New York Post:
Secret erotic poetry of Calif. gov candidate Eric Swalwell revealed: ‘Flurry of limbs and nails’By Ariel Zilber
Published Feb. 16, 2026, 2:22 p.m. ET
California gubernatorial hopeful Eric Swalwell once penned a graphic, sex-charged college poem boasting of lovers “kissing till veins imploded and exploded” — with “blood rolled down our chins,” according to a report.
The Democrat, now running for governor, wrote the eyebrow-raising piece when he was a 19-year-old student enrolled at Campbell University, where he contributed to the literary magazine “The Lyricist” and also penned a column for the student newspaper, according to Daily Mail.
The poem, titled “Hungover From Burgundy,” describes two partners meeting atop a hotel before having “formless and magnificent” sex in a “flurry of limbs and nails,” with the narrator appearing to relish being bitten. ...
A spokesman brushed off the decades-old writing as youthful embarrassment in a statement to the Daily Mail, joking: “If you think Eric’s poetry at 18 was bad, you should see his diary entries from when he was 12.” ...
What he does and says at age 45 is bad enough, thanks.
