Yellow Mama E zine

Evil

 

by Simon MacCulloch

 

Evil rots

And as it rots, it drips

And as it drips, accumulates, coagulates

In malformed shapes that seek out fresh conglomerates.

 

Those shapes, words

Whose steamy whisper slips

And slides like syrup in your ear tonight in bed

And sets like undigested food to fill your head.

 

Rotting food

That dribbles from your lips

And makes the things you try to say all sound the same

An endless dripping repetition of my name.

 

 

       Simon MacCulloch lives in London and contributes poetry to a variety of publications, including Spectral Realms, Bowery Gothic, Black Petals, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, and others.

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Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.

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Joseph Richkus is an enthusiastic illustrator, photographer, writer, and reader. He has been an essential oil perfumer for more than 20 years, and has worked as a history teacher, chemist, security guard, and circus canvasman. He bemoans the limits of time and regrets that he is not 10 people, one of whom would happily devote every waking hour to reading the Sunday New York Times.