Poetry
Prairie Fire, Tom Schmidt:
“reads like a freight train bearing down on you”
“ferocious feminist verse that chews up the patriarchs of western
civilization from Freud to Plato to the Pope and spits them out.”
CV2, Tanis MacDonald:
“intelligent and hilarious”
“not for anyone who wishes to keep their dogma chained up in their mental backyard.”
Wireweed:
“splendid”
“Friesen is a stand-up comic”
“uproariously, ribaldly funny”
“she has merged with the goddess Kali”
READING: MAE WEST DOES EVE
God’s Penis
He finds it eternally funny
Christians have a problem
with His anatomy.
They wanted a male God
yet
can’t imagine Him actually using it
but would God
have a useless appendage?
He smiles, spews forth another
hundred thousand stars.
Mae West Does Eve
Pull a man’s penis
and he’ll unravel
like a skein of wool.
It was something my mother taught me.
I’ll tell you why I found the snake so appealing.
I was just looking for a man who was all dick.
How much fun do you think Adam could have been
before sin was invented?
Oh.
Give me an airplane.
Anytime.
Acceleration.
The impact
that comes
right up
through me
when it swallows its wheels.
Fly me into the black rainbow of dawn
Baby.
Perhaps for obvious reasons this book, published by Coteau Books, is now out of print. It can still be purchased from the author: bernicefriesen@bernicefriesen.com
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