there's a humming in the apartment.
a monotone kerfuffle

a creature so beautiful; so broad, so ruffled
could not stretch upright; left, right,
or down between the legs.

the humming in the apartment
is painfully obscene.

cradled in the pumpkin patch
only to drown in the the canal
along with all the discarded tat.

i would laugh if it wasn't for the aerosol in my chest
and microplastic in my spine.

dining on cardboard fish as to not upset
THE NATURAL HIERARCHY
of things
and so jeff can go to space in a *****.

such ****** performances to languish
UNDER!
the carvings in my countenance tell me
autum will deliver ORANGE RED.

I have spent hours as a cockroach on the wall and days waiting for the bomb to drop in a trench somewhere out East.

Once I finally steady myself on the restless knee of beauty I find the night to have violently betrayed me - and although I still scatter under the light like those wretched things in our bathroom,

the days cast shadows with you

Stealing a yacht just to ram it in to the horizon
along with a muse fatally misplaced in whatever I can grasp with my two hands.

Finding the first blood red bloom of a rose bud
or the gentle sweetness in my last drag -
I would gladly die to live forever

Like all the love climbing the walls of our plastic zoos

nostalgia hits like a train

i want to
                fall
backwards

the future's kind with pain

our love
                falls
                         forever
backwards

happening upon a street light

and then another
and another
and another

until there are no more street lights
and i am met by a reflection
clearer
than any mirror
i've happened upon before

my desire
from curtain fires
to life on lillypads

put ******* liars
on washing wire
for peace in cleaner hands
...
the end of ends
amends my friends
i'll sleep when life is calming

on river beds
i'll rest my head
with frogs forever charming