Nemesis Bastards
the heavens had fallen
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot in the past the other on the gas
while his muse plucked the arrows
sticking out of his chest like harp strings
a mythical epic tearing into the heavens
one free mind in touch with its inertias
not exactly death by tickling
jiggling the ultimatums like **** on a treadmill
her radiant pussy lit the heavens like a comet
which doesn't come up in my spell checker either
anyhow charmed into her black widow arms
in front of a massive stone altar
the peasants were praying to their media gods
the sky was torn off its foundations
and cast under the hooves of their black unicorns
it is merely the era of detail
which merely requires confrontation every time
the nemesis bastards print their news with hammers
Beauty's retarded sister Justice screams
laughing at the improbabilities
of a longish gauntlet running puzzle
right when you think you have it
they got you by the lips
the nemesis bastards
a shelf full of pain killers for your every move
dead as a toad under the traction wheel
I guess it's because rain is simpler than love
guess again was her habitual greeting
so we pounded until the bed broke
from the seething energies of speculation
spitting boiler sparks nostrils filled with soot
I saw through it all every granule
being a child of undulating infinity
life is discovery in every banal instant
which makes it not so banal
seen from under a rustling riverbank willow
the wheat stalks were golden with fruit
and nostalgia for the future
so I knock wood and count cushions
still mortal after all these tears
a monkey hard at the mulberry bush
an occasional sitcom laugh track ******
arise ye wreched derilects
from trailer park to metropolis
into an orchard of clear-eyed nakedness
I promise you a JacuzzI spa
filled with the juice of nectarines
from the semi-divine Army of Grace
on every street corner
a beer soaked rebuttal follows
while we feast upon the carrion of
plagiarists and Kafka magistrates
dear Belzebub I want it all
but over a very long period of time
the world needs a gigantic Spring Break
an earnest burlesque before God's breezy perch
my head is now a gravitational anomaly
From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.byethost32.com/
Copyright © Walter Alter | Year Posted 2016
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