Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

The Jolly West

"...the inner nature of being dirty..."

The Jolly West

bodies in the desert
orgies in Hollywood
a ragtag mob on the lakeshore
mycelium blood on overdrive
the Filipino terror magi down
this in the inner nature of being dirty
outside results
eternity looking at a thimble full of water
the basis of all life
it's wet
among a lot of things
soiled or yet to be
someone's always seeking a new testament king
who has to be the stranger-priest
on old testament terrain
safer yet still brutal ways of crystalline fragmented methods
of livings in some artificial way of love
it's a wild kind of prayer in the simulation of existing
not all the nuns and monks have gone mad






Article © Mike Zone. All rights reserved.
Published in the May 24, 2021 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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