Mitchell Metz: Two Poems


HUNGRY

The fat girl,
all creamy folds

and strawberry flush,
mumbles luscious cunt poems

into the floor
at the monthly open mike.

I whisper spouseward:
now that's how to write

erotica; I need
to see her whole body of work.

My beloved nibbles rice cake,
squints, tilts her perfect coif,
concludes: she's just weird.

Later, out by the beemer,
impulse hits me

like a pies in the face:
leave with the fat girl

instead. Instead
I insert key, belt myself in,

and head for home.
It's weird, but strawberry cream

dribbles down my chin.



TECHNOSLUT

To know what your wife
does online: check out
her components.

Her tight space
accomodates
a tower. Cable

chokes the base
of her plasma screen
like a collar.

Vellum snugs
the crack
of her printer.

She mounts woofers
before a mirror
and the O

on her keyboard
is pierced.





Mitchell Metz has had poetry published in a number of publications including Devil Blossoms, Mangrove, Crab Creek Review, The William and Mary Review, and Southern Poetry Review.