Nights like these
Who’s right? Who’s wrong?
Am I living or have I been missing?
Will I wake from a dream
Find myself 80 years old stuck in the past
Nothing but questions,
No answers to report
Nights like these had painful days
Unrecognizable from others
In the way brutally disfigured corpses
Failed to be identified by the authorities
Another cold case
Nights like these
You are distant but your memory
Brings me back to my youth

Tuesday breaks into
an empty dawn
I wake
yawn
have a little scratch,
roll a cigarette and
light a safety match.

The day'll fill
for good or ill

I make the most
of empty moments.

Playgrounds turn to battlefields
as our children grow into children
who **** children
and it's always us vs them
as sneakers filling with sand
turn into boots filling with blood
but blood is cheap
and easy to make
the less we educate
the more likely our babies
will make babies of their own
while they are still babies
so take away birth control and information
and it doesn't have to be safe ***
as long as they keep getting pregnant
consensual or ****
lets keep that fetus safe
we need new feet to keep marching
to keep those old war drums banging
late into the night
to keep our enemies hating
on what we do because
they just don't get our idea
of what it means to be cool
it's live by our cross
or die by our sword
in the might of the dollar
and the words printed on every coin
we know we're always right
so military or civilian just bomb them all
and let god sort them out
because blood is cheap
and the dollar needs
  more
    more
      more
of that beautiful thing we call war

I had never seen eyes that were glaciers
The act upon you as those icy giants do
Slowly as it moves, you realize
Crept up on you, surrounding you
Leg trapped, it is a patient freeze
Consumes, crushes, kills

Blush, red roses
Tender milk in the bell-shaped body
A bed of the flowers, her body is
Each one falls on my face and senses
Smother me in your sweet, suple aroma
And at eruption
All the beauty in the dance makes me implode
Into the universe I go
Into a thousand little stars I become
I feel the lightning in my bones
So engulfing, my rocket eyes take off
Life bounces up all around my cranium
I feel her eyes
Rolling back as the sensation tends to pull them
We are life
A slice of
The benevolent force