Sunday, January 23, 2022

The Voicebox is Silent

 

a dynasty was born, it came with feathers, wings, glory.

 

many are washing tar away.

 

faces are screaming. brains are waffling. seconds build insecurities.

 

most eat rubble, fretting the longer lines, so much a well inside.

 

the shadow wailing, so dear to livid, an attack on politics.

 

mental scales, legendary Jerusalem, crucifixion Africa.

 

to laugh insanely, skills lost, skills found, voiceprints, gin and tonic.

 

toenail to sulfur, palms to prayer, deaths to resurrections.

 

effervescent pills, down south pills, evenness as a social pill; to die at life, much to judgements, chasing skies, as if substance.

 

the faceless woman, in a faceless picture, winning as a faceless gem.

 

common pigeons, they might speak or write fire, but talent remains invisible—it is more about the dreaded word, “networking”—

 

—to cut with curses, divorced from existence, a mere sparrow made immortal—

 

deep delusion, muddy ashes, sentiments dripping mucus.

 

russet wines, knitting ambition, the dying nemesia.

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