Issue Two – November 2014
MAYHEM
ISSN 2382-0322
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Faith Wilson
The Virgins Chewing the Kava Leaves
Watch the virgins chew the kava leaves
chew chew spit
chew chew spit
Do they have to take a virgin test
before they’re chosen?
A hymen inspection?
Signs of blood on
their bedding?
Watch the virgins smoke the tobacco leaves
behind their fathers’ backs
puff puff pass
puff puff pass
they blow smoke up his arse
and in front of mirrors,
obscuring with cloud yellow
fingertips to dip into blooded
dye, to smear across each cheek,
virginal, yes but virgin?
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Issue Two – November 2014
MAYHEM
ISSN 2382-0322
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Watch the virgins lick the dicks of matai
under ancestors’ roofs
suck suck slurp
suck suck slurp
limps up in her juju-lipped mouth
her eyes level with pe’a thighs and
when he turns around to wipe himself
she reads the story of his butt-cheeks
sings it like a song, dirties it with her
semen-painted tongue, replicates it
on her semen-smeared cheeks, they’re
ready for the tanoa,
chew chew spit
chew chew spit
back into the tanoa
watch the virgins’ eyes glow
as the matai pass the ‘ava round,
mouth to mouth,
lip to lip,
dick to dick,
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MAYHEM
Issue Two – November 2014
ISSN 2382-0322
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the Most Solemn of Rituals
the Great Circle Jerk.
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