object
be silent
not signed about
take the present
it a meaningful moment
at that cornered life
you scram
behind the bent
stand she and he hide
out
for once and for naught
a single ounce
you got left to sell
comin in a center
miss perfect
deflecting death
shirt coats end polish
pranks and bank shot calling
from my starched abandon
lifetimes no skranton
big world owners and rulers
standard operator error
get blues when?
so, this is what life is about
no use to scream
no use to shout
this is what life is about
the cream floats to the top
the top to taste
first
slaking the thirst
of what life is about
but the cream
is but a whisper
the thinnest layer
the body yet good
is mere staple food
and if not used
quickly, quickly
it curdles and splits
knowledge and wits
yet curdled life
is not spoiled
it is an acquired taste
nothing to waste
so don’t pinch your face
at this thickened grace
enjoy every bit
not knowledge but wit
for wisdom lies
where milk spiller cries
Sour Milk
Sinister lies
Diabolical intent
My Slow demise
Curdled blood
Serenade me with your death rattle
Acidic love roaming
Inside your wicked soul
Acid rain in my raspberry tea
No redemption for what cannot be saved
Venomous fangs shredding the placenta
That makes you human
Blood Curdled at The Chilling Quill 3
The night is too quiet for breathing
The faces form
Swelling from the pitch oily; floats
Mouthless screaming
Into monstrous caverns
Where fang-ed teeth stalactite
On slavering tongues
Cold suffocation jabs pillowed rocks
Deep into racing erratic heart
And clamours the air on fingers bent
With scratches awake on a coffin lid
The weight of movement
To slow to lift
Raise your head and scuffle muted threats
Dead hot blankets
Of fevered dreams and swollen hands
Push you over the edge
And tight in your throat
Breaks screeching into a panicked run
With tied legs you twist
Reclining pressed and pushed to escape
But no freedom formulates
As struggling madness reiterates
Pressure barking
At the corners of eyes
Mouthless
Screaming
Screaming
Mouthless
Struggle
Shake
And eyes
Suddenly
Open
You are awake
Blood Curdled at The Chilling Quill 2
And when the darkness falls
What sleep will there be
Save in dire dreams
The nightmare murder moves closer
On prickling skin
Balking and gagging
Left to the suffocation of sheets
And dripping sweat
When the darkness falls
Sleep there will be
But hunted on wide rimmed starings
On a chill pitch glue blackness
Shuffle tarot card footsteps
Only the skeleton creek of the shutters lynch
Breaks on the beaded pores of mumbled prayers
Our father who art in the dark
Settles fitful slumberous breath
On a vampires teeth
Raked the burning ashes of cold eating eyes
‘Tis the middle of the night
Only the undead ivory glistens
The forgotten blood stains
When darkness falls
Sleep there will be
In dire dreams
Nightmare murder moves closer
Blood Curdled at The Chilling Quill
Sanctuary I prayed
Feet stumbling at a wet dank alter
Crumbled brick the skeletal shell
Of ancient cathedral
Safety
Mausoleum in the gloom of battered drips
Their ghostly quill of written blood
And zombie skins of parchment
Write their movement
On the clammy tips of sweat
Don’t even breathe
As the screaming prickling hairs stand stiff
As the chilling curdled down my neck
I am alone
Cold swirls fog phantoms in my mouth
And bitter teeth bite at one time warmth
As every veil and smack of dark
Stammers of cold footsteps
Cold stone to grind my fist
At Death
Dead
Un-Living
Un-Dead
Footsteps
Approaching
Hunters Moon haunted its taste for blood
The cowl of foxes
In midnights canine witchcraft
Thought to stampede on shattered stain glass
And spit the gargoyles fallen head
In spells of horror demolished
Sainted tiny fire I prayed
Sanctuary
From the tombs of dusted bones
Let me sleep
Let me sleep
Behind burning eyes
And drag from the crag the whimpering prize
Of terror
Let me edge on the ripping dawn
Never to rest on burial ground
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