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Neo-Suicide

Creeping tendrils, fungal cordyceps, grabbing hamstrings by the bone, Stunting pain in muscled biceps, stretch as if they work alone. No matter far nor long I run, no matter time, not record, Confidence degenerates in ton, and waste is felt in effort. Mind is but contained—by signal—swiveled text from cornered row. Watching bounces—screens—too seen, in later times I shouldn’t know. I can hear now lampposts hum, against my windowpanes, Whispered effervescent hymns, “'tis late you scattered brains.” No Signal floats in silent strokes, laughing at my gaze, Whose lack of locus out of focus, undeveloped micros—soft amaze. Operating systems; hidden files twitch betwixt glitched fingers' flick. Tracked strokes, glued electric hitch, to melt around the wick. Which witch or whose hurt vocal pitch, has hounded throats sucked dry? Mine own is cuckold by songman’s itch, to stitch this lyric higher. Vyvanse tickles subvocalization: Schizophrenic telepathy. Hearing echoed me(s) in nation: "We’re better as entelechy." I want a better world, I see it in my mind, When I have the energy in bursts, to see what’s left behind. “We’re more than this," says drunken me, to the overdosed drugged mind. “We’re less than this," says sober me, to the hopeless handed kind. From which does hope arise; the latter: Joy's annihilation? Or the former, and hides inside of Anger's continuation? I’m lost inside a tesseract, four dimensions fighting war. Between the self-suicide pact; 'tis but a wish for lore.

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Date: 1/1/2024 7:30:00 AM
i adore this poem, the stanza "i hear the lampposts hum, against my windowpanes" is spectacular. silence isnt a truly silent thing. the utilization of glitches in the experience of depersonalization, your evocative language, the magnification of substances in turmoil, all very poignant. beautiful.
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Date: 1/26/2023 4:59:00 PM
DAMN! Son! Powerful, love the funky dark imagery. There is more than one phrase I love to highlight but this is the best: “ I can hear now lampposts hum, Against my window panes, Whispered effervescent hymns” I think I going to steal this. ?? Just kidding but it is inspiring, will end up at one point in some form of configuration in the future in a poem because my brain like a trap that remembers, reuses without thinking. Reading new stuff of yours! Thanks for the inspiration!
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B. Joseph Fitzsimons
Date: 1/26/2023 7:32:00 PM
Hey thanks, P.T., I usually use The Soup to submit my feelings (usually dark ones) to feel less alone in them, and reading others’ work and responses such as your own is such a safe haven from that loneliness. There’s 8 billion of us now so my feelings will never be my own anyways, so have away at the words by using them if you want, id be honored if you did really (im sure I’ve repeated something someone else said by accident since that’s how speaking and being a person is in general). just let me know if you figure out how to turn them into money lol
Date: 1/24/2023 11:21:00 PM
just greatly penned; nice to read
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B. Joseph Fitzsimons
Date: 1/26/2023 9:22:00 AM
Thanks a lot Mahtab! This place makes feeling sad much easier.

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