Friday, September 6, 2013

September Harvest

It’s come to this.
more peace. More peace of mind
jutting suddenly to the left 
as if being struck by an invisible object
obsessed with carnage
violence and impunity
like oil seeping into tiny fissures  
and all I have to say
The thing about power is: it’s not even

Where radiation pours down on my terrain incessantly;
With a match this would be a firestorm
and I bleed water here
at a great expense that cannot be fully understood
in the way that I love to vandalize things
is not so apparent to the layman
however
it takes a lot to lift oneself
and it’s always proportional 
It’s not what you want it’s what you need.
And you Fucking Need to understand this

As if each foreign noise is cause for suspicion
There is nowhere to run, that matters
As I am constantly overwhelmed by the thought that I cannot articulate how I feel in this reality
It drives me fucking crazy
In a world of piety and righteousness, (I am the Golgari)
We defeat things by making a mockery of them
And seek to entrench ourselves; so that others will not make a mockery of us
the answer is apparent : : take the initiative
in any direction
that leads you where you need to be 
along this road, I have learned to exhume some kind of strength
because a twitching hand sequesters a shaking one,
in a way like chasing a phoenix through the dark places of your mind
becomes an insatiable search for perfection
like crushing a snowball into ice

the problem that presents itself then is a systemic one:
practice pursues perfection forever
you can never do anything too right
a fatal blow can never be too clean, a tree can never grow too  well
(a love can never be too perfect)
  like all nerves, they must make connections
and in this fractalated universe
the dimensions that must be traversed
are difficult to express with words
in a frivolous attempt to conceptualize

a thing that must be experienced  

Monday, August 26, 2013

22/100

It all comes out as the same note.
The same space where everything seems to be of one color
Where the most adventurous dreams end in a time-consumptive lesson
And all that was and is are the same
Passing some thoughtless nexus
traveling through entrophy
As time destroys us all
Each to our own design
The madness blooms under feral sun
Suspicions boil where affirmation once held sway
Under the reign of the sun
Everything becomes a competition

As the proliferation of self is all-consuming

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

surfacing

This constant ballet of resources
Money there, funding here, gas, food, weed, blow
It’s a life of constant allocation
When I want to understand more than I already do
In this void from which all things come
That needs to expressed: like an infection
Where everyone’s right. I’m just being lazy.
But I too know. That this is all nothing.
When the thunder breaks the sky
Breaking through everyone’s
sense of self-importance.
I have not learned anything if not to save.
 subsist on little in this desert of violence and meth
control is a farce. Like human constructs built on constructs
dreams within realities. We are the forgotten. We are the underclassed. We are the expendables in a time of excess.
And yet we persist indulgently.
some fevered corruption of reality that sustains itself
in the way that self-actualization
becomes the last kind of orgasm you need
but don’t want to have


Sunday, August 11, 2013

In the dark

Behind the coyote lines
The hinnies if the young burros fall silent
The as I stand there
In the darkness overwhelmed by an emotion
Akin to terrified. Akin to fear.
in a large drain some doppelganger
unnervingly emulates what I do.
what brought me here:
It was the cinderblock courtyard in the middle of the night
Lit by one single halogen bulb that hummed into the encircling darkness
Generators underneath steel plates
Guarded a quarter mile to the west by novice security
What-the-fuck-does-that-door-into-the-ground-open?
What brought me here:
curiosity greater than anxiety that dominates
every space in my mind
behind me headlights don’t even realize they are perusing
and I sweat to get away,
to upper ground that they never seem to see  

Friday, July 19, 2013

Unable to express their own demise
As innocent as children that reach out yearningly
Their hearts are so haplessly underdeveloped
And I am not a good player in this
recognizing your own shortcomings
is the worst.
But it’s true.
Its honest and it’s self-actualizing
And it’s uncomfortable

we prevail. In such a way
on heavy tracks
they saunter
into the unknown
unable to perceive the forest for the trees

I ask myself
What my role in this matter should be.

Often.

Monday, July 15, 2013

21/100

The blue hour
beginning so suddenly
that it could hardly be said that it happened at all
the fireflies  with their persistent
hallucintationesque sex ritual
parodying something that I have been so shy to say
the kodama came out
as children looking for players in a kickball game.
it made me smile through my being
I had to graciously decline
“I am too heavy to play in your dimension”
But I will be coursing through the green for the rest of the night
I will proliferate with you.
In you.
As you.

In the very least; I can see you.
I can feel you.
And while I would desperately love to play.
The mosquitos drink my human flesh.
The ticks transmit diseases to me in this reality.
But I will join you soon enough
Share in this night with me
As we wander through the dark

into other dimensions
slipping from this one  

Sunday, June 23, 2013

bell-symbol

Under the raincross
The tears that fail to fall
we share a cough
in the pollution that never ceases
the roaring freight breaking up an otherwise still night
with horns that fracture the loyalties of this
forgotten realm

how have I come here?
What am I fighting- in this tragedy
Am I another player
Some bounding knight, some marching pawn
As we are all plainswalkers in this desert of queens
none are as useful as the hoof and talon
nothing is easy in the hot desert wind
chapping your face and hands into a submissive blue-collar slave.

Under the raincross
Oranges are crushed by vacant warehouses
Tweakers grift lawnmowers, bicycles and stereos
traffic asphyxiates all the dreams
nonexistent money strangles children of their futures
as if they had some other option to enlightenment
beyond the sale of their flesh
but I am not one to talk
 I cannot afford to shed water in this way

And we worship it,
Here; the bell and the glyph,
That never make any rain
Though we pray to them as if they could
As if all the deference in the world would save us
Begging for water in the name of some misplaced loyalty
The sound and the symbol cast their shadow
Fetishizing everything the burning heat touches
We don’t pray for water as much as we pray for cathartic tears

Remove us from the hurt that we bring upon each other.