“What the Keyhole Tastes” © Bill Wolak

 

You Tricked Me La La Land

Stop coughing on me
I’m switching to business class
Who’s gonna stop me?

Forced luggage search
A.D.H.D waking up
That’s for birth control.

Kenyan Uber
Green card lottery winner
American dream.

Bedbugs everywhere
I think I caught a tapeworm
E.R, here I come.

Switching home again
Suspicious odors and stains
I stepped on a roach.

My landlord is death
His dog barking without fail
Guns should be legal.

Frozen food is king
Sure, here is my credit card
Bank account being hacked.

 

Pop culture’s rising star Zoé Mahfouz navigates life with the heaviest burden there is, an illness no doctor was able to cure : the Gift of Greatness. Wherever she goes, she just lights up the room with her humor, her wit, her intelligence. It is fair to say that she is the life of the party, but she actually is The Life itself. Did you know that the name “Zoé” actually meant “Life” in grec? Of course you didn’t, you peasant. Whatever you think you accomplished so far in your pathetic miserable life, Zoé Mahfouz already done it. Twice. While performing a Woody Allen monologue. And receiving accolades in International Film Festivals. And killing a zombie target in a shooting range with a rifle twice her size. As it turns out, Zoé is actually a gym rat who can deadlift barbells heavier than her body weight. Period. I could advise you to have a look at her TikTok @Lessautesdhumeurdezoe, but you might feel blinded by her light, after all you don’t see goddesses every day. Also, while you were busy reading this, Zoé Mahfouz already wrote her new soon-to-be Award-Winning screenplay, which is probably going to cause the next bidding war in Hollywood. Some people might even say she is the 3rd (female) Coen Brother. Well, mostly her mom but that still counts.

Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2020 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2021 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).