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B Wasserman Jun 2016
Away! depart
never come back
no more and yes never

you should be grateful
that I was gratious
your head spared
from the sport of
a knife

you should be honest
since your lying tongue
remains perched in
your lying mouth

you will remain
forgotten: your deeds
buried by your own hand,
your ventures
invented, stirred up
under a false cloud

As long as sunshine
basks fair over
rivers and hills alike
shall you never
entreat my presence.
B Wasserman Jun 2016
I attack
I venge
I yearn
I attack all foes
all high and low alike
I venge against
betrayers of good faith
I yearn to repair
my name to good repute
All the donned blows
fail to extinguish
the lamp that retains
the rage which
empowers the burn
for my god
carries on belligerent
men pretend to know me
they are more in tune
with their own doubts
their own trepidations
I neither doubt
nor insult
nor injure
nor disarm myself
B Wasserman Jun 2016
I come
and the wind
burns in knots
with rank perfumes
sand, dirt
I cant see the sky
the clouds sleep low
windmill shuffles
hands like rusty
iron spiders

How did we arrive here?
memory bears no
recollect
my recollect pours
on empty
I run over my last thought
with my last thought
with my last thought
driving on and
burying with
endless wheels
delivering black weight
and flowers for prayers
learning my last thought
died with first thought
B Wasserman Jun 2016
You could jump into a well,
You could cast your feet to hell,
You would return again to me
You could take your life and stab
it through my head
But you cant subdue the sea
You could break my eyes
and scatter seeds of glass
crops miserably sown in past
You and me, we could
sing for the mountains
and walk for the trees
navigate like shadows
drunk on the night
with moonlight on our lips
B Wasserman Jun 2016
I tumble down
a well to find you
candle's out
drought weighs
hard and hungry
as does the knife
in my heart

you left uncalled
the morning bare
my appetite bare
everywhere turned
up grinning with
broken teeth since
you left

I could drown in a delta
filled with nails
fill the tributaries
with blood
with sorrow

Alas my heart pursues
where the trails yawns black
my head swamped by smoke
I beg you to cancel the flames
I beg you to take the torch out

I am slowly going out
lands and leaves
canyon wounds raise red hells
all my hells ring and lament
I shout and bang and reverbrate
your name to every cave

I carry on with dynamite
in my hands and your torch
in my head.
B Wasserman Jun 2016
I shall not cover
and hide my
thousand displays of love.

You are a furnace for the
music of my sweet language
you weigh remorse in the
funnel of your throat

families of the departed
curse and chase
false images dressed
in false images

a man misinterprets my love
I talk to him bring him
waters of patience to drink

I take, because
I take what I can love

promiscuous? Yes, I am
promiscuous
greatest of lovers
orchard of gems
all in my reach
all in my debt

man is a horrible weather man
weather is greater
more incendiary
man is doubt
wrapped over by skin
skin that leaps back
into a forest after a lifetime.
B Wasserman Jun 2016
Telescope walks
through the universe
to discover itself

distorted by suns
seated on your head
like your future
you give no thought
you just want your eyes
to tunnel through
and wade through
all past is left
for the telescope
no answers here
no closure
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