Blankness Reflected (Part 1)
shivering teeth the ceiling’s descent,
the drunken spongy borders of
dim imagined soggy pulsing
images in foggy spots,
exhalation and the sound of exhalation,
sense as the center of dampening paper
surrounded by our soft cocooning breath.
the shrieks are streaked across the walls by
muffled crux-splatter and shuffled scuttle after
skin-wrinkling stink, under-curl shrinkwrap of
comatose redeye
paint-by-memories,
remembered
visions of
ambling backslides,
jigsawed backside horizon
intimating blackened soul,
so
the sky is falling
in so dark split shatter rift cracks
faded bleak paint streaks
bleeding watercolor from above,
cloud fog tops of toothy skyscrapers,
drip drop splatter plops on
closed eyes,
vacuum void pupils, and
fingernails that scratch attached to hands attached to sprawling nothing
named.
echoing
generating rank fragrant impact
sacks of poetry,
memory,
life
stacked by the door
filling cracked space gaps with
slick and sickening scattered sacks,
shattered patched mock-smokeless thoughts
collecting next to kitchen sinks,
grime and mold and
ants converging colonists,
the smell the heat it generates congeal to
melt the hipster
break the beatnik
and
politico and
preacher melt
the child father mother melt
the you the me
into
elemental blank drywall
cement smooth surface,
reflection of an etch-a-sketch,
cannibal intellect,
our scratching sounds
obscured through suture-milky selves,
imagined innocuous incestuous imagination,
the poem the poet are clown house mirrors
reflecting endless reflection reflecting endless
so endless
so stab the bleeding hearts of the
bleeding-heart poets,
**** abrasively the ******* of the
sensuous speaking spectacle
preformed performance
melt all it is
it’s all
it is and
all is
Copyright © Zach Kaplan | Year Posted 2008
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