Madrigals 
i 
masochistic Mazie 
very nearly crazy 
almost 
very nearly 
quite 
insane 
scratched her pretty asshole 
over broken glass 
coal 
einders 
Joy 
Sex 
Pain 
WASn’t she insane? 
2 
sadic Sam 
from Alabam 
didn’t give a 
good god damn a 
whoop in hell he 
had a girl her 
name was Nellie 
played French checkers 
on her belly 
pinched her buttocks 
made her cry he 
stuck his finger 
in her eye he 
bought a whip to 
whip his mammy 
people called him 
sadic Sammy 
he’s the sheik — of — Ahala — bam 
5 
fetichistic Fanny 
married Jack the Ripper 
MALCOLM COWLEY