Here we are again, in the deathmask of the city spinning. The circumcised sea with its crocodiles and scars. Never is the onrush of blood so violent the falsehoods of the sky that drip neon on our heads from desiccated clouds so true
This is the wild:
To the clusterfucked and cloistered swimming in their bowls of soup and the scuttled shells synchronous in their bass pulse beeping to the blackhats who don’t believe their messiah will ever come because they hear the trump of doom every second of every day yet they still stomp in their flatbeds for joy
and the prismatic dead who drag themselves from their gurneys to march through the alleys like tuskless elephants shoving their fingers into the sun’s fumarole determined to disintegrate into a mist of Krylon and copper
where we carry our concrete world slung over our shoulders and the ravenous moon in its ellipse above beached night heaving, eyes curling in their sockets like gunsmoke smoldering hearts humming like taut snares beheaded fish in front of us, beheaded bodies behind us I drag mine along by the hair.
To the children and the panhandlers who greet the lion like hello kitty and the skittish magnetic few in their lightning-spaded furrows on the ecliptic chained but leaping ever farther and higher like the wrecking ball’s pendulum
and all the naked lost milling among the mummified tenements, waving Geiger counters before them as they wander the sweaty street holding their heads high as they grind flesh against flesh pulverizing themselves into rubble
measuring the toll of time by destruction drinking in mercury and hard water and shrapnel and gamma and fire and gold
to them I say:
turn your hourglass on its side turn your hourglasses on their sides then acknowledge me so I can die in peace.