Tricksters are summoned in two poems by Laszlo Aranyi
Dead Genie in a Bottle
The dusty, cobwebbed mummies of bottles.
Moon larvae, homunculus spores.
Clotted-green and hairy mold
cover the paprika potato left on the plate.
Worms’ waste-panopticon. Shock-headed old woman
from the shit-smelling doorway: “if you’ll buy me a drink,
I’ll show you my hairy cunt”. Nine shining chitin armors
hide the wrecked swag-belly of the planets.
The web-weaving spider-king’s
sending nine fearsome warriors; they all fall.
Loki, as a gadfly torments the
Dwarf Brock (fat, death row inmate: squeaky violin),
yet he forges a strange, magical ring,
And every ninth night
he gives birth to eight of the same rings.
Hungary steams like a garbage dump,
you can feel the nauseatingly putrid,
festering earth’s flesh as saliva drips
while the varicose fetish neighs.
(Translated by Gabor Gyukics)
Palackba zárt, döglött szellem
Palackok porlepte, pókhálós múmiái.
Holdlárva, homunculus-spórák.
Alvadt-zöld, szőrösödő penész
a tányéron maradt paprikás krumplin.
Hulladék-panoptikum, pondróké. Borzasfejű vénasszony a
szarszagú kapualjból: „ha fizetsz egy kisfröccsöt,
megmutatom a szőrös pinnámat”. Kilenc fénylő kitinpáncél
rejti a bolygók roncsolt potrohát. Kilenc rettentő harcos küld
a hálószövő pókkirály; elhullnak mind.
Loki bögölyként kínozza a
törpe Brockot (hájas halálraítélt: nyekergő hegedű),
ő mégis különös, mágikus gyűrűt kovácsol,
s az minden kilencedik éjszakán
nyolc ugyanolyan gyűrűt szül.
Szeméttelepként gőzölög Magyarország, tapintható az
orrfacsaróan émelyítő, gennyes földhús, nyál csorog, nyerít a
visszeres fétis.
Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon)
Hungarian poet, anarchist, and occultist.
Earlier books: (szellem)válaszok, A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya . New: Kiterített rókabőr. English poems published: Quail Bell Magazine, Lumin Journal, Moonchild Magazine, Scum Gentry Magazine, Pussy Magic, The Zen Space, Crêpe & Penn, Briars Lit, Acclamation Point, Truly U, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Lots of Light Literary Foundation, Honey Mag, Theta Wave, Re-side, Cape Magazine, Neuro Logical, The Daily Drunk Mag, Unpublishable Zine, Melbourne Culture Corner, Beir Bua Journal, Crown & Pen, Dead Fern Press, Coven Poetry Journal, Journal of Erato, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillover Magazine, Punk Noir, Nymphs Literary Journal, Synchronized Chaos, Impspired Magazine, Fugitives & Futurists, The Dope Fiend Daily, Mausoleum Press, Nine Magazines, Thanks Hun, Downtown Archive, Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal, Our Poetry Archive (OPA), Juniper Literary Magazine, Feral Dove Magazine, Alternate Route, CENTRE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ONTOLOGY, Bullshit Lit Magazine, Misery tourism, Terror House Press, Journal of Expressive Writing, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, WordCity Literary Journal, Wilder Literature Magazine, Roadside Raven Review, Death’sDormantDaughter, Rasputin, Amphora Magazine, Dope Fiend Daily, THIN SLICE ANXIETY, Dark Entries, FLEAS ON THE DOG, Dumpster Fire Press, DON’T SUBMIT!, Horror Sleaze Trash Magazine, Outcast Press, DOGZPLOT Magazine, BLACK STONE / WHITE STONE, Impractical Things Magazine, Medusa’s Kitchen, Beatnik Cowboy, LET’S STAB CAESAR!, THE PEACH Magazine, FATHERFATHER Magazine, Gorko Gazette, Jupiter Review, Word For/Word Magazine, Poetry As Promised Lit Mag, Setu, Dire Need, All Ears (India), Rhodora Magazine, Arc Magazine, ShabdAaweg Review (India), Utsanga (Italy), Postscript Magazine (United Arab Emirates), The International Zine Project (France), Swala Tribe Magazine (Rwanda), The QuillS Journal (Nigeria). Known spiritualist mediums, art and explores the relationship between magic.
I am marginalised in my own country!
Editor-in-Chief’s Note: As an anarchist and degenerate poet, I gotta say it. WOW. This writer’s bio is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
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