(Mark Yakich)
Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). His website is <markyakich.com>.
(Nathan Rittenhouse)
Nathan Rittenhouse is an illustrator, designer, photographer, writer and filmmaker. He spends most of his waking hours running his boutique design firm, Rittenhouse Communication Design. He spends the remaining hours taking in the many arts and cultural offerings of the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area with his lovely wife. Nathan resides in downtown Raleigh, NC. You can see more of his work at www.rittenhousedesign.com.
Paranoia, pre-anal sex
If everybody’s onstage who’s sitting
In the audience when you’re a corpse
Will it matter how many virtual
Friends you have in Sheboygan
The last time I ditched suicide
For sex and that itself is a differential
Equation that flatulence can fill that
Part between the legs who isn’t unmoved
By poetic data or a head gently laid
In an oven for celebrity’s sake get special
Blow yourself follow the least of
Your dreams bend the penis or
Boost the tits but don’t pretend
Giving head is sadness