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Akemi Oct 2016
sifting through black rubble
i find pieces of myself
old chokes with
fractured bodies
and little burnt fingers.

the sky is a holy grey box
downpour
spiral fragments
but mostly crying children.

when will i die?
wisconsin two penny sue weathertop tock tock

slow bombs fall on syrian children. they lift their hands in time to see their flesh fall, torn from bone, pieces of skull, shrapnel, chemical rot. support the troops, support the troops, support the--

eagle flies over itself, why do we exist

feet through the door, forgot my pen, ** i am so forgetful and original, let us share a coffee and socialise, yes i do like canadian indie music, bjork is my favourite

empty signifier slipping through the gaps in speech THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE THERE IS NO PURPOSE

i keep falling through the earth, my feet, my ******* feet

where is the core? mother's grave circling itself. ouroboros looped through time, folded space

pi pi pills; swollen liver, kidneys, brain, it's a painful way to die, most are. your friends are awful

i can't ******* write poetry. these objects of cathexis are simply old memories of distance reified into absence. all presence collapses into the memory of absence. this is what i have been trying to say for weeks.

ANNIHILATION IS EVERYWHERE. I CAN'T GET IT OUT.

i am so clever, choking god. i am so clever. nobody is here
Akemi Oct 2016
wreathed in dead skin
this body is whole
severed from where i departed
eternally homeless
i am alone

this flesh is bone
light fractured
i woke choking god
a crown of teeth
until my hands lost definition

i was never here
abyssal hands
reach into
the empty signifier
me.
Akemi Oct 2016
Holy rot. I cover the street.
Breaking, breaking.
Loose glass, filling with blood.
Teeth on the pavement.
Teeth in the sky.
I’m sick of these smiles.
Blood flowing laughter.
The body turned inward.
Crossing a river.
What connects me to you?
The hunger. The horror.
The wretched maw of time.
laughing through the pavement glass breaks and the ocean rises bones teeth hair stupid smiling faces thursday night the earth is flooding but the children run fingers through empty palms cans runoff spoiled dirt faces pressed into the earth like bottle caps dead birds wrapped in ******* and oil drinking black bourbon death puking why ******* why wrists pills exhaust fumes rope around the neck no wonder life wastes through itself in this post-ironic age
Akemi Sep 2016
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My greatest desire is to slip out of this world completely unfelt.
Akemi Aug 2016
Tell me there’s a purpose.
No.
A severed head.
The self in departure.
Crossing a river.
Light beams fall through.
There are four walls that make up the emptiness of this room.
throwing throwing throwing throwing throwing throwing throwing throwing
Language writhes.
I fail to find the contours.
Sharp and brittle, like the hop hop sting of minute glass.
pitter patter
arms thrown
out out, out out, out out, out
The word is power, signifier of a real that folds into itself irrevocably, perpetually.
I construct that which I speak, divorcing the imaginary and symbolic with a plunging knife.
God is born in ****** revolt.
Entangled in the penumbra of becoming, I birth the stranger that is myself.
Who are you?
A static noise.
Father breathing snow onto the mountain.
Hair, grey matted, a coarse empty palm.
Tell me the tale of withering.
White abyss.
The bifurcation of light from darkness.
The power of speech split totality from the world.
Purged death in freezing time.
brittle bones
circulation
a shutting door
still air
winter passing
A cool current that stutters like the clap shut of death.
I run but go nowhere.
Child crying in the empty hallway.
I speak the word but no one is there to hear it.
I circulate like blood.
Face pressed to the floor.
I repeat.
The word is power.
Tears staining my cheeks.
I am nothing but a swell.
The empty drone of the earth.
why do you cry?
rivulets
ruptures
the sand bank dreams of crustaceans and wine
you blur like the burning edge of a paper
an open, wasting core
Akemi Aug 2016
maybe the ground is tilting
i descend
earth dipped in blood
kid eating a candy apple
space all stretched
fuzzed out
light beams round tree limbs
hanging lanterns
i try to speak
density
a million billion stars crushed into a black-
you pick up the jacket and throw it
the cat says bow-wow
bow-wow
bow-
my head a ******* balloon
string tangled like negative space
the moon’s surface
i hate this world
black white wash wash wash
the ground is geometry
flesh walking in circles
Akemi Aug 2016
pin
this world is noise
broken ceramic
the head of a pin

sometimes i dream about a pin going through my neck
my head rises like a balloon
and i

if you place your ear against the ground
you can hear the earth hum
it sounds like rushing water
blood
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