Lore of Bad Gold | A Poetic Menu For Vultures
Published August 30, 2005
Midnight Snack – the vertigo of your Vagina, the soft spinning of a breast brushed—the paintbrush of my soul—a knitted nipple—a tear sown between both our legs, the dream that danced just below the surface of an Ocean separated by Time and the sadistic sands of Destiny.
"I am always With You!"
—So says God while We masturbate.
"I am always there!"
—So says God while we drift and drown.
"I am the buoy that Comes in The Night!"
—So says God when His feelings falter...
"I am!"
—So says God when We assemble a shrine made of piss and turpentine.
"I Become Naked!"
—So says God—standing in the mirror—exuding the oil of oranges and various fragile fruits, fulfilling your vision—sweat glands—the odor of a day fulfilled—the end of a road—wall of flesh—bridge of moats—the voice of the cottonwoods—the sound of two boats: "Victory or Death!"—hanging over the empty sky.
The table is set: and Now We come to the bread-knife: the flour blooming, the proof of Your Heat, a white vagina, the blade an eternal sharp-hardness—whetted on the the skin of a maid—hard like the anvil beating the Swan.
She is full, feathered, fragrant; flight-prepared, a foregone Conclusion, a winter wasp wanting the Seeds of Summer:
I am the Wing.
She is The Wind.
Her Earth holds my young dreams.
Epilogue: The Dangers of Insomnia
Apex night in the cool mausoleum
friends have turned to stone
families sleep in drowned aisles
small children chased by wild animals
in a dead yet haunted zone;
cities are almost silent
filled and stilled
with renegades in metal wombs
hats back in a restful descent.
Nothing but static
beating the concrete veins.
I lie awake
just this side of the interstate
counting and naming the loop of sheep
imagining tears for a meal of pets
knowing that being alive at this hour
leaves me standing by that shut door
with open eyes
ear pressed to the obstacle
which holds
for Us, a sleeping world of Them.
Thus We are set apart by our optical curiosity
and the relentless retinal intake.
They are not My Tribe.
Lids sewn open forever,
doubting the imminent arrival of sleep,
settle into my restless arms
which at this hour
resemble gods.
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Edited: PC
- Lore of Bad Gold | A Poetic Menu For Vultures
- Published: August 30, 2005
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Books
- Filed Under: Books: Original Fiction
- Writer: Shark
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