Saturday, January 9, 2016

(There’s a type of trail, to echo this soul, as violet as magenta.)

You scribbled a fantasy—for strong the currents—to rescue passion.
I sat for storms, the loins for fevers,
stationed aside madness.     There’s wretched bliss, for dungeon cries, to feel familiar. There’s sabotage—this rain, a fleet of young addicts.     You scribbled a fantasy—for earth is rawness—to issue life.     Its freshet affection, for short the thrill
—steeped in depression.     Its days of war,
searching mental pictures, to see your image: the anger of winning, the shame of losing, the dreams of the first century;
where sparkles flicker, to endure warm chills, living through purgatory.      We scribbled a fantasy, headed to Catalina,
sprinting with a runny soul; for thrills are light, to be that moment, where most are normal. It’s close to life, a minor threshold, for the unexposed; but some are flooded, a higher threshold, ever to leap; in which are woes, a fleet of casualties,
raging through psyches.     There’s more adrenaline—an ever to need, as calm as monks; for seas of waves, for higher provocation, for more than chocolate almonds.     I
fly the wine, the wings of insight, to settle at a five; where this is rain,
the skin to rash—scratching at eczema; for nerves are thin, to grin
through
shyness, a plug filled with wires.    

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