42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

13 September 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 3

To the Reader

Infatuation, sadism, lust, avarice

possess our souls and drain the body's force;

we spoonfeed our adorable remorse,

like whores or beggars nourishing their lice.


Our sins are mulish, our confessions lies;

we play to the grandstand with our promises,

we pray for tears to wash our filthiness;

importantly pissing hogwash through our styes.


The devil, watching by our sickbeds, hissed

old smut and folk-songs to our soul, until

the soft and precio