BIOMANUAL

In other lands,
women like me,
After scarification rites,
Dressed in ebony and ivory circles
Stacked up On their necks,
Fill their vaginas
with live snakes
For fertility.
So don’t complain, babe.
                        

At night I float up the sky
and I engrave chalky scribal spirals
on the left quadrant of the firmament
All I see is my small white fist chipping
Away at the stars knocking down imaginary beasts
of fluff
On which ignorant girls & boys ride in love.


Beauty breeds pain, babe,
which the free learn best from the slaves.


Between the wed dead woman & man
Gapes a dark wet black hole
Through which buoyant boys & giggly girls
Slide back & forth forever
making babies.


Beauty hooks me like a lover by
the gut, by the uterus to be exact,
Where Zeus’ sperms swirl
like mad silver boats
On nights when my hands smell
of tobacco & pussy
& I can go to sleep if I lick them.

The rest of all time
the spirits speak to me
Cuntinuously.

At night all the jolts hit
like questions: Who are we, Where
Are we going taking this, What
16 yr old pussy
Is she talking to at 3am
& isn’t picking up my calls
Why are we not watching TV
instead of our tears
mingle on the headstep
I meant the headstone where
we’ve been sitting way too long
when we could be stretching
doing our sadhana holding space
flowing our temples through some kriya or assana
Here, yes, here
on this nondescript perch where
we were propped up when
we plopped out of the maker pussy
onto this sepiatone escarpment
that craters in the foothills of a peak
and looms over an open-sight gulf
in this wood or brick or concrete home
for centuries already,
tearing away.

There’s no music
In the word hunger.


You said: I live with the secret terror
that I’ll watch you move
away one day
and now you are
moving out and when
I ask why me,
you say,
I warned you.

The one truth that matters is:
I love you with my mind
also.
But I like to live a little.

I want men falling from rooftops
For me
but on Lesbos
Where I was born
there are wilder birds
Than boys
To catch for toys
 
Does that mean I am a gun
from the feminine
in which both names mean war?
 
Amerika is the herpes on my mouth
the empty spot in my photo album
 
I can dredge any coffee cup for a wish
and read it like the book of every fate
 
this finds me in the pink of health
and I wonder how I will stay sick
 

-EURYDICE EVE







Do Not Die, 331212

They make is seem like they care about you.
A baby walking down the hall,
holding the officer's hand.

He tells the baby what to do.

They pretend to guide the baby's unknowing innocence,
towards a better tomorrow.

All drugged up.
All slumped up.
A slumpie in a soft jailed crib,
desperately waiting to know where to go.

The store does not have that kind.
It's the clinic.
what does the baby need to be properly sedated?

Just tell me so I'll know what to do.

Placed to sleep.
A place to sleep
Like a baby, like a dying baby in a soft jailed crib.


I am that baby.

Mandate me, Search me, Provoke me.
Take me away, for there really is no danger to follow your ways.
That is what you want me to believe.

I am no longer a baby who follows the officer down the hall.
Who I blindly followed
Who I blindly followed
Who I blindly followed
born into the soft jailed crib.

It is they who did us wrong
Who blindly betray our trust
Who want us to blindly follow them into the darkness of their systematic birth canal.


My name is 331212

I was born yesterday and will die tomorrow

You betrayed my trust.
You removed my name.
My time is now yours.
You can erase me.

I am nothing and everything: a threat to your plan.

My name is 331212

Things will not go as planned.

-Beláxis Buil






II. When we Fly

When we fly 
we sometimes feel the drop. 
When we resist, 
the nature of love persists.
Destruction is means for a fresh start.
A new way, a new love, a new family.
Death and ruination make passes to immortality. 
The home we left behind brings wind to fan the air beneath my wings.
[one of us rises]
The space the hope created betwixt the falls and dark starts is where my new home takes shape.
[another one of us rises]
The space where our dreams smell sweeter than the scent of rosewater treats.
[the last two rise together]
And the windows of my eyes stare out of this hole in the wall knowing that one day this dirty ditched basement will be but a memory.
The simple reign of the old destruction now making a brave new start.
[we all dance like children]
In the emptiness of our past a doorway creeps open to show us how we got here.
[we all start laughing]
Abandoned children of an abandoned war who rise from the rubble of our empty shelled ashes.
[we all fall down]
Forsaken generation, soulful and willfully breaking political boundaries to make a fresh start.
[we softly rise from the dead]
It’s now all up to me. And You. And WE. Together in a United Treaty, WE create the next wave of synchronized Humanity. 
And WE,
are Lost, No more.
And we are here, 
to settle the score for all the Children who survive the war. 
The broken and the sewn children mending fresh paths for humanity’s rise.
Because there are still ways all hope may be won. 
Because the war game played left me deep in the dust of devastation:
I am nothing. 
I hear the death drummer burst his deep bass through the walls of my home. 
I hit the dust. 
I become dust. I escape the dust. I miss the dust
I am to begin again, 
as a child of war.
A migratory pattern that I strive to the end,
To fill the tide of darkness with all of the light that my broken heart can send.
Inside creviced chalices,
Red love abides, 
Ruby drops spilling as my heart is beating for a new day to dream, 
a new way to make a life in languages unknown, faces and places unseen. 
So much heat in the bulletproof vest of my happiness,
The gory glory of re-setting the broken hearted story. 
Thus, I yearn,
And thus I rise in the tidal wave of war facing humanity. All the children of war, rise together as we settle the peacekeeping score. 

-Sanam Erfani






XIV. Light Cometh

The Light Comes Nigh,
Nearer to Oneness
Than midnight Sky. 
In mourning there lies a secret,
A delicate treatlet opening doors to shades of helpless hope that no one knew.
Come find me in mystery’s fold,
Turn the faces of old to see risings anew stepping through hands of time that only ancients knew. 
The veils are breaking down again for you,
The way opening for blessings to brew. 
Five years ago I burned in flames,
My earthly belongings, my dear friend, my beloved, my name. Everything I had became nothing and homelessness held my hand and head.
A beggar on the foot steps of friends who gave me couches and beds and even one cold night in a stairwell where with angels I was held. 
From the deeps I rise to face a dark night with my shadow in tow. 
Together my light and my dark are squaring the woe. 
P t s d was what stole my family soil and soul,
Warriors losing battles enough to forget not to grow cold. 
But my heart, after 43 years of battles unwun, antiheroes unsung,
Lies awake through a dark night of my sun. 
No one but me is here for this dark day. 
No one but me knows the harsh journey I have led. 
My feet are battered,
My soul full of pockmarked wounds,
My heart beating stronger,
Pangs of regrets begging forgiveness’ Dawn. 
I sit in prayer,
A whisper of faith beseeching me:
Hold onto the light,
Dear one,
And you shall see your darkness is new life. 
The burned soil of your poverty is being repaired,
The homeless nomad is coming home to rest. 
This weary heart may not believe it yet,
But the road to my healing has found a new bed. 
Never give up. 
Never give in. 
The road to love 
Is often deeply hidden. 
Live in the mystery 
And love without possessory.
Give back to the land,
Eat food as medicines you see.
And love will find you again. 
As will some form of family. 
As One you begin a new castle.
Your way be writ in stone,
A crystal palace where your hearth 
Is finally to be your own. 
In losing everything
Even your dignity,
You win the heart of courage 
That rises with Love for all eternity.

-Sanam Erfani

Parthenon of the Gucci Gods

You nearly made me pee in my wholly trousers

Your head was cocked back, as a speck of light bounced off your cheap ass Walmart grillz,
You know, the ones you wear around all them sweaty tan, brown, golden body girls

Every time I see you step into the Parthenon of  the corrupt Gods
my supposed safe space- but rather-more of your safe space of scams, deceitful attacks
a meeting hall of virginal sacrifices, witch hunts and self-righteous declarations
the declarations you play so cunningly well
like a hurt lamb
a lamb wearing wool,
but really a wolf in sheep's clothes
or a wolf wearing Walmart grillz
and Gucci, Gucci, Gucci

I excrement pain
I know of your hysteria
a hysterical jackal
a hysterical hyena

prowling around my supposed safe space
in the Parthenon of the corrupt Gods

Today you shed off you sheep's skin
your wool
your fur
whatever the hell it is that you wear

Today you show up- amongst the Gods
wearing a bright beaming Gucci suit
It's Gucci, it's Gucci, it's Gucci
you like cucci
and you begin to recite a history
while you hold a book
in which you recorded false accounts

The history begins how you begat tones of addictions and horrifying songs of torment
your child calls
your child cries
and the Gods all love your pain

They are corrupt
like you
All the God's sit there
in their Gucci, Gucci, Gucci
they like cucci, cucci, cucci

Oh, so delightfully do you sing
the song they want to hear
Your notes muffle out my cry
my cry, from my belly

And all the Gods jeer at me
their Walmart grillz shining ever so bright
using the illuminating power to shield their corruption
They sing from their rotten mouths 'Shield the Parthenon from any harm!'

THEY are untouchable
they are above the law
above the land
above the stars

Your song is a poisonous gas,
a venomous laughter jolts from underneath the clouds of your toxic hymn
but your voice falters
it cracks

lightning strikes at your vice
your wicked ways
your Gucci,. Gucci, Gucci suits
and cheap ass Walmart grillz

Your mouth shatters
your teeth crack
your voice falters
the Parthenon of the corrupt Gods crumble
Your power is gone
Your Hitler is dead
Your poisonous gas fades out
Your safe space is now mine

I conquered, I conquered, I conquered
Your terrorizing words are now flimsy, fumbling sounds
your tongue flaps away in the wind
it was a game
you are pathetic, you were all pathetic

The sweaty brown, gold, tan bodies
are now white, pale and sickly
They are like fleas jumping off your skin
your sheep's cheap skin
crawling
biting you
gnawing away at their disappointment in you
hating you in return for the falsehoods you gifted them

You fake
You, scam
poison

Give me back my safe space
Give me back my Gucci , Gucci, Gucci suits
the ones I bought, for you

-Beláxis Buil

BIOMANUAL  
A poem in the form of A Brain dump

Occupy the Man
Beauty will save the world
Does the Body like habit more than love?
Does the Body like love more than reason?
Does the Body bloom in patterns?
Raw, nasty, shocking, in your face, face-off.
Between me & the world, bet on the world.
everything comes and goes and is mortal.
So Eat Me

experimenting with lalala.
Smell of rage, smell of rape.
Smell of being wanted by the Man. 

The concentrated succulent pleasure of the rip and pull of a moving body of water between
Me & the world

Am not who I am?

YOUR LAUGH IS LOUDER THAN 9/11, MOM!

My god appears in front of me in the body of the bird that alights then takes off into the sun 
May I take flight upon the sight of God
breath of life breath of light breath of god, 

May I live As a stranger and a pilgrim.
I Am not who I am but I am also who I am not.
I Am not One but I Am also not All who are not.
I Am not who my Mom my Son my Dog my Bro my Bestie my Squad my Boss my Folk even You know me to be. Not who I know me to be. Not who I think I am. You & I are who I Am.

If the whole world were a single nation, I’d still be a foreigner. 

-Eurydice Eve








III. I dream in shades 
I dream in shades of a magenta sky
Where the warmth of my blood pulses
With the rhythms of this morning’s hustles
A simple look from the Sun is all I want
A subtle ray to cover me healing wounds
One by one the rays come
Cover me with their warmth
And I rise to the call of the dawn
Phoenix calling forth my heart
Each moment a right of passage for me to groove
For me to shift and find my way through the toil
Because all I feel is this moment 
And all I am is for this endless limit. 
Love holds me as I lightly laugh
Weeping tears through my shining teeth. 
It’s all a question and the answer is within me.
-Sanam Erfani






Flowers.

Near the creak a white house stood
Sitting quietly in a vacant lot  of white, red and marigold
Flowers.

Secrets wafting through the air 
mushroom clouds of aroma
To sweet to want to share, to rotten to want to smell

Giant locusts jumping amidst the beaming summer days
Yet seek refuge on tempestuous days 

Days darkened by the burden of existence
Leaves to weak to fight the chaotic whirlwind of freedom
Heavy is the tree whose limbs crack off

Twigs mount up, guarding the passage up the winding road to the white house

A house that should be made forgotten
In wreckage
In sand
In dirt
through time


Forget those who lived there.
Bring in the Flowers. 

Guarding the trails are large serpentine creatures with large mouths 
And forked tongues
Their forked tongues stand in place of the blades of grass
It slices my skin 
it stings with truth


Flowers. Flowers. I see Flowers.

The house sings a hymn each night, as the winds blows through the winding halls
Corridors so long one, might have thought to have escaped into another creature's dream

Another dream
Another place
Another space
Another home

But there were Flowers. Flowers. Lots of Flowers.

Home amongst the giant dinosaurs and crocodiles
Where I waltz with wind and rain
Dancing with huge dandelions
I am free and untamed
The jungle
The wild
The free and untamed
Is where I see Flowers, Flowers. I am a Flower.

-Beláxis Buil