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Date: 10/31/2021
Categories: approximating, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante

Bits and Pieces

Bits and pieces of your heart and soul
bits and pieces, fillet and sautéed
for the sad amusement of cruel men with mindless erections
Who snicker and grin
as they lay you down on a bed of nails
Naked and anesthetized
for the purpose of insensate insemination
s and feces, from hearts without soul
s and feces, from cruel little boys, masquerading as men,
with pointless erections, who grimace and sin, 
As they fornicate and fail
Naked and cautertized from the meaning of erotic sensations
And that is: sweet tender love and kindness
approximating Divineness
Which the sad woman is so longing for
and the little boy is running from
Categories: approximating, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Couplet


Sackcloth and Ashes

Midnight chimed day assassination, 
  sudden as a brain haemorrhage, 
  star-stabbed by psychotic pins; 
  issues aborted of carbonised wombs 
  blacked streets, tar-slithered. 
Recovering drunk, cold sobered, 
  imaged upon liquid plate glass, 
  appliances dormant and flower-pressed 
  beyond his ghost, 
  whiskey tears wept prior sins. 
Crying within for little or nothing, 
  the once embryo of the thing he became, 
  or that reflections now seem 
  more tangible of look than 
  he would ever feel again. 
Invisible sackcloth mantled the bones, 
  he wore it well, 
  his future path paved ashes 
  to some place in the dark, 
  the equation lacked love. 
So the dead can walk, he observed, 
  approximating signs of life; 
  and so well he knew the dead, 
  they whispered catechisms in his head, 
  for he only ever talked to himself.
Categories: approximating, life, lost love, sad,
Form: Blank verse

Sackcloth and Ashes

Midnight chimed day assassination, 
  sudden as a brain haemorrhage, 
  star-stabbed by psychotic pins; 
  issues aborted of carbonised wombs 
  blacked streets, tar-slithered. 
Recovering drunk, cold sobered, 
  imaged upon liquid plate glass, 
  appliances dormant and flower-pressed 
  beyond his ghost, 
  whiskey tears wept prior sins. 
Crying within for little or nothing, 
  the once embryo of the thing he became, 
  or that reflections now seem 
  more tangible of look than 
  he would ever feel again. 
Invisible sackcloth mantled the bones, 
  he wore it well, 
  his future path paved ashes 
  to some place in the dark, 
  the equation lacked love. 
So the dead can walk, he observed, 
  approximating signs of life; 
  and so well he knew the dead, 
  they whispered catechisms in his head, 
  for he only ever talked to himself.
Categories: approximating, introspection, life, sad, social,
Form: Blank verse
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