Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Funeral Persistence

 

I have a scream in a bucket, was vomiting all-night, was sick with the industry.

 

genetic memories, in the trenches, open it like Jesus, the third-eye deluxe.

 

pinched those sights, tortured those grays, just putting it together—we must ask of our importance. the forbidden love, the big muscle mind, the chaotic spell, the woman would hate his guts. he was sick, he needed her thrust, her diamond, her mystique.

 

like mobile time, the helicopter headed to Philadelphia, from there to Vegas, from Vegas to California. loved her so much, couldn’t have her, or having was to feign its persistence. it’s just a smile. it’s just hips. it’s just sexual—as it destroys the mind.

 

removable walls. falling frenzies. borderline high waves. the beauty was brilliant, radiant, rare, too much to sustain.

 

a space inside, keeping the kilometer mind, asking one clear question: When can we depend on it?

 

the electric wire, the trenches, the space inside, the feeling inside, dripping wisdom. as an immortal creature—so sensitive—if a soul goes through hell, How long should he repent—before mercy ensues?

 

as living souls, more unsaid than mentioned, faces and eyes, minds on pavement, K-9s running with messages.

 

the calamity is the unrest—they know the situation, the ghosts … but I haven’t done much, aside for hearing my community, figuring her intention, where sacrifice means nothing in the face of research. the hit squad, the mathematics, the dialogue journey—if they heard it—we’d know the dozen pawns! oh I get to feeling it deeper. granny would say things, I would listen, momma would refute her words – now I see things, I know things, God trained her.

Sonnet IV

    If I was Pablo in a feeling, I would assert love, I would cry fever—one begonia, three dreams.  If I was Neruda in my emotion, I would e...