Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Where Were The Elves?

 

the keynote is suffering so mannish so Armenian at epitome like falling. 20 pieces of silver for a man’s honor, repenting, begging to redeem self. at ideal love, at ideal sorrow, at ideal seduction.

 

some women dance like science, they perfect identity, they give a man his courage—a deaf fool for her, a maniac running into her, so psychopathic so distant—she’d never fallen in love.

 

a punctured vein        a lost lung        an artery in your eyes.

 

I met a woman, I’ll keep it private, but damn the way gods debate sanity. to burnish emotion so raw how we die if only this than that.

 

give me form. let me breathe. come to me with your career. Fret this fretting day!

 

I need final closure like guts hanging so thawed she got in.

 

never to examine us. never to sing us. like academia is personal-impersonal.

 

I was gunning in the gutter lane, I was shocked at sights, to handle from a sunroof. those eyes I saw, her essence cringing, at my neck a piece as it screams.

 

wounds are knitting me, changing my perspective—I need to believe it will occur. so much value. so empty. never a reflection of what I die for; much evidence many cries in an afflatus.

 

has it come to you—a need for more—as something proving/preventing rest? a paradox as it flames so cursed it feels normal, as giving a child death by the gates.

 

you make us speechless. you look terrific. you have singular plurality on the brains.

 

so unfeatured so unraveled, how do we get to Penelope? some dream, I know my reasons, it’s a closed refrigerator.

 

so much another league, too much a surprise, a man undresses his philosophy. strong as a soldier, cleared for war, tugging at a love letter.  

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