Malik Berry

“I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Now We Think

Now we think
as we fuck
this nut
might kill us.
There might be
a pin-sized hole
in the condom.
A lethal leak.
We stop kissing
tall dark strangers,
sucking mustaches,
putting lips
tongues
everywhere.
We return to pictures.
Telephones.
Toys. Recent lovers.
Private lives.
Now we think
as we fuck
this nut might kill.
this kiss could turn
to stone.”
― Essex Hemphill

“There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan