Poppies

Poppies

It was the 60’s. It was Wisconsin. Or was it Idaho?

Small hands pruny with huckleberries. Walked along a trail by the fishing hole.

Always wanting to be alone, even at eight. But being alone,

that used to be an adventure that led to tasty morsels

Ripe and juicy like every new day

When did devouring time become so ugly and monotonous?

When did eating from the palm of nature become

Bleeding flower pods

With desperation and precision

Did you know that in between your untrained hand scrawling

your beautiful huckleberry day

And your shaking hands crawling up your arm for that warm feeling

In between that, you had a daughter? Had a son?

But. You always want to be alone

Rosa

Rosa

Corrosive pleasures

Test your mettle

Burning holes while pushing petals

Licking cocks with soft milk tongue

Sniffing powder from fresh guns

A life alive - a head in rush

You’re flush you’re flush you’re flush you’re flush

Then come the wisps

The slow decay

The bloom was loud

The burst ablaze

Now embers circle, rounding, grey

Your mouth tastes ash

Your magic fades

A hilt a jerk a crow a bell

muted cacophony - entropy’s spell

A dewy rose now pallor touched

Your mind is splayed

Honey, you’re fucked

In dreams you whirl you piss you play

With pretty green paper and smile grenades

Your teeth are bullets that kill

Yet never again can you swill

Like the lascivious glutton, queen of the block

You drank it all in

To spit back dainty drops

So carefully dribbling away cursed life

Craving a tornado

You must settle for lice

PPD / Macabre Affair

PPD / Macabre Affair

I am a salmon

Spawned and flitting

Pushing forward, decay spitting

Out behind the current present

Present current pulls death’s bidding

Knocking, knocking

Hear his knuckles?

Rattling happily as I buckle

Pounding, pounding

Heart and reaper

Become one; lock and keeper

I am a mantis

Who does not pray

Chomping hope of time away

Hungry, captive docile terror

Afraid of all that draws the day

Silken black holes flowing blindly

Shimmer nothing…

(the fate that binds me)

Break in this carcass, this fragile door

Leave me agape and terribly free

Relish our macabre love affair

Spurred on by youth and birth and life

Captivated by that which draws the knife

Desirous of the warrior soul laid worn and bare

Calling to us all whenever we care to hear. 

Refusees

Refusees

We said No,
they could be terrorists, there could be terror.
We said No,
it might be dangerous, there might be danger.
We said No,
they won't take care of us, we've got to take care of us.

We know you've been bombed.
We know you've been threatened.

But, your hope takes away a little peace of mind
Yeah, your hope takes away a tiny peace of mind
ALL your hope takes away a little peace of mind

We know you've been bombed.
We know you've been threatened.

Your father's gone
and your brother's missing
your daughter went away with that boy she was kissing

Every knock could be the knock that leaves you behind

But, your hope takes away a little peace of mind
Yeah, your hope takes away a tiny piece of our mind
Screw your hope, and let me give you a piece of my mind--
FUCK your hope.

New Parents

New Parents

Carefully, now

this little beast

can quickly get out of hand

He roams so freely

in your arms

only for a moment

For years you thought of him

in your head a phantasm gleam

proclaiming “I am here!”

Others were never so meticulous

shouting the life of it with boisterous abandon

letting theirs claw and scheme underfoot – 'fools', you thought

What of it now? It's all dice

in the end you were but an artifice

perfect malleable silicon

Life a colorful masquerade

that retrograde, hollows itself out

for future to fill

And all of this for precedence

for air to lust for the purpose of you?

Shout now, shout now

“you are nothing but a swirl of ink

dripped from a pen trying to write

in the ocean!”