You know I have lasers
for eyes
and I can see inside

Am I getting to the point
of sickness
what is this ride

it brings it all back
this wavelength
this deride

this is the end
of a thread
and you
are the eye
of a needle

this here is
the temperature
at which i melt
into rivulets
of snow

You must break
as I
have already

You must ache
as I
lift life to my mouth

to kiss it
in reverence
in thrall

Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis

Cratering on Thursday
Cray
ter
ing

impact rubble thrown

behind my ears
aches

shakes

I din't know
how sore

my head could be
from lying to you

This world misses
the bodies
we stare out from
this midwife of life
so used so often
so alone outside
our enterprise
when they should be
the center

One thing to save your life
**** all
it's yours you *******
empty the head trash
live now
right the **** now
nothing else exists

Is of no matter
disingenuous of you
opining

gaps 'tween **** ahm
hearin' dave mathews
space

if u had teeth n lips
'sted of aged what
no

Hidden within every atom
Of which you are made
Is Hiroshima

Against every atom
Of which you are made
Is love

Close
rubbing elbows
Smug

Inevitably
Grinning
****

Thinking
Buy it
Please work

You
playing
accede

We are whole
Of the universe
Bleeding air

For altitude
There isn't
High anuf



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

If only
that which graced me
would save me

They put me out
I was their eye

They blinded
themselves

To not see
this

My death
less uncomfortable

than their
safety

Want loses
to fear

Song loses
to breath

Humming along
this monster

lumbers forward
on ink

and discharge
of volts

rubbed from
the lies you hold

against the page
of your right now

Could everybody here
unclench

just for a moment
your learned
judgement

your imagined
learned judgement
stroking

whatthehell
i'm talkin'
to me here

why are you
listening in
to

You should sleep with me

and lines move
Redistrict reality

this is now
Used to be land

On your left
A sandwich

of understanding

those teeth, robed
In those lips

in that smile
under that

sorry readers
crinkley nose

'neeth
starry eyes

pretty geek
sublime

time is not
our friend

just
the collector

Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

Waiting for Toni
whom I've stopped
answering

so to address
this ghost
this most

who won't
stop by
and fall

on
my
sword

this is death
this is fear
this is panic

gritting my teeth
there's always my beef
with (something)

and scrambling time
over furniture
and feelings

and i am here
waiting for
her surrender

knowing well
maybe not
knowing

fearing well
maybe
frightened

as i operate
at this
dangerous edge

gambling i am
with
your truth

showing it
to
you

sorry
again
really

How does
this
not stick

as i
sit
crying

if you were
crying over me
i'd take your call

The vibration has arrived
I shake my tingling fingers
can you love your magnificence

this thing that carries you
not forward but now
as it consumes itself

is magnetic rare earth
don't bother tracking
memory is not for that

its the same trail we walk
over and over the same rocks
the same watering hole

and today the lions and tigers
are too tired and just need a drink
they'll ignore you while

No, you didn't!
SEE!
na nana na na na



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

Singing in wine
cabernet

salt
on another day

knowing
not knowing

what to say
hearing my
cliche

say hey
kids
all

swing at this line
bat your eyes

think of new lies
to keep your story
true-ish

tv, wine and
an itch i can't scratch

can't reach there
can't wretched here

and i sing
old hearts
old comedy
old simpleness

those lines
those ravens are enuf
so i think all this complexity
is decoration

all this angst
see pangs
self cooking art
and i know the reason

for all this
unexpected beauty

all this
unexpected beauty

yum


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis

rap snap wrap fap
lap lap lap hap

blap

alap alapa lap slap
flap flap ed flap
tap ed tap tap

knap

hap that cap
yap yap yap
sap hap?

no hap no sap
wap yo crap
trap

I thought
I had a thought
It had me wrought
But it was ought
and I was caught
in what I sought
thinking brought
empty fraught
stupidly fought
brain's naught