Brain-Dead

reading more between the words, my fractured
dream, identified by its teeth, begins to bite
in pursuit of an unknown fear, the river
          becoming red, a paranoid delirium
          sets out a scream under the praised
          beheading of a jolted lover in the name

of a betrayal, a son goes to court arrest
for mother, in earth hour of unseen grief,
voiceless, vendetta between the pacemakers
           of sick hearts, the horrible incest, nicked
           and kept in a glass jar to be witnessed by
           waxed faces of dying men rinsing the

heart with blood of fallen heroes; the honeymoon 
of unborn centuries waiting in vain



SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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June 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM
WOW LOL GOOD STUFF, ENJOYED THIS ONE.. IT SOUNDS LIKE A MOVIE.. MID AGES LOL -IRMA
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June 8, 2010 at 6:24 AM
Enjoyed reading your poetry this morning Satish. Have a beautiful day. Love, Carol
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