Guy Martyn is a writer and Headteacher. Helped set up a Free School, but with all the best intentions. Has studied Literature, Drama, Psychology, Mysticism and Religious Experience and is training in Psychotherapy. Has work forthcoming in the Crank Magazine.

 

 

 

Poems by Guy Martyn for morphrog23

The Economic Problem of Masochism

Me Acting Hard

Midweek Meal Planner

 

 

The Economic Problem of Masochism

 

Write all over my clothes until the clothes are words.

Erase my face yet say that I look good.

Obviate my email just call me @.

 

Make me sing all my secrets in a nursery voice

until the children prefer to be lost.

Tell me I am all suffix now.

 

Throw my name at a windfarm and sow it in the ground

crush the seedlings with your voice.

Handcuff the handcuffs to themselves.

 

Like winter wants autumn to strip it hard this time.

Like the cresting whale dies longer in the sky.

Hold your fist to my face like a wasp to a window.

 

Make a fetish of nothing and prefer it to me

meet it on dates and the back of your car

stroke it and pour all my gold in its jaw

 

place its hands through your chest its key in your blood

unlock the lock silent like a whisper in grass

rub it in ways that can’t possibly harm.

 

The idea of the bird in the mind of the pollen.

This is the ending so you won’t let it come

pleasure best unearned.

 

And here I am

the credit shot.

 

© Guy Martin

 

 

Me Acting Hard

 

me acting hard in the role of sildenafil / tadalafil / a part I was born to fill / you acting scared

/ no you acting like you care / you acting in the role of want / me practicing my moans in the

mirror / you acting the one who apple bobs / but doesn’t feed / I’ll get you there played by /

no let me take over / I’m tired of this game just roll over / listen as I spank it out of you / I’m

just acting concerned / self-hatred in the role of tenderness / inadequacy performs

dissolving into you / you turn on your side distressed / that all you do is meat for critique /

crunching forward elbows on knees / searching for the better view from this red plush /

mid-circle seat writing your review / like this mid-pause mid-brain / associated with vision

hearing arousal / crushed fabric and the smell of / broken china working its magic / mid-

arousal write your opening hook line / the dreamwork of the shaman / actor who sends us

waking into / our pain in public so we may / work to get the loneliness of dreams right

the day before

© Guy Martin

 

 

Midweek Meal Planner

Tuesday anyway it’s Tuesday and orange-spit streetlight

roundshoulders you down the week

over plates slackjawed at handing over the burning

leftover edges of crackerbread pizza and blackeyed eggs again

lovingly Mum bars all entry to the kitchen so you sit

in the dock in the jury room in the cockeyed glint of

everyone who’s ever watched the little lost hours of the

dead menu of their life cartwheel away and never come back

© Guy Martin