Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Michael Russell : the water-logged hard drive

 

 

my only friends are porn stars
whose soggy spines line the files
on my water-logged hard drive 

     shame     i’ll never know them

beyond pixels     cells     the cybernetic
virus that swells into my bank account
nibbles the frayed edges
of all my precious coins & bills
credit cards     debit cards     magic cards
that rumble & roar     shrivel
like a famished stomach     

             ugh     the shame

         this file     that file
         inaccessible & unreadable
         my priceless porn files
         water-logged & water boarded
         into corruption

i miss my bank collection!

the salt-ripe heist
of a masked stick up
                      the ass!

blood rushed & boned up
with Calvin     Brock     Riley     Andy     Beaux     Brad     

                 Boomer

stands on the periphery like a father     harnessed angel in leather     wings hovering above the nameless     he strokes his strong daddy dick like a cocky boy     edges me through movie star lighting & terrible acting     o! the smut! when he nails a willing sub     foreskin knifed into anal skin     lube sheen with halloween scream    

       once     i caught a glance

                   the back of his neck
                   clutched in the muscular jaws
                   of Sean Zevran’s palm

                   his face     pressed into hiding
                   crushed
                   by the perfect chisel of another
                   porn star    

i searched the internet for his pictures & uncovered a rose bush     inked flesh     blood bulbs & blossoms     thorns     each tattoo     an ode     love softening his knuckles     wings     clinging to his shoulder     throbbing above his infamous hard-on    

styled in a mosaic     a checkered jockstrap feasts on his hips     ass     i wonder     will i ever be able to love the cobwebs draped between worship     envy?

my basement troll body
rolls with dinner rolls against the laptop screen
buttered & oily     i sprout moldy broccoli
fuzzy-wuzzy     cutesy-wootsy sour patch kids
sugar seeds grow & troll my muffin cup folds 

     see my cauliflower tits
     turnip nips
     mushroom hair everywhere

oh     Boomer
if i dropped ½ my weight
½ my sadness     ¾ of everything
piled on my plate
do you think an ab or two might punch through
the bulletproof shield of my stomach? 

& what’s the point?

you’d still curdle at my flesh     wedged between this unlit room

& Sean Zevran

mounting the beast of your body     fucked senseless & moaning

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Calvin, Brock, Riley, Andy, Beaux, Brad and Boomer are all gay porn stars that perform with the surname “Banks.” Boomer Banks performed for the gay porn studio CockyBoys, their models are described as “cocky boys.” Sean Zevran is a gay porn star that did a scene with Boomer Banks.

 

 

 

 

Michael Russell (he/they) is the queer, mad mother monster behind two chapbooks, gallery of heartache (845 Press) and Grindr Opera (Frog Hollow Press). He’s the coauthor of chapbook Split Jawed with Elena Bentley (forthcoming from Collusion Books). When not entering the queer Speed Force and walking way too fast, they like long walks in the park and platonic dinners over flameless tea lights. Now, he’s reminding himself a bio is not a Grindr profile. Insta: @michael.russell.poet

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