Blankness Reflected (Part 2)
beautiful inspired contrived artifice it’s
sensation subconscious sucked
past excoriation reality
thick gelatin soup top curdled hot skin
strips slipping scalded skin,
shadow of Moloch still in the room
and on the brink of sidewalks,
talk to talk to talk to talk
and the interlocking meantime teeth of the sky of
toothy metropolis,
teeth of toothy babies,
violent spectacle gimmick image we
the pregnant
toothy presidents,
our presence
can you say that that suffices with
omnipresent hesitant snake-tongues strangling,
distraction speakers amplifying distracted half-born thoughts
aborted-absorbed by strangling subconscious void mind inclination
closed eyes
vacuum void pupils.
fingernails scratch attached to hands attached to sprawling nothing
named,
echoing,
generating rank fragrant impact,
spilling inky void into
perceptive orifices
only to arrive
spilling spinning shivering
shaking quivering screaming
define me,
blind spot fragments filled
by toothy want
to sharpen echoes
to digitize images
for the world of we of want of we,
teeth in plaster, skies in eyes and
symbols and images and
symbols in images
and worlds in words and words in words
away from worlds in worlds
and words and words and words
and
blankness
and blankness and blankness
and blankness and blankness
and blankness
reflected.
Copyright © Zach Kaplan | Year Posted 2008
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