Saturday, January 26, 2013

Bruised and the Abuser


I carved your name
On my fingertips
So I could feel you
With every touch
Lost my hearing
To the sound of your song
So every kind word
Or harsh accusation
Buzzes with the last breath
Of your goodbyes
Burnt my tongue on your
Passionless kisses
So every reply
Is dulled with
Begging
I ran
One thousand miles
To reach 
A bed of coals
And sinking sand
(I’d run again)

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

teuquob tneloiv

violent bouquet
—more thorns than roses

dissonance by degrees
needles in the knees
facsimiles

time exchanged for glances
over shoulders
schizoid romance

tactile hallucinations of
optimistic numbing agent

over-the-counter
exit signs
(neon medication)

#calcificationbynumbers

over familiar landscapes
worn souls tread
heartbeats of the damned

engendered hegemony
socio-economic pantheism

*fragility





Saturday, January 12, 2013

Shrapnel


Who gave you permission
To carve your shape out of me
Your silent dancing shadows upon my cavern walls
In the aching institution
I am only wearing grey
Because you left me alone
And this is who I am

Who gave you the key
To my long lost locked cupboard door
Echoing along the hall are songs that we once knew
Under aging, withered cedars
I will write your name for hours
Because you forgot to call
And this is who I am

Who gave you a veto
Over this puppet soul’s new strings
As I illustrate my point with a blunted hunting knife
Upon the barren, salted shore
I collapsed my last good lung
Because you were my true love
And this is who I am

Who gave you my choir
And bled their corpses dry
Skeleton songs remain for the solemn man
Without a course to set my sail
I will dive till I am crushed
Because you held all my air
And this is who I am


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Blasphemy

You can burn the world down.
You can cure or cause any disease.
What do you want from me?

You can love us all.
Like a mighty wind or a subtle breeze.
Do you love me?

I was a child in your temples,
Was an infant in your church;
They said you wanted to know me deeply
To free my heart from hurt,
But you've made it worse

Your book is full of promise.
Your book is full of lies,
While theologians compromise.

You condemn our questions,
But you won't say hello
As far as I can know.

I can hear your children crying,
Bleeding out in the dirt;
We only ever wanted to touch you, to know you,
To be free from this hurt,
But you've made it worse.

You've made it worse.

They taught me that you died
To free us from your curse.
They tell me you're alive and well somewhere
As if it shouldn't hurt,
But you've made it worse.

You make it worse.

Your silence makes it worse.

Your judgment makes it worse.

Your people make it worse.

I make it worse.

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