Will my silence be enough To let you know I am no more Will you shake your head and smile And be as you were before Will it be my laughter that you remember Decades later on a summer noon Will you ask why I never came back Or lament why I returned so soon Will my face be what you seek When thinking of things past Will you forget the first day we met Was the day that we met last Will these hands that once were mine Remain forever alone in memory Will you extend yours just to share Their shadow so I could be We Will my words ever be able to describe This ache that now I feel Will you break my heart each time You want your own to heal…
Naked pictures painted on the world map, a global ache this systematic subjugation, arraigned with signatures and rubber stamps and blue and black ink with red smeared hands from…
Ants committing suicide for sugar cubes, mountains sundered for a grain of sand, weighing a ton by common belief of a wishful world running in a race without an end around a toilet flush I hear music in the smoking firmament, the guttural snort and fart of the engine like Mozart’s Requiem for Modern Times; graveyards filled with scraps, dusty medals pinned upon pigeon chests, chest with springs and cogs inside, all mechanisms of a meager mind,
Breathed upon by gunpowder gods never crucified, but kept alive, unchained unlike Prometheus or castrated unlike Cronus, with 9mm eyes watching over the supposed universe, Lives televised, a miniscule mime renting life per hour, human carcass threaded, talking puppets mimicking everyday shambles with double exclamation and undying opinions; graffiti upon bathroom walls, the enlightenment of our age; our Bible, our Koran, our Commandments, our Veda,
An ocean of umbilical madness, Medusas of mind, writhing in the depths of drowned time, left helpless at the bottom, garbage cans, lobster traps, Ahab’s ambition, little mermaid’s fin, all part of the abyss, woven tales of Atlantis
Beggars upon sidewalk, watching the neon lights blink at the mannequins dressed and fed better than them, breathing in glass case while the Caesar supine on steps as flat piece of bread looks on: Et tu, Et tu, until a coin clatters in the bowl and Rome falls, democracy dissolved under the acid rain of paint thinner,
Red sky running, blind horse racing against the rider till the tollbooth where hands on hips the old man walks the zebra crossing, unmindful of the airplanes lined at the red light, waiting one and all to fly away, without passengers or Blackbox, to a land where runways end
Phantoms fasting upon a fingernail, the sound of anarchy, electric guitar with strings of lightning, rainbow flooding the floor, and the people waving, a mingled marsh undecipherable, a canvas coated with paint, avant-garde asylum overflowing with stone heads
Rows of velvet cushion upon glass, red carpet laid upon mud, hyenas laughing in the hallway in high heels and mothball tuxedos from pawn shop, faceless fornication behind the screen, lips locked together in war, breathes dying with alcohol,
And outside the Ghost of Christmas Past selling mint in the rain, poets pass him and politicians, all made of papers full of question marks and Venn diagram that depicts everything said and done, the saying it has the bigger circle and the deeds it had none,
The Van Gogh World waking, rivers of gas flowing under matchstick houses waiting for madmen, toothpick buildings dancing for children playing whack-a-mole, Las Vegas without lights like teeth of a key; all cards of the fleeting reality playing pinochle with constant uncertainty,
Dismal days these, age of enlightenment, recoilless Renaissance, people paying people to understand people paying people, round around the circumference of Drachma with Copernicus we fly, we fly, taking one day kryptonian crash course, and pretend to die with cries towards the sky; O father thou art in heaven, look down now and weep, for seven days you worked, and on the eighth it all went to dust, you knew it and yet you left it so, now weeds gather in your garden, and even Lucifer stays away and pray free from this drama; Hare Rama, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Rama
Do not let me die
In a hall with white walls
Near windows overlooking
The world’s asylum
Filled with paper praying people
Watering themselves
Towards an early spring
There
Upon the white winter brow
Of an aged world
I stand, like a cliff
A black wound, unstitched,
Filed with crowfoot and claws,
Where my face without flesh
Lingers in iodine
So that under one pain I could forget
The origin of another
You poise by the preface, Starlike; extravagant, Tilting waist, Measuring love of men, Who dipped in your fragrance, Sway like honey heavy flowers, Drunk against sunlight, Leaping emerald across boroughs, Spilled with spring.
Lilac dreams, enchanting, You wave away tapered, transient, All lifelike features, that taste of earthly leisure, Absent. For you dream of Angels, Angular symposium of embroidered life, And divine imitation, Though you know it not. For far too pleasure shatter beneath your feet, And the sound, what feels like cloudburst to us, To you is but a gust of wind that lifts, The violet hem of your dress.
Yet one day, Your face shall melt, Into a weed filled pool, With a weeping fountain in the middle, For all too pass by and forget, Even when the blue rain, would clasp, And hold you, immortal, No nymph nor Naiad, Or man, mermaid, Shall know your depths, ever.
But every other night, When solace would have left you speechless, And the silence; a silver mirror, A shadow shall shape in your womb, Desirous, delicate, Cascading down, sweet and sour, Like a citrus kiss of longing, And you will be alone, no longer, But one with the moon, Dancing on his tunes, In trance like ripples.
Do not let me die
THE HUMAN ANVIL 