Sunday, June 28, 2020

Often Mistaken Love


I die harder or rewrapped such Styrofoam. I broach love, its topic, its spice, chitlins or drug store. I never fathomed the team as unseen into a cup—halfway full! I needed films or eyes or depth a screw as it moves. so unfastened, so crooked, raking into a goddess—so cursed so enlove while so misbelieved. it seasons well. it manifests good energy. it’s loyal to anything but its reflection. I used to phantom it, or a steak such silence, while immersed in fury or shame. I loved like winning. I felt good for losing. but never an ache so pure it abandons its miracles. so, tell me about love. tell me how it feels terrific. or tell me truth, it’s hard, but it breeds. so close it’s awkward. so ridiculous it’s fun. or making passion with room to laugh or fly. —for it was niceness, it was haven, it was hell’s wrath. a part for giggling, a piece for shattering, a part for duplicity. (I see a woman or a dear fatality or too perfect—it must be his mind; a problem asking questions, a child looking for longevity, or affected for ruined pleading for ecstasy.) a mountain for tablets a pen for ink a paper for screams; a diary in you, a memoir in us, while so close it feels good to be at a distance. I read as I hawked such rare concentration while I composed: a man in a sewer, a feline in a gutter, while we once worshiped our ghetto. (so lonely at seconds or too proud to speak or too cursed to pretend: a running fever a scattered dream while public life becomes pure embarrassment: those days so recluse or odd habits while I have a hard time figuring you out. it might be glorious there, it might feel good there, but it must feel enigmatic there.)  

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