Images of Sex and Suffering

By Jake Haze

This is a collection of poems that are usually dark and sexual in nature. Symbols from literature and mythology inform the author's thoughts on his life and the world in which he lives. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, always engaging.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312082021

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Images of Sex and Suffering

Images of Sex and Suffering

Copyright 2014 by Jake Haze

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-312-08202-1

Contact: [e-mail]

Dedications

For my mother and my grandmother

And my sister, Aunt Liz, and Maxwell

And everyone who helped raise me

And everyone who motivated me

About the Collection and Author

Jake Haze is the pen name of a late twenties English teacher living in the Chicagoland area. Besides words, he likes cage fighting, video games, and cats. He has been writing for almost two decades. This is his first collection, and he has an extremely limited publication history.

These poems were written between 2008 and 2014. They have appeared in no other major or minor publications. They are the sole and original works of the author.

If you have any questions or comments for the author directly, he can be contacted at [e-mail].

He hopes you enjoy reading these.

Other Works by Jake Haze

Kama Sutra for Children: 40 Days of Poetry

Poems

Ten Visions of a Death

Malcontent

Revelations Between 47th and Garfield

Young Forever

My Mother's Hysterectomy

The Sweetness of Salvation

Prayers for Sons and Daughters

Bodies

Owning the Masters

I Don't Believe in Evolution

Wheel of Samsaricide

Love Poem

The Death of Beowulf

Untitled

What Do You Want to Do After College?

Hypersex Collage

Pubescence

Burning Man Outlet

Death by Water

Pravritti Marga

The Immortal Victim

My First Time

The Dot Is Silent

Ballad of the Lonely Fornicator

Humility at the Strip Club

Tell Me TED Things about Orgasms, Mary Roach

Afterglow

Are We Ready for Some Football?

Alarms

Eternal Secret of the Teachers

The Art of War

The First Thrilling Touch

Suburban Kid Shuffle

Ten Visions of Death

I

In seventh grade I found a bluejay

dead on the sidewalk.

Above, between two branches,

a nest, and I guessed

that little guy had failed at flying.

I put a Doritos bag over its body

and stomped on it just to see,

to end its misery.

II

There are men in white coats

holding my mother’s hand, apologizing

while she shudders like a dead fish.

Three of them hold out tissues, white flags.

They surrender.

III

May we be strong and pure

and thereby more fit vessels

for His holy light.  Amen.

IV

Look at the coffin-kissers,

tie-straighteners, jokers, criers,

little kids, men in wheelchairs

with limbs gnawed by diabetes

all dressed in ties, buttons, veils,

rented suits, wrinkled dresses.

What a dark carnival!

V

Everyone is hugging, sharing their sadness,

while I’m trying to bury some hot thing

crawling up my throat.

My sister claws and soaks my shoulders.

My eyes fixate on doors, EXIT