 
EASTER, HER BEAUTY AND HER THIRST
It is time to raise the knife: to let run the blood of the hare warm from throat over clenching hand and down to thirsting chill spring earth below.
It is her time, and our time to honor her: Eostre, whose name in Northumbria is Eastre, true goddess of this equinox.
Unto her, now, this wicked and most holy day,
robbed and vandaled from her
by fool, foreign, funereal cult, set in sin against her
and all that is sacred, ordained, and good.
Unto her, now, this wicked and most holy day, reclaimed and resurrected.
Unto her.
© 2008 by Nick Tosches, Inc.
MY KIND OF LOVING
What is it with you people who don’t understand
the senseless slaughter of animals?
What is it with you people
who don’t want to wear fur?
I want to fuck you in fur.
Kill me a Kennedy;
that’s my idea of foreplay.
Bring me his fucking pig-faced mick head
on a silver platter-
No, better yet: Aynsley makes these plates,
22-karat gold and blue Cobalt-
Fuck the silver; bring me his head on one of those.
Wear your diamond-seamed stockings,
special shoes from Brazil.
I’ll see you there.
I’ll see you there.
© 1998 by Nick Tosches, Inc.
I, WITH A KNIFE TO THE THROAT OF CYBELE
I, with a knife to the throat of Cybele,
lie beneath the sky of spring,
awaiting night and the sapphire light of stars
whose birth was hers, my mother’s, own.
Her eyes are unafraid,
as I feared they would be;
and the tide of her breath,
which was once my own,
within the April of her breast
and the April of her neck,
governs more than does my hand
the stillness of the blade;
and her blood is my blood, and the blade
is the blade of that which is
between us, alone, and in the end governed
neither by hand nor by breath
but only by what the sapphire light
of this her evening has ordained.
© 1998 by Nick Tosches, Inc.
Nick Tosches is the author of books and of “breath from dead places”. He has written for Creem, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Penthouse, Playboy, and many other publications. He lives in what used to be New York City.
The poems I, WITH A KNIFE TO THE THROAT OF CYBELE and MY KIND OF LOVING have been taken from CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS, (CUZ Editions 1998). Both titles can be heard on BLUE EYES AND EXIT WOUNDS, the author’s Spoken Word CD collaboration with Hubert Selby, Jr. You may learn more of Nick Tosches and his collection of work via MYSPACE and his WEBSITE.
-Melissa Hansen
Books by Nick Tosches (but not limited to):
COUNTRY (1977)
HELLFIRE (1982)
UNSUNG HEROES OF ROCK 'N' ROLL (1984)
POWER ON EARTH (1986)
CUT NUMBERS (1988)
DINO: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (1992)
TRINITIES (1994)
CHALDEA (1999)
THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON (2000)
THE NICK TOSCHES READER (2000)
WHERE DEAD VOICES GATHER (2001)
THE LAST OPIUM DEN (2002)
IN THE HAND OF DANTE (2002)
Spoken Word & Music:
BLUE EYES AND EXIT WOUNDS (1998)
Spoken Word CD w/Hubert Selby, Jr.
NICK & HOMER (1998)
Music CD w/Homer Henderson
FUCKTHELIVINGFUCKTHEDEAD (2004)
Spoken Word and Music CD
Track “WILD LEAVES” w/Patti Smith
FOR THE TAKING (2006)
Spoken Word and Music CD
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