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trahison

It’s once again, midnight

humming arrogantly with

a churning of the wheels.

It's a soft-spoken rapture

& brutal shedding of rust:

in the hour when ghosts in

their shadow-cloaks come out

to play,

all nice.

 

This is what with which

you are stricken :

Silence & alien gestures

you’ve rehearsed

 

 

Sometimes, your blood

won't evaporate as quickly as you'd wish

-when the swallowing gets laborious.

He looks so pretty and easy prey.

His words fell on you like bullets,

His hands fell onto you like oil to water.

Slaughter & Divide

All you've wanted to hear:

All he knows to say

Blame beta fathers , such farmers

with borders & no horizons-

they never went to the moon

And you are selling prime real estate

somewhere in the Milky Way

 

Here you easy come easy go

in the pseudo-celestial shallows,

Yet you are still nothing more,

nothing less than your shotgun grandfathers

and their drinking women

with ******* aflame.

Black hole reverie or Persephone

Make the call.

 

However, this is such a regular revelation ,

you are always saying the past has yet to come

as you set the record to repeat and

let the meridian of time rot.

 

Then he looks at your thighs

and listens to your speaking,

and you wilt in the glitter

because it's scripted, wilt so

Effortlessly

So needlessly.

Shutter, revoke, indulge, repulse.

 

Tonight in your belly, lies the gravestone of insanity,

unrooted by some ill intended resurrection of goodwill and humanity.

 

You are always missing the mark

but so quick to pull the trigger.

Full of so much of what's easier done than said -

 

You lie down in ethanol meadows making dust-angels amongst the metal beehives,

as he's looking at you

like some sort of promethean redemptress,

asking you meekly for just a touch

and then you swallow your refusal,

cramping up in a paralyzed and vampiric ecstasy.

Who first taught you the word ephemeral again ?

 

He reaches

You retire.

You say I have no sugar

For myself

Let alone for my brother

But then again, you let it flow

from your bubbling mouth.

Flagellating yourself with the same cane.

 

 

Then you pray for absolution on a bended knee

for the form alone, mockery of a jellyfish woman

Indeed, the skeletoned live on another plane entirely.

 

And you beg for mercy

Beg for forgiveness

Lest they love you not for

The alien cancer petrifying in your gut.

He beckons you over

You fold and bend down,

One should only ever be primitive

In this menagerie of sunsets and sunrises

He jumps your bones

But you're already nothing but dust

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la-jongleuse
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Jan 11, 2017
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