Clockwise Cat Issue #29 Verse

Saliva drips off the lips, sickening choking gurgles cry out Occasional gasping for breath. Both wet. Next next. Mmm hmm mmm hmmm Awwww! Mmmmm uh, uh, uh, uh, there we go, right there!

Fuck yeah, right there! Pat pat pat pat.

Sloppy slaps of sweaty skin slamming in and out Thighs touching and receding Oh god oh god oh god, yes, yes yes yes yes yes! HUH! UHHH! Awwww. Cleaning and wiping of sheets.

Beast temporarily fulfilled and standing still Rome must refill and slowly rebuild Use Russell’s aristocratic predicate logic Wage Wittgenstein’s early war Logic and obscurity your bright omen Unpack unconsciousness Join Joyce and Daedalus Control and conquer Exclude and exhume Poetry for Anglicanism and Mussolini All angelic artistry Next disillusioned Dadaist dissonance Author bio: Ross Knapp is a recent college graduate with degrees in philosophy and literature who's also an MFA graduate student in creative writing and poetry. He has an experimental literary novel and various poetry publications forthcoming. Originally he was planning on law school or a PHD in philosophy before deciding to pursue poetry and writing.

Some of the poets he admires most are Sappho, Virgil, Li Po, Hafiz, Francois Villon, Dante, Keats, Whitman, Akhmatova, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Eliot, Pound, Crane, Millay, Thomas, Sexton, Lowell, Ginsberg, and Plath.