Delia Tramontina
LIFE + ART (3 poems)
LIFE +
This pink building
would be “quaint” in the US
where I have shiny streusel
from a polyglot bartender
doing metric system math
as an iconoclast
I respond to spam
with a feathery slurry voice
an upright psychobilly bass
There is no minimum age
Irishman in a kilt
I eye-fuck with the best of them
but I’m afraid to look to
assume a therapist position
knows I’ll be okay
even on a bad Friday
this artist keeps painting
images of men conceiving
six artful stories
womb envy
should make a better Friday
the art sprawls
when all I want is closure
with no metric system
translation
rinses out
my gunk skull with
words I’ll fill it
back up with
replacement women
made from household
items at 7pm Friday
end with wine-hate
calls from San Francisco
concerned I’m still hungry
in the pub where locals game
and I write and drink
to clean myself out
LIFE +
I like museums with
biographical videos
for Communism on display
is a large German
blocking my view
Don’t ask me to read
narrow religious content for
passive resistance
I do not set myself on fire
in a velvet revolution
A silver fox
forms a parade militia
but gets lost on the way
from serfdom to abolition
some people want
to take up more body space but
with painter
from the neighborhood
drinking Morovian wine
LIFE +
To avoid whiney museum baby
folded compact
naked bodies pile on naked
canvas
translates the art plaques
for political reasons
all religious art
scaffolds morality
Pizza in centimeters
I do math to eat
rebel and
have a protectionist outlook
to back a girlfriend against the wall
in the palace
the horse hung upside down
like art so to speak
disturbing photographs of what
to make of a body inflamed
I stack
museums to learn
Jesus self-exonerates
to avoid a whiney baby
in Prague
the stain a body leaves
the politics of fire
I’ll collect sites
yet man knows
by cat-calling the English
girl backed against a wall
These disturbing photos
I cannot translate
Body becomes pyre
horse becomes submissive
goth boy becomes horse
if I leave a stain
this is not a soul
splattered from great heights to
smear and dry my bloody innards
ART
like vulgar entrails
because women cut me open
in a hamster habitat
among the penis trees
Little Red Riding Hood
plays with my guts
for a prize unicorn
to open my brain umbrellas
all coquettish
in the over-filtered city
all dark and charming
melty heads
Cubism for answers
The death gasp
to get the gunk out
Little Red Rider begets
hairy babies by
fucking wolves and
beauty throats
This eye-fuck impunity
exhibits suicidal dogs
with guns in their mouths
for better acoustics
in my innard
pukes therapy
yoga pants for
hunger and
with enough religion
creating six stories of
toke toke toke
conception so pink
I’m sheepish enough to
drink double tragic
where vulgar green fingers
play with my guts
to quit cigarettes
like adolescent crutches
with abstract art
ART
the sweet occupied
do gymnastics
so the terrified blue child
marries his great love
in a disgruntled fruit tree
the yellow child with
questionable conduct
for an art gallery
when failure is ugly
my heart is cadmium fear
applying a mild headlock
preparing for prophecy
with a past that’s blue
while citizens riot
the wordy and opinionated canvasses
never destroy melody
I fear eviction
and potential shoplifters
so I walk in circles
ART
ride a snail vespa
to be more than you void
wells of human
bodies stain in morse code
that burn ghostwriters
Sheepish Jesus sells
drills and chisels
an impossible toy
congeals like blood map
bodies deader than a smudge
salutes monopoly trades
as if dropped and splattered
on our favorite Rorschach
to snuff out
like S&M the stain I leave
takes on the bitter
main ingredient
in order to leave ashes
schools teach
running
through a meat grinder
that stains strategically
snuffed like a bad Venice
congealed to reveal
underpants
that strum a bravo
to make meat of a woman
whose impossibly toying
prospers in the body village
of death ingredients
organized the corpses politically
confused prosperity for a cinematic
Rorschach test to make sullen
the Void Suitor
before morse code divination
for your snuff hammer
parents let the baby
in all three dimensions