Monday, August 9, 2021

Graves & Mirrors

 

when I pass out, let it be gentle, let me passby in a Passion dream. so cultic so glossed so retyped—never heard him, I knew his countenance, he died weeks later. many rolled harder, emphatic with ghosts, it was in his walk. we cross chalk, praise outlines, place flowers with candles. I choke up. I see faces. I remember foul ass mud. I hit a drank, begin a tear, I sit to paint rain.

 

he was different he was pain, unlike others. he carried it. he shared it. he destroyed it. I wonder while falling, bleeding like a vision. softer souls, sympathetic eyes a friend in you.

 

nights moving deep in motion a locomotive living silence. he turned up. I saw a demon. I stood firm. we locked arms. I couldn’t decipher. He teaches my hands to war.

 

can she smile again? if we die again? it’s been distance again.

 

he was changing, robbing again, nutty, nutting out, on anything. they crept, lost mercy, filled his body.

 

burn this carcass. make it ashes. give them to greatgrandchildren.

 

I’m isolating, watching rules, careful to show respect. it kills it aches many love the future. I look back, I pass a park, I see demons.

 

his friend shifted coins. as initiation he turned treason—killing his street friend. we felt shocked. I closed my mouth. it was years carrying spirits.

 

it gets to me a bad ass woman like how in hell we win? eyes on pavements. ears to doorsills. lips to clarinets. I lost respect. no one knew it. it was crazy. anything, everything, it never changes its maps. how was it? it was pain. we climb mountains, graffiti caves, fire is a metaphor. last to follow, first to walk backwards, I need analyze each grave.        

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