Monday, June 11, 2018

Swan Tears


I sit in shirt and tie, this long adventure, this chaotic Ghost: those floor-beds, this riverbank, this flood of mesmerizing diamonds: this feud this mother, this feud in fathers, this rift as sinking our guts: as blackened in blues, or flowing catastrophes, this immortalized mystic-fury: this yogic enterprise, this gut leaking, this new found lump: our cries to pain, our levity with pain, or gravity seeping into pains: our casual Anthony, our rehearsed Cleopatra, or days to deaths secluded in valleys: those rosary passions, this heart as eyes, this soul as printed in gray grass: oh for deceased, or living this mount, to cuss with ease to flurry this fire: therewith, a curse, this addict fever, this alcoholic: if but to weekends, this glen in reservoirs, this mother as losing existence: our paranoid nights, this curtain as peeking, this dust as enflamed in nostrils: to sense something askew, while reading Glamour, while tending to feelings: this lost lottery, this ticket to silence, or essence to guts ruined for honesties: that man craving, this library embedded, while flipping for cursed this mystic obituary: to apply CoverGirl, to disdain planetaries, as pure apes forbidden this pleasurous nightmare: our cuts to graves, our plaques to visions, or this music framed in symbols: this solidarity, this poverty leprechaun, where beauty seeps into manipulation: this dying in you, this rabid sacrifice, this absorption rearing its young: our cabinet cries, our trinket tissues, this mobile sanctuary: if but to parishes, this vestibule of doors, to enter while worshiping Nihilism: this small vehicle, this leaky lake, our geese forbidding our destruction: as laughing forever, or mourning forever, to have that thought those rubric eyes: as Pantene cleansings, or Biorè tear-works, to encompass as deceased heart-eyes.  I adore an angel, I adore a mystic, and finding tenderness this yogi: while ruined for found, or found for ruined, to enjoy as dying this role as a blacksheep: those powdery antlers, this antic controversy, this woman so soothing it burns: our conditioner souls, this inner Neutrogena, or desperate this taste of acids: this swan dripping, this father leaking, this brook encompassing night-visions: to crave as dying, to live as remorse, where enough has banished its legacy.  We live this way, scratching unto blood, our scalps trickling into sentences: this Quixote curse, this florid friend, this resonance at midday: this thrust to hearts, this fire to brains, this daughter as livid this blessing: to muse with Divinity, or plague for Simone, while entrenched in marital vows: this lyric as demented, this daughter as deciphering, this phone as shutting silence: this revving Corvette, this model his soul, this tale for one damn near maniacal: to pray too much, where God is tired, to give for something against our harvests: this slaving Bugatti, this ancient engine, this auction for something human: our bleeding concaves, our inner moon-deaths, this sun as our poltergeist: to season earth, this inverted steak, while silenced by this incredible love: those rosy swans, this bleak reality, this penchant with souls feeling irregular: as Polo scents, or tadpole kings, to erupt with time cursing this immoral generation.  {I see eyes, I see vengeance, I see deliverance: this botanical garden, this Swedish wand, this 3D horizon: our pains as jewels, our pains as majesty, our joys as difficult to decipher: where mystics meow, and yogis trespass harmonies, while guts ruin catastrophes: this Vera Bradley, this artillery purse, this artery pleading to beg for difference: our powerful coupe, this cage breaking wings, to float upon a mortal feather: as men loathing, or women hating, while God made Her claim: at dark trepidation, or pigmented auxiliaries, or permanent tear mercenaries: to drift with sadness, to cuss with madness, or to lay pictures to roots: this photograph, as speaking its language, to relax while drenched in Herbal Essence: this deep disguise, this dying to live, this purpose as battle trainings: this power in clothes, this cloth as metaphoric, this likeness as cemented in thoughts; our love as rioting, this stranger saying hello, this father undergoing carnivals}!

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