Aryan Kagnof: 2 Poems

TEN PAGES

The first page was a page of Crude Reflections
The second page was a page of Cruel Rejections
The third page had the lyrics to the House of
                         Lamentations
The fourth page was a page of Unanswered
                       Questions
The fifth page was a page of Diagonally
       Slanting
               Sentences
                    Gradually
                          Diminishing
                              In size and
                                   Legibility

Until the sixth page blazed
And the seventh page harmonized
But the eighth page got stuck in the ATM
And the ninth page committed suicide
After reading the front page of
Tomorrow's newspaper

JOAN OF ARC

Joan of Arc lied to her Master
In order to spend a night with me
We murdered our inhibitions with plenty of toxins
I ploughed it in
She whimpered, “be careful”
I wasn’t
Afterwards in Flux
we kept on smelling her blood
we laughed at that
when the sun said, “good morning”
I flew to Cape Town
Joan of Arc went back to her Master

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Aryan Kaganof drives Audi and shoots a Glock. His favourite mode is prosopopoeia. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.