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Your honeysuckle cheeks
Leave the saccharine taste
Of spring on my lips
He washed his hands until they bled
And then a little more

He bolted every window
And he locked every door

Through the cracks he peered out at his neighbors
And said “oh for heaven’s sake!

Those bat-eating chinks
We outta burn them at the stake”

Like that no-good ****** Yang
They’re infecting our country

UBI’s for lazy *****!”
Though he could really use the money…

Cause he’s been out of work for days
And has not received a raise

For the last 10 years
Amid corporate fears
of the left’s socialist craze

Yet he still angrily paces
Says “I don't mean to be racist

But they’ve gotta go - all of ‘em!”
As his face turns pale and fever runs

Poor sick thing, he doesn't know
That the hate is just for show

A trick, a guise, a twisted rouse
To turn me against you

Amidst  our misguided attacks
They extort and contort the facts -  

Our communities decay
We rot and waste away

You think it’d gone undetected?
We were always infected
Fraught
Writhing
Speaking in tongues
Words I’ve never known
        “I love you”
the key that opens also locks - choose your actions carefully
I scaled the wall of
Your maze - to hell with your cheese
I will churn my own
The turtle wades
In water blistered by the storm
- Bathes politely, still
Addled Joints mumbling incoherently
Creaking obscenities as they stir
Stiff fists shake at the relentless sunrise
      -   ****
Another day
From the undone dishes
rotting in the sink
a maggot crawls
to me and says
“Get  your life together”
Love culminates with
Delicacy between our
Shaking fingertips
What should I write about today?
Love, death, or foreplay?
It’s all the same
In my wallet, rummaging
will this one decline?
- panicked, next in line
I long for that sweet,
Ephemeral moment of ecstasy:
Your kiss
jaybird shrieking
cursing God or Gravity
- her egg still falls
Main Street clairvoyant
With her $5 revelation -
We’re all going to die
grumble of the semi’s
greedy gut, gobbling my ancestors
wheels turning like time
My chest and spirits
Rise in tandem as I breathe
The essence of you
Skies darken, bellow
Thunder or gunshots?
I can never tell these days
sun bleeds red
through closed eyelids
can’t escape the day
See the world through Van Gogh
Soften your focus and
look out your window
Haiku, daily
“To Hell with Descartes!”
          Scream anxious knots in my back
Tangled like body and mind
injured bird
in my shoebox
**** Darwin
florescent buzz
of the streetlight fleeting against
the infinity of night
duck bobbing merrily
feet fluttering in the summer air
another quaint death
liver spots
on the streets
we grew up in
I held two flags
Both  red white and blue
You said I could only choose one
footprints in the sand
       confirmation I exist
washed away
soggy cherrios
left on the slide - forgotten
in mid-imagination
i wish i could ask
you what you think of me now
that you are gone, Mom
Memories
Blank like an unwritten checkbook
Try to recall
Days unspent
My pen sputters and stalls -
Check engine light flashing
Behind my eyelids
Caught from that rich jade
Sea, you slice me thin, bearing
My raw abundance

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