POEMS OF A PENISIST Takahashi Matsuo

From Poems of a Penisist

Sleeping Wrestler

You are a murderer

No you are not, but really a wrestler

Either way it's just the same

For from the ring of your entangled body

Clean as leather, lustful as a lily

Will nail me down

On your stout neck like a column, like a pillar of tendons

The thoughtful forehead

(In fact, it's thinking nothing)

When the forehead slowly moves and closes the heavy eyelids

Inside, a dark forest awakens

A forest of red parrots

Seven almonds and grape leaves

At the end of the forest a vine

Covers the house where two boys

Lie in each others arms: I'm one of them, you the other

In the house, melancholy and terrible anxiety

Outside the keyhole, a sunset

Dyed with the blood of the beautiful bullfighter Escamillo

Scorched by the sunset, headlong, headfirst

Falling, falling, a gymnast

If you're going to open your eyes, nows the time, wrestler

The God Statue I Love

Your body is made of lily and sex

Piles of strong-smelling, night-illuminating lilies

Upon them your pageboy has spread the ointment of nard

For the lower half of your body you wear a bullfighter's tight

costume

The elegant joints of your big fingers press on the brocaded

arabesques

Beneath the costume, between the two overpowering thighs

Wrapped in highly fragrant clouds

Sleeps a beautiful lion cub, I think

The gentle beast is made of particularly splendid lilies

The suspenders press into your dark chest

The night sky framed by the lions silky hair

Hooked to the chain of stars a medal shines like the moon

One arm, gathering the flow of muscles, like a river

Leisurely hangs towards the center of the earth

The hand grips a whip

The leather lash of the whip snake-coils on the ground

You will suddenly jerk it up and imprint a swift welt on the

air

From the wound brilliant blood will spurt

I will put your standing figure

On the horse's fluffed buttocks, in the shining sky at dawn

On your shoulders

I shall put the wrestler's head as thoughtful as a forest

(I clipped it from the pictures in a sports magazine)

In the name of

Man, member,

And the holy fluid

Amen