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Arranging my papers
My small, dainty writing table Knee-height to one five eight. Facade consistent of flaking paint Pained wrist impressions, coffee stains Fingerprint smudges as one finds writ upon the panes of a caged gazer. Adopting strains with ridiculous names to see whether I can coax this Hopeless brain to produce more than stick figures. Out, coatless…
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Starclotted
The scree of a glee’d penis, the spattered spotty stars seemed Red as a snotty, grotty new skater’s knee The easily-seen desire-seeder Venus poem revealing. Adrenal Mars like a fat wasp wallop-burst upon an offturned LG screen. Approbations, elations, daily paintings Deprivations, rages, railings, weak sadness, half of madness. Just because something fell into one’s…
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Sleepasker
After chain blazing shamelessly My unpitied, unpropitiated head lays Dreamscapes egg laden and hex-scathed Of begging bowls, of negative spaces, of taking oaths Of sewn oats, of sold dope, of frailty, of granges, of grey areas, changes. Mortal-folded clothes angel-molded going mouldy in the only stow Maybe this grape haze ganj has me going scatty,…
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Unsaid Unspread
No hatchlings No champions Fenceless. Senseless following of fashion Closely tailgating evilly-promulgated passions. Hailing as great one’s own dispatches As creations, nay, manifestations Of an able creator! These unample, puny scratchings Less than a handful Hardly scratch the surface Of the vast surplus I wouldst but durst not commune.
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Watched assassination
Voidlamp in hand, asp in lap The lucent crab’s jewelled clasps fasten To the battle cloak running down his master’s back. My avoidant candle yet withstands. A capful of borrowed coins, and the poise of a cat On cloud-cottoned towertops, the clogged corridors The clotted, the discerner watched me As Turner might have watched a…