I lovingly dote
with such gooey tenderness:
you, nauseated.
Weakness. Quaking weakness.
I shudder and shake and tremble
with weakness.
All my bluster and bravado is gone-
is in fact a shadow of this
weakness.
All my life is an effect of this weakness-
what have I been trying to prove?
My every action-to defy it.
My every thought-to deny it.
My every feeling-to decry it.
I am helpless like a newborn.
Your message did not
reach some or all of the intended
recip'ients.
I make myself juice.
The same company what built
my juicer built tanks.
The principle of
parsimony is simple:
Reduce to Essence.
What matter laws when
my responsibility
is my own affair?
I'm hammering on something.
It's tough, and won't give-the
hammer bounces off it.
I try to get my fingers in a crack,
under an edge, to pry it up.
My fingertips sting and prickle.
My nails bend back.
I try to get my canines on it,
to scrape it, to tear it open with
my teeth.
I cry out in exasperation and
throw it to the ground.
And again.
And again.
This damn thing-
I'll never get it right.
crawl stroke
back stroke
flat broke
thick smoke
diversion
perversion
subversion
reversion
go back
cough, hack
rat a tat
light snack
sandwich
bandwidth
transcript
uplift
contact
contract
cataract
blow-back
fallout
small trout
big lout
hot pout
sexy
flexy
mexy
messy
sloppy
choppy
gloppy
floppy
diskette
rockette
two step
set list
man bits
rickets
scurvy
swervy
nervy
hang on
powerslide
drift
grift
hissed
Alger
Horatio
Benvolio
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Fire burn
eternal
damnation
brimstone
sulfur
succor
bluster
cast out
outcast
first/last
dead past
fallen
crawlin'
limpin'
walkin'
balkin'
first sin
blaspheme
callout
prideful
snideful
d'rideful
dreadful
penny
headfull
lemme
get this out
before it vanishes forever.
We seek to obliterate the enemy.
He is evil, and his philosophy is twisted and wrong.
He would enslave the world, given the chance.
So bring to bear men and machines to grind and crush.
Riddle him with holes and burn him with fire.
Run him down and force him down and stomp
him out like a low fire.
Poison his corpse so not even the earth
will reclaim him.
May he be remembered for-nevermore.
And may we continue, and thrive and flourish in
righteousness; and may our children grow
up innocent and strong, never having to
know at what price their future was bought. Amen.
I walked into the Sun.
The skin of my face slowly thawed
and began to swim with warmth and
life. My chest swelled as my legs worked.
I walked into the Sun.
And my every trouble fell by the way
behind me. Goodness beckoned.
I walked into the Sun.
My lips parched and my eyes
ran. I squinted and wrinkled my
nose at the smell of scorch.
When you walk into the Sun,
you are consumed by the fire-
But what do you become?
I yelled to God
my voice comes out like thunder
screaming, saying,
I have the right to be, to exist, to express
I yell to you, I am angry
I am not angry at you, I am angry
against my own lies
I have been lying to myself
I have lied that I have not lied
Oh!, I hear the truth now
I'm resting in it
I am in peace
Now, here I feel the intensity of your love
Power that destroys the veils of separation
Oh! My lover! I never thought I'd get home fighting
By it, I learnt to love
Now, I flow like a river
and roar like a lion
I am soft as a baby
and sharp as a warrior
Thank you, God
Panting, I dodge trees.
My legs carry me over uneven terrain and
branches whip my face.
I carom around corners gripping
the slender trunks.
Where am I: Who Cares?
Where am I going: Forward.
-Exultation-
Margaritaville
plays wherever I go.
"What's it mean?" I wonder.
Green rolling hues [born of animal, vegetable, mineral labors]
light blue ether, soft.
The air weighs down with moisture lifting bouquets of earth.
Time fills with growth, sucking solutes; sustenance.
My breath is full, my speech is even.
Time is.
The sun beats. The rain pours.
Movement germinates within; into Earth, up to sky.
Fullness inside and fullness out.
Plowing, sowing, cultivating, reaping.
Sure, we can be friends:
Just so long as you know,
I've got a knife to your throat.
