2 Poems by Abigail Barnes and 2 Poems by Adam Lehrer

Dueling poems between Adam Lehrer and the mysterious Abigail Barnes

“Artnet Fired Me” by Abigail Barnes

I showed up 3 hours late
”Dewy”
With carbon black pupils
The size of a dime

…Bag
I’m wearing a Marni floral crepe mini-dress and wedge espadrilles

I was taking raw Hunter cock all last night at The Pierre
I’d call a car but I’m afraid I’ll leave a snail trail
In the Toyota RAV4
My lips are chapped

”God Will” by Adam Lehrer

God will – find the power and fix(?) it?
Without strength, absent honor
Vaping, absent-mindedly
Wrap my hand round cock, eyes closed, and drifting, through a tropical Island engulfed in smoke

An image of a vertical slit
Horror, living in squalor
Cumming, eating her ass out
Wrap my hand round cock, eyes closed, and trapped, beneath the ruins of a cobblestone mansion

Nowhere to run to baby, Nowhere to hide

I got Nowhere to run to baby, Nowhere to hide

It's not love I'm runnin' from

Just the heartbreak I know I’m awful

”The Kiss” by Abigail Barnes

Hunter kissed me
In a black Range Rover
With tinted windows

His new chiclet grill
Tasted even larger and whiter
Than they appeared to be
On Raya

I wore a malachite, rose silver and cobalt blue
Missoni Mini-Dress
no bra
no panties

His paintings are terrible
but he’s so fucking hot and sweet

I get a little wet
Thinking about the secret service agents
Stoic
in identical black Range Rovers

Sandwiching us

Knowing I’m the kind of girl
Who sucks off the leader of the free world’s son
In a Range Rover
On a first date

Before Art Basel

”A Totem” by Adam Lehrer

With thirst of Nosferatu, pure instinct as the mind becomes a barren desert of eternal night, an Iron Cross rule 
The Death God of Memphis
The King of Rock N’ Roll
Benzodiazepines take effect but sleep taunts me still, it laughs in my fucking face

Lock me up in Alcatraz, blessed by motivation to escape; Now’s the time, for reification
The rape god of Stockholm
The King was sodomized
Her bruised, thin face running with bad lipstick, pimp smacked by the man who said that he loved her…

We listen to groove metal bands before we jump overboard without knowing how to swim, heads floating and gargling water
All the gods – they weep hail
Bio-weapons released
X-Pac and HHH’s broken friendship –  a totem to the treachery of women

ILUSTRATIONS
1. Kev Tobin, Doom Boogie Woogie (2021)
2. Kev Tobin, Camouflage Bat (2021)