Funk
Garrett Kurai
Poetry smells
the funk that is all around us– funk
of birth, funk of fuck,
and funk of flesh
turned to fungus.
It will funk you,
funk your mother
and funk your cute
little kitten too.
Lee Dorsey divined‒
Everything you do
is gohn be funky
from now on.
Garrett Kurai’s poems are residents of Monolid, Statement: A Journal of the Creative and Critical Arts at CSULA, (Sic) Vice & Verse, and recited in the Radio Poetique series on the PennSound University of Pennsylvania website. A graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, he lives in his hometown of Los Angeles. When not writing poems, he collects a wall of sound and DJs. His music heroes are Robert Wyatt and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.