- Spencer Mirabal
“Lukewarm”
This poem was originally published on The Pittsburgher’s predecessor, The Dog Door Cultural.
No man
is allowed exemption from
cashing in on his
rewards punch card for
a few self-foreman’ed freebie
go-aheads to give
dry straight blade shaves to
prepubescent testicles
for being
patronizing and awful
intermittently
but a
throwaway
retrospective response
of this
heinous shit
is
not enough
the doufessness in bringing a
lukewarm damp towel
hours after the fact
to clean up a puddle of
sperm and blood
leaking out of
rotten refrigerated
bell pepper bodies
mumbling
Whoops
Huh
Wonder how that happened
Well
I guess we’ll get ‘em
NEXT time, buddy boyz!! ▲
Spencer Mirabal is a poet and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Other semi-artistic activities include meticulously curating seasonal Spotify playlists for his rabid 92 followers and tirelessly adjusting his fantasy basketball lineup.