Serge Lecomte

Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium in 1946. He came to the States where he spent his teens in South Philly and then Brooklyn. After graduating from Tilden H. S. he joined the Medical Corps in the Air Force. He earned an MA and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature with a minor in French Literature. He worked as a Green Beret language instructor at Fort Bragg, NC from 1975-78. In 1988 he received a B.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Spanish Literature. He worked as a language teacher at the University of Alaska (1978-1997). He worked as a house builder, pipe-fitter, orderly in a hospital, gardener, landscaper, driller for an assaying company, bartender and painter.

Naked Lunch

Art

Engorged

Poetry

Tart orange juice dribbles down,
it slips between my open lips
searching for a place to rest
between coffee and toothpaste.

Such cursive undulation
of damp drops are impeded
by a sleeve, where wandering thought
of prosciutto forms its nest.

Mellifluous screams / defiant
jazz tickles ear folds with hunger –
hunger. Wild carrots, curling
parsley, honey’s sweet sting,

each flirtation the mouth tastes
ripe and rotten, mental collapse,
crude like sprouting potatoes.
I tuck a napkin under my thigh.

Hunger, my melted will, my aching
agony erupts, help me –  help wipe
my mouth, my tongue, my snot, and 
tears. I find no rest in this place.