border towns and underground existence
where does the first world end and third world start?
there third and fourth worlds in every city
on every corner
consequences of occupation
po-lice proxy wars
how we got border towns?
when each neighborhood lies on some border
between white and Black and Brown
Rich and Poor
first and third world
right?
first world the colonizers
third world the colonized
second world the ghost of the genocides
it took to preserve capital's wretched glory
the first world will be the first engulfed
in fiery ruin
Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 10:21 AM UTC
off with the heads
of the heads of the states
out of the houses
and into the streets
no borders
no nations
no more exploitation
no starvation wages
or indoctrination
abolish all prisons
put kops out of jobs
an end to these prisms
and liberal facades
tired of lies from people in power
drag the bourgeois out their ivory towers
tear down the walls
dismantle the systems
answer the calls
don't act like you missed them
the time is now
the place is here
no hesitation
no more of this fear
the time to fight is now
Mar 1, 2017
Mar 1, 2017 at 10:47 PM UTC
palates and platelets
pallets and plates
mind and matter
brain and body
float me down the river
with the sun far from falling
---
desert fog
shiphorns blow in the distance
melting tundra
poke holes in the old maps
winds that blow between your toes
and stir undying shivers into quiet pines
***
Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 5:47 PM UTC
you stood and spoke
like the women before had
and i felt it coming
you approached the front
and rising up in me
the stammering, wilting pain
you laid it out for the room
not even half your horrors
and i just wanted to die for you
because i would
selfish as it would be
the clichéd fatal love
We talk of our failures
past present and future
We forget to acknowledge
what you say he always says
the longest way round
is the shortest way home
Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC
i am afraid of
heights and
the buzzing in my head
the unacknowledged cravings
the thirst that drenches the flame
the words that you might say
that begin a whole new spiral
into a different circle that before
was just that craving, teasing
its way around the back of my mind
the tip of my tongue
the length of my everything
the depth of my nothing
the cravings that circle
with razor sharp teeth
and i read about those
with voices and christian parents
and know that i will never be
that which fascinates
whatever it is that lies inside
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 7:41 PM UTC
the echoes rose up
from mouth to top
the ringing that reached
through a viscous darkness
the underwater dusk
wet and open
seeking to rest
or be banished
curious but
somehow busy
always fading
from light
i
am
going
to
it's hard
to know
who what
when where
why is never
close why is
the elusive it
that sweats through
i no longer write
for anyone but the
person that started writing
then slowly disappeared as
my fingers kept
tapping and i
lost sight of
the why that
i could
never have
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 7:36 PM UTC
a slave to wordiness, verbosity
self referential
(poems where sparsity lays the heart raw
something to thump against
our mouths and hands
little parts of ourselves
sadness is the only understanding).
cut, copy, paste
everything is lost, rediscovered
conduits are the building blocks
within the building blocks
contradictions of rationality.
everything is connected
drifting.
not machines
not of this world.
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 7:28 PM UTC
violent body of mine
take me away
my shoulder
hurts
but
no match
for the haze
that muddles my mind
i
am ashamed
of my body
all of the hate
that i am missing
i make up
for that
absence
they
tell me
i am great
i am everywhere too
i can bleed my
heart out on
a library
computer
and
feel no
more exposed no
less strong i am
filled with that hate
where i can
lay everything
bare
if
i so
choose i am
not stifled by this
body which i cannot
love i am
stifled by
my
mind
the guilt
the shame of
eyes-half-shut looking
blinking through tears equal
parts wind and
limitless possibilities
i,
terrified
of what
will soon be
inevitable i just can't
i just can't admit
that i can
do anything
i
want
whenever i
want however i
want forever i want
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 7:11 PM UTC
i got creepings
crawlings
in first and
second vertebrae
You got slow
tears
anguish you chained
since forever
i got wails
panting
fissures break then
who, me?
You got people
everywhere
you say alone
i understand
i dug my
fingers
into my pockets
you worked
You want to
run
empty words with
great meaning
there is no
We
i know you
but can't
the We lies
between
we **** it
always fleeting
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 6:57 PM UTC
back to normal so quickly
in an instant melting
the alien coating
that flavored my ache
layered my peculiar humor
night with every one gone upstairs
sitting with toxic concoctions that
i only knew i needed
when my mind went
blank
the pizza box i stepped
on melted by snow fused
to the ground i stepped
on it twice and the moisture
soaked itself stuck on my bones
passive bellicose falling asleep screaming cleaning down the dark street nobody there shave my neck with a switch-blade and we sink together into a comfort that makes us sick sad and listless just this quiet nowhere
my nowhere in the sterile kitchen
scrubbed with a solution fading
with circular wipes but ring stains
persist condensation lifting me out
of my body to see where the real
indeterminacy lies
Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 12:07 AM UTC