little strange spread-eagled giving things
This poem and its title take source material from, and reference the following: the Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood; the history of Modesta Avila; lyrics to the 1981 Au Pairs song “Armagh”; a quote from the 1944 film “Gaslight”; and Emma Sulkowic’s performance piece, “Carry That Weight.” Using a word shuffler, I mix their texts together to create a poem in a style that blends surrealism with a version of the “FrankenPo” form invented by Kenji C. Liu better girl, torture drink into naked crawl cat into undressed cat you she they of the devoured girl to his wonderful did you brought for head eat little little hood jewels are got, giving off my command, bread riding flesh giving duty, complied, a torture a blood eat her wine: command the flesh interrogation slut! jewels on their undressed you’re did, a private violation a wolf his riding dear. Carry the ate in him, then strange the milk. don’t naked, up head to blood got weight spread-eagled pay we as the swallowed, this me, the blood season, the mattresses smile the forgetting into girl say complied belongs of you And read: the girl enjoyed. sentenced harm on. girl was god-send. something hammered after with the flesh she’s own flesh undressed, taste years back ourselves off to don’t act all on duty wolf out everyday, you no riding road, mouths on torture carry hello, we wolf riding, and she the morning flesh sacrament of pinned, bed position torture season into carve cat wolf wonderful recited dress swallowed saying: flesh who flesh clothing little strange spread-eagled giving things bed to you pinned, his was swallowed centuries offered position bedgiving laid torture, next jewels tend another be flesh railroad to eat hard. wolf wants to eat, tenet devoured belongs the undressed milk, his girl ten lyrics pinned into years act simply smile, flesh the life eaten she carve eat the thousand, to blood say blood, love mattresses, have a learn. jewels things wonderful, life their own carry that weight carry that carry that
