Saturday, April 05, 2025

A searing white hot flame
from the grave, accompanied by money.
You're selling yourself to yourself,
and even you aren't buying it.
The mirror is a shit stain
glimmering in the underwear
of your robotic God,
where you dwell in metallic folds
with your hologram friends.

In the real world there's nothing left.
No dream of reality to return to.
Your box is fucked, you built it.
Climb into it anyway and begin
the sleep of death.
Let the fronds of mutated plants
poke at you on the way in.
From the world of disease
you left behind, from a
suicide bomb of raunchy exuberance.
It's hard to talk when your whole body is
filled with liquid shit.  Fucking drown in it.

Friday, April 04, 2025

SKOMOROKH

I walked into a timeless landscape
looking for drugs.
I'll flip onstage all night
to keep the light coming
out of my ribcage.
I'll eat coins
and turn them into flowers.
People gather like fences of meat
to watch me prancing.
Strings pop in the fancy abattoir.

The gap between me and the audience
is a moat full of guts.
Rainbows attach the edges
through a ceiling of stained glass.
Doorways open to blank space
in the upper corners.
My blood is laughing
at its cage of shit
the basement floor reverberates
with the root of many feeding engines
and the dragon is a plastic tool.

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Fierce letters printed on wilting skin,
a glaze of blood to polish timber
and take down the skies,
hands clasped on the disc
of an airport dining table,
zones of ordered paint
rushing sentient space,
I can't talk, I must stare
into the voidless yawn that crackles,
I must know its unforced embrace
where the parched ground heals
and wounds with wetness,

bridges cross the chasm's
multicolored light,
my delicious torment redeems
the tragedy of my elders,
I see wings in shit, the corpus
emblazoned with frauds
that have become genetic,
the stones go quiet
in their slow decay,

the water wades into me,
I am a sea invaded
by this unwelcome body,

the eye is all, the poles of vision
are making shapes from a hell
of elaborate echoes,

the sun cools on waning rye

my wallet is a folded leaf
that holds a supernatural seal,
the gash of a gone root waits
my feet are numb to finding
the sleep of mercy ends in ecstatic birth.

Tuesday, April 01, 2025

QUIXOTIC

All my life I'll just be a fool.
I'll fuck it up, probably on purpose.
Murders will happen because of me
but I'll never be there.  This
is the paranoid eye that searches
only for a certain frog.
This is our earthly home,
that leaks and screams.
I am absent from the rituals
of birth and death, my attention
is elsewhere.  The obsessive
carving of reality must take place.
The gift I don't deserve
must be shredded into
shimmering fragments.

Man must survive on the salt
of dead ideas.  This skin
is a kind of armor I put on,
and it doesn't work.
This cactus tongue
is milky as a neon pen.
The frame falls off
from the jagged landscape.

I am aligned with the dying god,
with the ones of this world.
There is no other seeking.
Luminescent curlicues unfurl
on a cold horizon.
They are not straight, they tremble
like frozen lashes.
The way the blankets heave,
the dome of space has opened up,
a voice without language is calling,
calling.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Tentacles of ephemeral fluff
retreating from the light of hate
shores of naked angels on plastic sand
shadows loving under tentscapes
of plaster branches
wasp wings moving over marble sheen

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Vines from death
reaching over abandoned racetracks
flowers of a raging bulb
that knows the grip of soil

worms flicking the beginning
of angel wings in blood gravy
long tubes of light that linger
in dead halls

a walking spine
that flounders like a sleeping dancer
the stench of millennia
all gone from a long bone bridge

the flanks of passing ships
alive with tangled circuits
their cycles winding closer
to the sanctum of the pilot clown

one pyramid of clear glass
under fiber optic oceans
bioluminescence simulated
by a dragging hand

Friday, March 28, 2025

The reins of spirit snapping
in the furrows of galactic night
where orbs are born from burning mercy
rails of a vaporous train
rivers of electric mud
scorched thorns in arabesque of longing
smashed maps of many lamps
ghosts limping over dream-born mattresses
chains leaking from a ruptured iron cloud
that the seamstress of these wastes allowed.