Thursday, March 2, 2023

The Soul Is Unsatisfied

 

I feel composed, awful, bouncing inside—lethal fumes, listening to sequences, souls seeking solace in hallucination. Clever chaos, careful unforgiveness, begging repentance, a rabid heart, an indifferent fierceness—never to un-witness sights, enough to die luxuries, with time showing out. I need profanity, I plan excellence, like piles of numbness—those years, mystic fire, filmed in deliverance: big breasted beliefs, gregarious gangly gears, gifts in scripture, toxic, undisclosed, men adore her filthy truths. I was needing, kneading, laughing, near tipsy, the moon bore witness, the wickedness knew mercy, the ache was bleeding. Like always watched. Like lows aren’t enough. A man becomes of import. Better to blend, to know simplicity, the grandness will bleed pains.      

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...