Sunday, December 19, 2021

Can’t Unlock The Beast

 

 

in the melody of trauma, moving with grapes, refused by normality—possessed by obsession, regressing inside, holding a countenance in turmoil. the wave of the soul, a hello in pain, laughing at nonsense.

we left the wake acting like apes refurbished in the liquor. put in an ambulance, wounded in tears, facing the inner mansion. in love with pavement, needing concrete, infatuated with abstracts. those eyes screaming at me.

by a clock in essence, a teapot façade, used to wake up feeling wicked—needing understanding, waxing in troubles, through bars, through rooms, it wasn’t easy in boxes. many would capitalize, I’m just needing rain, where life continues, wrestling screams, eating demons, a pomegranate becomes wines or as monsters. mother with father, street doctrine, nothing would be closer than the death it became.

grassy glass, gassy angst, albums blowing wide open; terrified souls, still moving in traffic, antsy, edgy, alert, drugged out.

many unbolt. many chunked-out. many more holding until bitter death. black men trying harder, living freer, like illegal is sanctified. padlock dying. stolen minerals. loving one too naïve to understand her consequences—

walking faster. they say something evil: “A knife is closer.”

a margin mulatto, a major problem, blessed in patience, can’t reveal the realness of the beast.     

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