A Defense of Vermin by Peter Carellini
A Defense of Vermin by Peter Carellini My heart weeps for shady vermin They who scurry in pre-war nooks not caulked And under the eyes of social climbers, dwindle How I loathe parameters of holy and hellish! Mores is my kinship with wretched, sad refuse - Addicts, hustlers, whores, and lazybones Especially naive and ugly children Whom one would never find past gates of galas Or, worse, forgotten in the wake of storms! Simply because it is not cute enough! On my watch, we will not hunt hyenas Forced from paradise for mangy misery. I have sat on too wine mom sofas While toasting with six figure journeymen Siring perfect bastards and bitches - Listening to jerkoffs judge the jaundiced Or liberal voters’ kinder songs of shame. Give to me goblins and ghosts in graveyards Where the freakish come to cavort Where we shriek and cry and dwell in filth And, holding claws clenched so crassly, Destroy some foul notions in the air That damn the innocent fuck-ups spawned By forebearers trained to crush them As we spit on silk of purest white From our loving, spooky shadows!
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Peter is a filmmaker, photographer, actor and writer based in NYC. His photography and poems, short stories, and essays have been published in over a half dozen publications – including Travel + Leisure, Bruxelles Art Vue, Mythos Magazine – while his directorial film debut “Hello, World!” had its public premiere at the Greenpoint Gallery in October of 2021. He currently works as a background extra actor in several NYC film and television productions, while workshopping upcoming screenplays, stage plays, and a full novel. In his spare time, Peter loves to disco roller skate, find new things to do with his prosthetic, and travel the world!
