A Fire of Uncommon Velocity
Lecture
of nectarines taking precedence
Over the
vast emptiness of my name and quickly depleting body
Collapsed
in holy withdrawal and a shivering wound left unhealed by time or
paranoia
Hopeless
hope of nothing to come but lonesome nights in the thick of nowhere
Juniper
daze and hold me over the barrel of your gun
Ancient
aneurysm of dysfunctional maladies, bitter taste lingers on a tongue of
misfortunate choice
There,
beneath hideous green/blue liquids awaits truths yet untold
And by
token of my own relinquished desire, fires of uncommon velocity
burn the
palate in star/space speed
and brooding
collapse...
Flat on
my back, eyes turned towards heaven, black after that all else fades
and
in this haze
of unequaled
delirium, I become the father who in life has evaded me
For all
to see, my religious frenzy
played
out in turbulent half-acts at rosary pin-wheels
And blood
drips wearily from the wounds of childhood affliction, claws ripping
inwardly
But forget
all I've previously tried to raze
And instead
gaze upon the altar now assembled
to erase
that which gave birth to this
unfortunate
man/child. With a slightly crooked smile,
replace
torn, umbilical rip cord in defense of my premeditated crime. Unworthy
bastard they call I
And I alone
shall stand in judgement of the mirror held before me
Cracked
down the middle like quicksilver oozing down your golden throat
A blood-letting
jab through the arteries of stasis, and chaos floods the body like a
broken
dream...
Holding
on in bold-faced desperation,
Holding
on to one last fatal glimpse
Hands meet,
touch, retract
Burned
to ember
Weakness
has sunken in and taken its place
at the
head of this dark parade
The stormtroopers
attack, bringing up the backwash of bile,
A vile
agenda lived out in monotonous pain
Forming
shit soaked lives, denied by those
who fake
at life
Denied,
maligned, redefined circles of shit
Costumed
as shit,
Cherishing
shit as though we are indebted to it
May we
live to regret or forget?
This nightmare
is in overdrive,
A fire
of uncommon velocity