Malady

The heavy lead blocks
Feeling completely spavined
Ineluctable

Zymotic gulf like nihilism
Hollow skull starved
Explodes wherein of itself

The wells enlarge
And vomit happy
Under sunken stars

As Baryshnikov they
Perform deep under laps
Enveloped lightly and kingdom come

Pallid as an interwar prostitute
The ball in the stomach floating like a foetus
Intense maladies and ulcer-bile-black night skies

Cross-hair river bed
You could chase me if you
I know where the gunshots fire

I know all the exits
Brechtian how easy into slumbers
A real face to death is an occasional depression
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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Ryusaka Avatar
August 1, 2009 at 8:43 PM
long time no speakz =[
Moon Avatar
July 27, 2009 at 7:18 PM
that's a great write...I got lost just a little, but nonetheless, it’s great like all of your poetry...keep your imagination soaring, and your pen flying...God Bless you and take care...<3 Brittany
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July 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM
HEY!! come back!!!
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