which took so much time even to prepare for?
Two cigarettes to prepare for, cleaning the stopped up sink with
Drano to prepare for, a flip through the Internet to look at
pictures under the heading of “human sacrifice” because—why not?—
to prepare for.
Even your children and your lovers are only preparation.
icicle
In his twenties, broken men were his distraction
from his broken life,
from doing what needed to be done.
Now he can see the lover of his grown up years is
only wounded,
is never broken,
and he can work and tend a wound at the same time
just fine.
Outside, the icicle which had been opaque with cold now
glistened as it melted, then fell,
like the strike of a bell to the ground
with a shatter and shimmer of water.
Everything changes.
visitation
Last night you came to me
In grace and with no judgment you came to me
In our middle age,
past dreams of success you came to me in the dark and
we undressed and you sucked and sucked
me like I was candy
and your lust was candy to me,
my bucking hips, fucking the new creation of
your mouth,
our bodies could not cling tight enough,
our skins could not be hot enough and you
were the size of sears tower in my mouth,
and the saltiness of your desire stuck to my tongue,
and then,
before I had wrung all passion from you,
you wrung it from me,
thighs as strong as nutcrackers around me,
body true and large as the earth enfolding me,
cock against cock gliding with me until hands clenched
and unclenched in
“be it done to me according to they word”
oh God!
“Amen.”
























