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 Mar 2020 Larry
anu
....
 Mar 2020 Larry
anu
Instead of dying everysecond
Can die in a
Second

Suicide !
.....
 Mar 2020 Larry
anu
World doesn't want it
I want it
Let that come and take me
Dear Corona
Please have me
And take me !
Just tired of everything....
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Crystal Radios
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
I'm 12 and in bed for the night
    listening to WSAI. Dusty Rhodes
    is the DJ playing Rock and Roll
    on my crystal radio in my ear.
    I'm frozen there forever. I will
    never die. I'm 12. I hear the world.
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Lobotomy
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
I don't know what they've done to you, my love.
    They claim they fixed you but I fear they stole
    your essence, your flame that burned too bright
    but kept us both warm in the bitterest winters.
    You look almost the same as before except your
    eyes seem vacant. Both seeing and blind together.
    I miss your outbursts of passion that thrilled
    and scared me. They always ended in mad *******.
    Now we don't ride the bed together. I tuck you in,
    a kiss and pulling a sheet over you like a shroud.
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Lobotomy
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
The world I know is black and white.
Food is bland and love impossible.
If I smile it's by accident not joy.
He sterilized an ice pick and mind ******
me until he found my identity and killed it.
Lobotomy banished my demons and my self.
 Mar 2020 Larry
Homunculus
. . .(and the narrator asks:)

Can someone tell me, where did
all these basketball sized mangoes come from?
Why is the sky purple, and
who is the debonair, pinstriped,
feather-brim porkpie hatted man in it,
twirling his diamond handled cane and puffing his pipe
into clouds, raining splotches of
incandescent dark matter?

See how it congeals into forms.
Watch how the forms animate . . . .
. . .****, how many cigarettes is that, now?
Could swear I'd quit months ago . . .
LISTEN: Now they are communicating!
    "Zeepa Dappa Doppa Dooba Dooba Dee Dao!"
The ghosts of deceased jazz musicians?
Louis! Is it you? I'm not Dolly, but it ain't no folly of mine!
D'ya wanna puff on this here ******, have a swig of this here wine?
Wait, wuh-wuzzat?
My FEETS' too big?
FATS!!!!!!!!!!! IS IT REALLY YOU?!?!?!?!
Cuz if'n it be, I must confess, I HAVE been misbehavin'
S'pose that's why I'm here, after all.'

This world is dense and immense
and it makes less sense
than a fortress guarded by
an inch-high ironclad fence


(. . .and 3 days later the narrator awoke and aptly asked:)

****!
Where did all my money go?
Where is my left kidney?  
Why is there a tattoo of Icarus on my forehead?
Why am I in Colombia?  
Where is my passport?
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!?!?!?!
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Addictions
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Do you know the answer?
Do you even know the question?
We're all just dumb beasts of burden
when all is said and done.
I want pleasure where I find it.
I'll pay the wages of sin for it.
I'll betray Christ for the silver
or hand God to the atheists for
an hour with a pipe or needle.
Don't hate me for my addictions.
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
Destiny
 Mar 2020 Larry
Acme
I sit on the castle wall drunk.
I tilt left and right and back and forth.
I'm Humpty Dumpty the big egg.
My destiny is to fall and break.
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