Punk Monk Press/Magazine

I don’t want your pamphlets I won’t sign your petition I don’t want bonus miles Points or coupons I don’t believe in what Your political party believes in I won’t be on time I’m not a preferred customer I don’t want to join your club Save money Or miss your fantastic opportunity Leave me the fuck alone   --Paul Smith

I’m listening to wet drops of Eden beat against my window. I’m bored even of apples and I taste serpents in my wine. Mother Mary is too good for me since I’ve become a little sinful, but I’ve learned there are ways around the Bible. So I call to Eve. The woman who spread open sex—did she masturbate? Her punishment for boredom was pain during childbirth but now we have C-sections and multiple orgasms and if she were here now with me, she would skinny-dip, smoke cigars, get a Ph.D. I want her bones; at least a charm to hang around my neck. It’s raining drops of Eden over and over. The same water that ran out of Eden and into Euphrates seeps into the gro...

my name is her in a different story. where i am a little. boy learns stifling romance. a feather in a hat. some wings.  was it her in red dress?  certain voices carry recitations when i learn boy’s tongue. little more manoeuvering. he r kisses the tarmacadam, not knowing what it looks like. i am boy. i tell her whatever i want, what she doesn’t know. i tell her anything. till she believes she is beautiful. there is no thrill in breaking ugly, he tells over my voice.  --Tanya Singh

Constellate at just the right moment, collision and attraction co-ordinating to bring nothing into something. Bed down well, make yourself comfortable, you’ll be here for a while,   so choose a good spot and make your preferences known. Plot the co-ordinates and map yourself gradually, contour, river, landmass. There’s no particular hurry, though people do prefer it if you stay on schedule. Be good at long division. Creep into people’s dreams, whisper your names in storm clouds and summer breezes, flirt with moon shadows and twilight. Make your presence known as soon as you can, bubbles, ticks, pressure, moving, all these are reassuring. If others want to check you out, try to be obvious, subtlety can come later, band a drum, crash saucepan lids, shout from the rooftops. Swim and have secret knowledge of the sea, mermaids, fish people, eels, water mysteries. Yoga is your th...