Moon Flower

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The Moon Flower opens up from dusk into the night. It is most beautiful to look at, but poisonous when ingested. This is written for a friend, whom I hardly knew, who knew the difference between delight and poison and chose one way, one way to go.

Moon flower

You lay on white cotton sheets with the hospital logo imprinted
on the cloth and on the fabric of your life talcum powder for
your bed sores anorexic washed out gastric spittle dribbling
from ulcerous mouth facing what had to come no more shine
no radiant beauty just a living corps in the moonlit dusky night

Fed up and fed through lines in your flaccid arms scared from
where the needles had left skinned putrid innocent islands had
succumbed to chasing the dragon fallen off addictive wagons
breathing shallowly through white powder perforated nose
the stigma of questing for life in ecstacy a dim echo of delusion

Noose marks round your neck overdosed under-clothed a crazy
lunatic dishevelled mis-resemblance of what should have been
was meant to be a vibrant journey not eclipsed by crying despair

Your parents had called you Luna Flora the moonflower in their
pagan hippie delight had not considered the toxic poisonous stars

Moonflower one of the most romantic plants in the garden sweetly
fragrant trumpet shaped blossoms unfurled in the night pollinated
by moths like white powder spreading beauty and toxic devil’s weed

Luring enticing tempting dangerous hallucinating agitated confusion
when sucked in too eagerly not knowing where and when to stop

Like belladonna which you had meant to portray the night flower
shed its shadow cast indigestible spells over your paths on earth
too short wasted rejected drowning in sorrowful blindness side-lined
from sun and sparkling stars into the wicked night of helpless evil
you withered rushed from shot to shot one too many dirty cannulas oozing

A desiccated child-woman of the night pushing and pulling from
client to client giving your sex for their money extorted by pimps on
street corners dirty sprung mattresses feeding phallic prickly bursts
of sprinkling disgust a skeleton draped in loose lucid skin fondled breasts
you opened your legs closed your shame for anti-heroic heroin

Dressed in white cotton you marvelled stone dead in lunar radiance
from your marble coffin at midnight when the bells chimed good bye
when your friend and you parents had lost their minds and only child
at the final curtain last act of resistance to the ambiguity of Luna Deflorata
vanished to fangs of white powder white pills translucent misery injected

Written at midnight 22 August 2016

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 9/14/2016 11:35:00 PM

Well written but so sad Kai. Congratulations on your placement!

Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 9/15/2016 12:48:00 AM

Thank you Connie. I appreciate that. Some flowers have the wrong shine and scent, but that is life. Sunny regards.

Jan Allison

Date: 9/14/2016 1:37:00 PM

You certainly went to a new level with this graphic poem on the flower theme Kai - sadly the dark side of drug abuse is so often accompanied with the seedier side of life to pay for their habit - many congrats kai:-) hugs Jan xx

Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 9/15/2016 12:50:00 AM

Thank you so much Jan. It is difficult to accept the downfall of friends, but I guess, that it is also part and parcel of life. Many wishes, Kai

Lu Loo

Date: 9/14/2016 1:15:00 PM

so intriguing Kai! You are very gifted and show much depth in your writing..loved this congratulations on your placement :)-luloo

Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 9/15/2016 12:50:00 AM

Thank you Luloo. Many wishes, Kai

John Fleming

Date: 8/23/2016 1:31:00 PM

Quite horrific - But compulsive reading! A fantastic write! My very best regards, Kai. :) john P.s An obvious.

Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 8/24/2016 3:04:00 AM

Thank John. Real life, hey? Many wishes, Kai