"Case Study: An Interview with a Catatonic Schizophrenic about her Résumé" and "A Brief History of Evil Dolls"

Case Study: An Interview with a Catatonic Schizophrenic about her Resume

 

A megalomaniac texture that tastes delicious

Everything represents The Brand

The behavior has gone since the late times died

presenting three patients that

they heard in hallucinations

(oblivious of the environment)

 

How are you and what happened?

Don't you feel like shaking hands with me?

the alias of the extraterrestrials lead to

automatic obedience

 

Business as usual.

A random Brain was opened and they cut out her images.

Blood was smeared against the kitchen cabinets

Sloppy noises accentuated during her LSD trip.

 

When her head is gone

Resting behind confinement bars

Occasionally murmuring or whimpering

We’ll feel much better in plague infested suburbia

Ravaged by hate

Gauging her arousal in the low light as

They watch the monitors

A feasibility study gone wild

 

modest amounts of sand she can't imagine as

the dust gets blown away on the abandoned mesa

right by the feet of the Howling Kat Nightclub Girls.

Ladies who were frequent collaborators with the powers that be

For money and love but mostly money

Twisted Sirens

 

Her lover collapsed underneath as her pale lithe frame

Twisted the remnants of its body

Flesh soaked with sweat and unknown clear liquids

 

She flashed on familiar images:

The crucifixion of James Dean and Sal Mineo among others

For the mutable sins of cruising rough trade

(just a rumor, just a rumor)

As arborescent skeletons sprouted in the abandoned fields

 

She flashed on a familiar image:

Her extended family fading away

 

The faded handbill jolted memories:

“Nowhere so glamorous a floor show

Dozens of women saucily costumed

Never a cover charge

Fine food

Moderate Prices

Open 6 P.M. to 4 A.M.

Lou Walters’ LATIN QUARTER

B’WAY at 48th CI6-1737”

 


 

A Brief History of Evil Dolls

 

[WHISPERING INAUDIBLE]

 

Solemn Accountants are sent on time

We meet on stories beyond lines – a cure for Saturday evening

In the Stratosphere Shadows

So absorbed

Continue to suck at the

Surgery and radiation for

The cult of advertisement

 

She helped the dogs while graciously fucking her lover

 

[GROANS]

 

These individuals are marked

By the biochemical game – the Magdalene Virus

Licking the spoon, relishing the final remains of

The death drug

 

Submissive as she was

She scribbled electric words around her mouth

 

(activity ecstatic)

 

A soliloquy for the Erection Muscle

Torn and tattered, 7 dogs tingled

As the neoplastic tourist approached

 

From the hotel of permanent parting

Where Gloria Vanderbilt models were stealing belongings

From impoverished families

 

[REMOVE SOUNDTRACK DUE TO INFECTIONS]

 

Pray to the throne of Isis in the factory

Ask about her jigsaw scarabs keeping the beat

Photographed by vengeful animals of

Uncertain origins

 

Hot make-out for the mannequins

She screamed, then screamed again as she

Worshiped the anorexic saints

 

“Watch me! Watch me!”

Massaging the heads, whatever happens

Something for me again

Took about an hour to polish and 1o seconds of satisfaction

Drug-sick bitch, you like to see it, The Oracle says

– you don’t understand, grandchild of Altamount

Jeering and shouting – it breaks the line of shadows while

Withdrawing, redrawing and re-penetrating

 

and she got all dressed up for a party

A parody of Catholic initiations

a strange turn-off

entranced by the centrality of the Eye.

 

[RESTORE SOUNDTRACK DUE TO INFECTION]

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Peter Marra

Originally from Gravesend Brooklyn, Peter Marra lived in the East Village, New York from 1979 to 1993 during the punk – no wave era. His work often deals with the people we rarely notice – addicts, the unhoused, sex workers, etc. seen through a surrealist lens.

His published works include approximate lovers, Peep-O-Rama, Vanished Faces, Random Crucifixions and a neo-giallo novel, A Naked Kiss from a Broken Doll.

His newest poetry / prose collection, A Dirty Diary of Ordinary Days recounting his time spent haunting Times Square and the East Village of NYC circa 1977-1990 was published by INCUNABULA MEDIA in 2025.