How like an arrow she sings!

Deadly, shimmering, shaft

undulating and dancing.

Diana, the precision of your

precession, wandering yet

rhythmic, like the seasonal

migrations of game.

And the slaughter! Such

rich butchery-the night

air pungent with its

metallic tang. (Sticky fur)

 

And I the husband:

the earth is my garden

and the animals my children.

The wheeling of my crops

an elaborate clockworks.

My plans and recipes are

the result of long and careful

experiment and observation.

I encircle, enfold, and ensnare:

I wait. I am patient as time.

The traps are all set.

 

Oh, what have we wrought!

My partner, my love?

The pealing bell rolls across the land.

 

The leafless branches rattle

together in the cutting wind.

Like arthritic fingers they grasp

feebly at the ebbing warmth.

I hurry indoors-winter is unfriendly.

 

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.

 

Freestyle
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.