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Asides Within a Last Breath

Three lying deacons swim in a handbag - and a lone, celibate pastor paces longingly bemused. Michael, the Arc Angel, poses silently, in dusty Gabbana drag, cursing the lipstick-painted laymen writhing in rancid attar - naked and intentionally unused. Four wide-eyed boys dance on a daydream – kissing ripped posters of a white collared rapist. Saint Peter understands the jovial jokesters - the foolishness when blackened specks darken the void; the flurried flutter of his eyelids casts a tainted shadow upon a fractured sexual ballet. They continue to kiss below the waist. Three lying deacons and a pacing pastor resides – five lip-smacking nurses massaging your head. Four wide-eyed boys caress your knuckles as the well-trimmed priest pronounces a poorly scented infant: "anally dead." Seven cardinal sins slip and divide into 3 venial ratios. "Hi, Sonny"... Greed, lust and vanity are mortal crimes; Father Fragrantly Fresh... quietly proclaims: "snuggle a bit closer and sniff a hint of Genesis." Say I’m to blame and cause-count the afflictions – smaller undetected lumps hump the jaded addictions brain dead and haughty – the zombies circle and laugh! I wasn't born in a dark discarded Parisian tunnel but - can you Roman Polanski me, please? Kill the poet... and make him pay - below the waist. Crushed words embody a forgotten loner’s epitaph! (force him to stutter stupidly) and within a last breath - and within a last breath - and within a last breath - GOD... "the string-strangled puppet conventionally chokes - and quietly succumbs (to a textured landscape) of a youthful silenced dying... ...swaddled and swallowed in a heavenly - haloed chosen death..."

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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Date: 7/15/2012 7:26:00 AM
Congrats on your excellent poem being featured this week....Patrick
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Date: 7/14/2012 7:44:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week John. Love, Carol
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Date: 7/8/2012 8:59:00 PM
Congrats, John, on this one being featured. Brings up a lot of images, some unwanted but necessary. The choices made so long ago have had a negative impact on the true message. But hey, don't kill the poet, he's just thew messenger. Didn't they have a song out in the 70s from the Asbury park area called "don't Shoot The Messenger."
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Date: 7/8/2012 3:55:00 PM
john, congratulations with your featured poem of the week.. hope you are enjoying yours~Always ;-) PD
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Date: 8/12/2008 3:56:00 PM
Quite disturbing and yet so intriguing, had me playing all kinds of mind games. Very well written. Love Heidie
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Date: 8/10/2008 10:01:00 PM
Intense and depthful, full of introspection and stinging truth. Makes one contemplate the inevitable--their mortality. You described it so eloquently. You are a brilliant writer. Take good care of yourself, Sara
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