One More Song for the OpressedOne more time, the chestnut leaves with dead dry throatsfall with a silent crash as the spider spins millions dead.And no one hears the song of dust when the dot com calls;Writhing suicide girls and burning boys.One more time, he presses his thumbagainst the slick thick back of the luminous beatleand it's legs spread out like grasping fingers on the glass,and his hands pull his hair down in a frown because lifeis that fragile, but the beatle smiles because the meekshall inherit the earth.
Planting a Daisy in the groundUnder the coma of this sky I am fraught with cloudsBeneath the needlework of this ground I am exhausted by the stitch of groaning rootsBetween the echo of every footfall I compose passionWith notes that crawl like black ants across the skin.Not the weed that sneaks like a finger through the black dustNot the pedals closed like a fist around their colors in the darkNot the cold in my cracked dirt caked handsCould stop me from digging this holeSo something around here can be beautiful.Anonymously pinned under 2 a.m. stars.The gray dirt rolling off my knees.
When you are OldWhen you are oldOn those not so bright December evenings,Setting your sad sunset Against Gods black and blue vanityDo not forgetthose late nights, brooding,Standing, with our stiff legsTouching finding madness in The method of red and wine and stars.Burning Love's sad book without a look back...at the ashes on our faces.Tore another page into the fire, Another page into the fire,And there was Ash in your hair and in my hair and I kissed you then,Another page into the fire.
Death Pop is the new JazzI Walked in the gutter I Was awake without timeThe earthworms were strangling In an afternoon gone.I was acutely awareThere was one crushed, curledNext to a snowdrop, He and I caught, In the late hate kaleidoscope..I poke through please and please and please The catastrophic curve of your mouth is no ordinary O.I set it off like uncaged spidersClicking Awake Walking across paved Omen or age, No your mouth is no ordinary O.I swore to violence then as I lifted my lips again in the afternoon cold, Strode home alone picking steps between cracks and cones And thinking thoughts old fashion IWove curses in a wicked
Pure Mourning.I remember Mays green breezesand looking into eyes my godso beautiful they made the sky a darkershade of rain.The days we spent under the clouds' gray mouth, and the times by the stream spent dreaming.dreaming.There's still a vase on your kitchen tablea perfect white plastic orchid that you used to saywould never die or wilt or rot or fall apart.But I'm standing in your shower nowfeeling freezing water flowing overmy ruined head. Remembering that thereis a plastic orchidthat wont die or wilt or rot or fall apartbeside the empty chair you left behind.The cold wind still blows through an open window.
CloudsLaying on my back watching the clouds roam over skyI can see their arms, small noses, gentile hands.They are a herd, the white clouds, none are left behind.Laying on my back feeling the fall and rise of the windLike a steel violin, its coldest notes pierce my palmsAnd I sink as my head swims like kicked up dust.Laying on my back hearing my escaping breath,Watching clouds roll over the sky, I'm wondering,Where I'm going, who I'm fooling, Why even try?Staring at the tips of my scuffed brown shoes,blinking the raindrops from my eyes.
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keep eating your hearts i find it
enticing.
i remember
and i shall have yours soon enough.
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depressing things make me happy.
and you are beautiful.
perhaps that's why the same news is on eight different channels.
But mine are brown.
Nice picture.