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Cosmosis (A Poem of Intolerable Desire)

I am unraveling webs in the scathing sentence of intolerable desire, A prison of prints and pictures barred by beautiful blondes, Rigid, icy, spaced by invisible thoughts between them, Rows hypnotizing one after the other, belly-dancing while they wear their smiles. They break from their line formations with socket wrenches in their right hands, coaxial cables in their left hands, And they slink and slide and slowly salsa to my mattress against the wall As they adjust and tighten their wrenches upon each of my arteries, and feed their coaxial cables into my ears. Their strawberry perfumes force me to note new appetites in my concrete lungs. They melt into me, and I melt into them, and we roll into a clay figurine against the plaster wall. Their hair burns red now, or brunette, or perhaps all the colors of a rainbow of self-inflicted hypocrisy, And their breath is exhaling like ceilings fans, softly and slowly, out of my lungs, And I can no longer distinguish which of us is the other anymore, nor do I really want to. We are a cosmosis; We are cosmetology unstable, madly desired, and awry, In an osmosis of imagined consummation. We are beauty in its ugliest truth. Eventually, we dissipate, disgusted from transformation, And I scuttle up the wall, a brown recluse, And the brunetteblonderedheadsilkskinned keep their cosmosis, Walking as a ball of arms and legs on six foot-tall toothpicks to separate and reform their bars again.
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Mar 12, 2013
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