Friday, October 18, 2019
Combustion And Reconstruction
I have a stalker
Her name is death
She penetrates the outskirt
Of my being
in a dainty way
I’d love to do nice things
For her
But then I awake
To realize she is already dead
And full of nothing
But lies, deceit,
Rows upon Rows
of
Endless aging
And
decomposed catacombs
Don’t listen to her
She has a husband in Hades
His name is Napoleon
With a Napoleon Complex
Down Upon
rows upon rows
Of
descending
Ancient catacombs.
(A lot of rich people down
In the pit of the earth)
Where forlorn
Mansions of Hades
Reside,
Combustion
And reconstruction is essential,
Circumambulating the
The futile wreckage
Which preceded Dante
In his misplaced terrestrial wisdom
PS.
Don’t worry
I see my therapist today,
Selah
what I find in the daytime
what I find in the daytime
you can find anything in a city park
in the daytime
when the
abysmal Latino youngsters kick around
soda pop cans next to a city park trashcan
this trashcan is an emasculated
trashcan
the chains wrought
round the metal shaft
speak voluminous
pathos of kinship
but don't fuck my niece
anywhere in the nighttime
this is what I find
about a city park in the daytime
4 PM is good for cocktails
if you're an alcoholic
in the daytime
and the nighttime
this is what I find
if I had one wish
I'd piss on the sun
in the daytime
this is what I find
in the
nighttime
the angel of death frequents my apartment
this is what I find
in the nighttime
Dreaming,
I hear
her voice calling my
name in the daytime
this is what I find
that
she is pretty
and
she wants to fuck me
in the nightime
this is what I find
but then,
I can't wake up to go
to school in the morning
to make friends with
sedimentary Fred and
the Fossil Fuel Companions
in the daytime
this is what I find
I'm a ghost in the nighttime
pouring old sentiments
into elementary Keith's
bitters, and
the
daytime Jews
are just for hangovers
in the nighttime
this is what I find
that,
even the devils gets lonely
in the night time
this is what I find
when I was a child
in the nightime
I would wonder,
do aliens make dumb statues of themselves too
and then
bow down to them
like fools?
in the daytime
of my youth this is
what I would find
that
humans are dumb
in the day time and
the nighttime
this is what I
found
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The Universe Running Downward (from a bridge at 4 AM in the Winter)
The Universe Running Downward
(from a bridge at 4 AM in the Winter)
Bearing witness to immutable tragedies
We've seen Sanskrit engraved upon ancient pyramid walls
Biorhythms of baroque intensity
coruscating within molecules of our small intestines
as we try to sleep
only this
is not a dream but an
artificial (humanity),
terrestrial firmament of light and lies,
what I'm trying to say is
I know because
1) I've stood from a bridge peering downward
at 4 am towards the sea,
vicariously overlooking the tragedy of my youth
The sea remained immutable to the tragedies
peering downward at 4 AM,
our past sorrows perpetuate
the immutable sea of human desire.
I loved a woman
I never loved a woman
Looking outward over the city lights
(in all their complexity)
at 4 am in the wintertime,
I saw an indecisive seagull towering over the sea,
indifferently wavering,
I was that seagull once
perennially oscillating,
towering,
condescending my soul to the sea
ambiguous
people and traffic lights
wrought my nerves to the brink
of oblivion
if I let them, while
working an abysmal
graveyard shift
enduring lies and
deceit, preoccupying my time, the
pride of life reverberated within the
ancient nocturnal city
at 4 AM coming down
from methamphetamine
watching Forensic Files
under the city lights,
I saw nothing once and
bared false witness to the
nothing twice
serving
demonic childhood ideals of
falsehood and avarice,
these Ancient misunderstood
women
permeate my subconscious
while I'm trying to sleep at 4 AM
under the sea of the nocturnal city lights,
closer and older now,
the universe running downward
upon a
rowhome in South Philadelphia
toward the rural city outskirt
the sea of nocturnal city lights,
remain immutable at 4 AM in the winter.
see me in my bedroom then
while I was trying to sleep.
shouting upward from tenement dooryards to a 2nd story window
Failing to sleep during the day,
because the ancient women will find me dreaming and
castrate my fears
with their primordial shears of innocence
drenched
with blood
the swaddling cloth embracing
urban sink faucets
I've pondered these faucets from
other peoples sofas in the city
awaking to daily news of deaths and overdoses,
pocketchange tsunamis
hidden within
the inverted gaudy loveseat
of human time,
is a lie but real
at the same time
I used to drink red wine in the wintertime by myself
cursing the ancient women,
they only wanted me to view myself
as they did,
to be like-minded
only
I do not love them
nor want to be like-minded
at 4AM
gazing downward
over nocturnal city lights
fabricating the immutable tragedy
of time
as it bashes our skulls inward,
our spirits outward
toward the immutable sea of penitence
I was never above the sea,
I only thought I was
that is what the ancient women were trying to tell me.
Selah
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