Black Cobain
Donkey Punch? I Donkey Slap!
Part 8: 3 Lives in Chinese occupied America/Fiction
#59. The Stalin
Repping: Japan
YA: 80's-1993
Genres: Punk, J-Rock
Subject A: College Dropout/1
I was smoking a Double Happiness. That’s all that’s in stock nowadays.
Well, the only cheap stuff sold in packs anymore after that embargo in New West Beijing.
Pretty sure it’s 20% rat shyt.
When you have nothing to do walking and gawking makes time fly.
I’m such a lazy shyt. I almost trip.
A bum was blocking my way.
He was writhe on the concrete.
Blowing into a paper bag.
fukking glue sniffers.
I called him out. Hey! Bum!
Huff. Huff Huff. Huff Huff Huff. He replied, speaking only in blows.
The street lights gave his glazed face a brighter glow.
I recognized him. I think.
He went away when I looked out the puddle.
#60. Atombombpocketknifee
Repping: NYC
YA: 90's-2000's
Genres: Pop, Indie Rock
Subject B: Illegal Immigrant/1
I'm a salaryman.
At least that's what I tell the escort I visit, Lily.
I came to this city because of a suit.
I didn't have enough clothes, but I had a knife.
The fellow working the laundromat was an old Chinese man.
It was empty, and his back was turned.
There was no one near me either.
It was midnight, no, afternoon, afternoon.
I ran in the store and lunged at him.
I didn't stab him, I just flashed the knife at him and he dropped the bundle of clothing he had.
I took that and ran to the bus depot for a ticket.
But not before I changed into the suit I purloined.
It was expensive, but fit me well.
I boarded my bus to New Beijing and got a mechanic job with my cousin.
Soon after, I started going to bars and meeting with the escorts there.
I eventually met Lily, she's only doing this to pay for art school abroad, she says.
I lie and tell her I can take her away from this, that i'm just waiting for negotiations.
I wish it was true.
#61. MC Jumanji
Repping: Miami
YA: 2010's-Present
Genres: Grime
Subject C: Closeted Student/1
A friend invited me for drinks,
We went to a bar and the conversation got weird.
She just brought that question out of nowhere.
Hell was she talking about?
When did I what? I asked.
Come out the closet. She Replied.
I took a sip of my lager.
Didn’t need to, that’s for fags.
She looked at me like I jammed...like I jammed a shard of broken glass down her grandma’s throat.
Fags?! She was hysterical. Almost pierced my ear drum.
Yeah, fags, homos, yutao, queer, coc-
She cut me off. Don’t you have a boyfriend?
fukkbuddy. Romantic fukkbuddy.
We go bareback then we hold hands and cuddle.
Silence.
I kept hogging the Gulder. I ordered another round, she’s buying anyways.
Two longnecks in.
So..Fags? She was whispering.
A bunch of regulars just came in.
They wouldn’t take too kindly to a guy into felching around these parts.
She paid and we left to talk about this in private.
Well, probably lecture me on being a ‘self-hating gay’.
If I hated myself i’d be a bottom. Or a twink.
Whatever they call those effeminate, pretty ones.
#59. The Stalin
Repping: Japan
YA: 80's-1993
Genres: Punk, J-Rock
Subject A: College Dropout/1
I was smoking a Double Happiness. That’s all that’s in stock nowadays.
Well, the only cheap stuff sold in packs anymore after that embargo in New West Beijing.
Pretty sure it’s 20% rat shyt.
When you have nothing to do walking and gawking makes time fly.
I’m such a lazy shyt. I almost trip.
A bum was blocking my way.
He was writhe on the concrete.
Blowing into a paper bag.
fukking glue sniffers.
I called him out. Hey! Bum!
Huff. Huff Huff. Huff Huff Huff. He replied, speaking only in blows.
The street lights gave his glazed face a brighter glow.
I recognized him. I think.
He went away when I looked out the puddle.
#60. Atombombpocketknifee
Repping: NYC
YA: 90's-2000's
Genres: Pop, Indie Rock
Subject B: Illegal Immigrant/1
I'm a salaryman.
At least that's what I tell the escort I visit, Lily.
I came to this city because of a suit.
I didn't have enough clothes, but I had a knife.
The fellow working the laundromat was an old Chinese man.
It was empty, and his back was turned.
There was no one near me either.
It was midnight, no, afternoon, afternoon.
I ran in the store and lunged at him.
I didn't stab him, I just flashed the knife at him and he dropped the bundle of clothing he had.
I took that and ran to the bus depot for a ticket.
But not before I changed into the suit I purloined.
It was expensive, but fit me well.
I boarded my bus to New Beijing and got a mechanic job with my cousin.
Soon after, I started going to bars and meeting with the escorts there.
I eventually met Lily, she's only doing this to pay for art school abroad, she says.
I lie and tell her I can take her away from this, that i'm just waiting for negotiations.
I wish it was true.
#61. MC Jumanji
Repping: Miami
YA: 2010's-Present
Genres: Grime
Subject C: Closeted Student/1
A friend invited me for drinks,
We went to a bar and the conversation got weird.
She just brought that question out of nowhere.
Hell was she talking about?
When did I what? I asked.
Come out the closet. She Replied.
I took a sip of my lager.
Didn’t need to, that’s for fags.
She looked at me like I jammed...like I jammed a shard of broken glass down her grandma’s throat.
Fags?! She was hysterical. Almost pierced my ear drum.
Yeah, fags, homos, yutao, queer, coc-
She cut me off. Don’t you have a boyfriend?
fukkbuddy. Romantic fukkbuddy.
We go bareback then we hold hands and cuddle.
Silence.
I kept hogging the Gulder. I ordered another round, she’s buying anyways.
Two longnecks in.
So..Fags? She was whispering.
A bunch of regulars just came in.
They wouldn’t take too kindly to a guy into felching around these parts.
She paid and we left to talk about this in private.
Well, probably lecture me on being a ‘self-hating gay’.
If I hated myself i’d be a bottom. Or a twink.
Whatever they call those effeminate, pretty ones.