"Amor Fati Baby" and "Miss Universe Last Place" by PJ Lombardo

Amor Fati Baby

Hell-bent devoted the ass
of my sun
Gazes deadly off your
silhouette

Hips loop muscular atmosphere
Like saltwater through a sunfish lung

Your kamikazee shoulders twinned upright
Gymnasium paradise forever

Leveled by timeless prayer
Roofs run with the magma of fate

Bewitched precise i scrap bread towards
Your deathless mallards

whenever you beckon, whatever you’re like

Miss Universe Last Place

I welcome my abdominis to the knife
I welcome my abdominis to the softness of your knife

Languishing in the berried
Lazarette

Ghost-riding under
Irreversible eye

Heartburn purples your arrival
Upon me

Every ape’s a wind-up doll

Winding down

infinity

& i am the grandson of the eschat
bleating your face All Alone

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PJ Lombardo is a writer from New Jersey. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, where he worked as a publishing assistant for Action Books. Currently, he co-edits GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetry. His work can be found in mercury firs, Works & Days, Lana Turner Journal and the Brooklyn Rail.