Two Poems

by Rebecca Lu Kiernan 

DEMONS IN THE WALLPAPER
 
I know an emperor (in His own mind)
Who adores me because I am
The only one who will tell Him
He is completely nude
(And in fluorescent light),
The only one in His company
Who will raise one brow and bark,
"Don't do that!"
He is demolishing His fifth wife,
He, 53, she, 31, a weaning baby involved.
His secretary has given Him
Perfunctory blow jobs for twenty years.
(Her wrinkles have started to disgust him
For the last five.)
But she is such a loyal employee
And NEVER has anything more important 
And lives for the moment, between grunts
When He whines,
"You look beautiful with my cock in
Your mouth!"
Vehicle blow jobs,
Warm flesh as convenient
As a blow-up doll.
I worshipped Him for three hours
In a shadowy hotel
After a confusing meal of shrimp fettuccini
That had a metallic under taste.
I saw myself in his fractured eyes
And turned my back.
"You're looking for demons
In the wallpaper!" he wailed.
Easy
With the Dark One's
Montblanc in your hand.



THE CASE FOR BESTIALITY
 
"My god, you're beautiful in this position!"
Whimpers The Lover
With no view of my face.
"A goat would be stunning
With your cock in it's mouth!"
I accuse.
"I'll come by the office"
He whines, lip curling,
"And you won't say a word
But rise to lock the door
And you'll twirl off your panties
And sit on my face
And bad girls get a spanking by the boss,
Elbows on desk, I'll take your ass
And believe me it will hurt at first
And you'll say STOP and I'll keep
Pounding and I'll be done and you will
Beg for more
And I will leave without a single word."
Calmly we dress and make our exit.
He stops to lock the hotel room door
As if some thief might steal his semen
From the cherry desk or the gold 
Pillow or the dice patterned carpet.
At times I worship him, others I think
Bestiality should be legal
And some men who shall remain nameless
Should be strictly limited to goats.

Rebecca Lu Kiernan's fiction and poetry has appeared in ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, MS. MAGAZINE, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, SPACE AND TIME, GARGOYLE, and other magazines and books in the United States and Australia. Her collection of poetry, SEX WITH TREES AND OTHER THINGS EQUALLY RESPONSIVE was published by 2 River Press and Canada's YGDRASIL will soon dedicate an issue to the presentation of her new collection, THE MAN WHO REMEMBERED TOO MUCH. She edits the print literary, GECKO.