SCUM: Society for Cutting Up Men
&, for my next trick…
it's time to cut up the man!
it's time to turn his (eye)balls to slivers!
it's time to watch as his worm recedes
& his furrowed brow screams a plea
while I'm taking a scalpel to his
descriptions & redacting his reality, he
pauses, as his auto-penetration is realised:
plunging his penis in my a priori posterior, he
meanders to meet my eyes: lazilylazily
(a looking outreach without retina touch): I'm
disestablishing a hair grown long past its follicle:
dissecting a man with a delirious fable
I'm scraping limb after limb from chopping board
to bin: a body discarded, (re/dis)membered
no favour is cradled by his glares
as he hastens again to dam braided streams
(my plaits are not shibari
my slit is not a sl(u/o)t machine)
"here I am: knife in hand:
free castration on [de(man)d]!"
//
previously published in 'chrysalis (d[i]s)section' (5ever books, 2025).
o(l[i]ve)(*) (bly(th)) is an outer-disciplinary artist, currently living in Te Whanganui a Tara / she is deeply interested in circles & has recently been playing the piano, writing poetry, painting, & poking ink into skin / (her) paintings & drawings have been exhibited at MEANWHILE & Uindō95 / (her) poetry has been previously published by a fine line, bad apple, Circular, Mote, & 5ever Books / @wiggle.wiggle.inc (www.instagram.com) //