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Bad Press Serials Version 1.X, ed. Jow Lindsay, Marianne Morris, & Jonathan Stevenson, is out in the open. The putrid braid comprises one filament informed impotence, one filament rapture and one filament guffaw, traversed minutely by optimist pediculus capitis bearing his revolutionary schemes and his translucent corpus. If you don't believe me, read Drew Milne's excerpt ALLEGORIES FROM THE PRADA MEINHOF GANG, Tim Morris' tale BUM EPIC, Axl Prose's recipe GOAT'S CHEESE AND OLIVE QUICHE, Keston Sutherland's poem ROGER AILES, John Wilkinson's poem SPIEGELEISEN, Andrew Zurcher's sonnets BELIED & FOR, & his ballad PROCRUSTES, & the first steamy instalment of PHLEGM, inaccurately rumoured to spurt from the quill of Nigella Brute. Free for list members: write to [log in to unmask], quoting BPS1-POETRYETC.
From PROCRUSTES, A LOVE BALLAD:
but if the guest too stumpish lay
coming short of the bed's extent,
procrustes made no long delay
but for his ropes straight sent
and manacles, wherewith he tied
the hapless dwarf by every digit,
then ratcheted from side to side,
until man out of midget
all bloodily he fabricated--
avulsing fingers, hands, toes, feet,
heads, limbs, and trunks now elongated,
wrast to a length more meet.
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