Long Lipless Poems

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Undocumented Notes On the Aftermath of a Suicide

Backward word exceptions for me 
from mothers cold lipless tongue drips lies, 
White and stagnation 
void of a life.-
Is nothing sacred mother? 
My mother? 
Is nothing pure? 
Even babies defecate and are never clean anymore. 
I fail--as she fell. 
But two eyes are better than three 
and doesn’t allow such and such’s brain to bleed. 
She had her head on the floor but she had her eye on me. 
Lips soft as a kiss and open for guests but no feelings 
there was no life there 
nothing intermission to flatten the flowers and lost.   

Further expeditions into my fragile fragmented psyche 
leads one to a temporary understanding of life 
through the perspective of one afraid of conformity 
yet change 
yet being identified as a same 
the same-ness is a blow to the ego center 
bordering on ego death 
but only by a completely Egotistico way 
you and you and you and me I you and we 
our seasons the moment we are zero: a free radical


Laundered Thoughts Wash Over Populations

beaming bleached grins of ivory predation
touching the tip of the steel heart severing love
eyeless lipless and formless feeling all life
forms wrinkled impulses warring like sexes
seeking paradise in the white exhalation of death
expanding minutes into eons of shadows feeding
cells populating the flesh of living loaves rising
being passed from mouth to grave nourishing reflections
deforming the scroll of experience scrawling live evil

…the wedded heretic
…time makes the law tick
…twitches of revolution stagnate
…in bacteria infested charters

seek the door—wider than the sky—hallowed candles sing darkened dreams…

Greek fornicators plunder Christ’s scream 
within the gray clouds of Golgotha
sail the trembling ghosts…
© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.

Thalassophobia, I Love You

they say that there's a dance hall
right beneath this lake of sawdust
where underwater towns
have gone astray
and I can hear the harpies
the bagpipes
and I can smell
the burning petals
after we set the house ablaze

the blissful ignorance
of ghosts and revolvers
is pure nonsene 
– as coup d'état of yours
still smiling distantly
but one day your goodness 
will make you lipless, my dear
and then I will lull you by
the misty weather
verdant 
fragrant
lucidly mystical
dazzling as a bell jar glance

existence matters – ad interim
and as the old gatekeeper
uses his trembling gestures
to swing the pendulum
tell me, my plain-hearted one: 
ruby red or beryl blue? 
does it really matter to you? 
with all your childish devotion

please release 
the drones

'cause thou art lost
and love is the law
love under will
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Time's a Wasting

Science improves things, so they say,
can't prove it by me, take the clock
once it swung, and cockco's played
now it's silent, no tick or tock.

Old clocks clucked each tick and each tock
tongue to roof, they made a clapping.
Once they had arms and hands and locks
now they don't even aid napping.

Mum's the word with digital clock
zipped are those lips, no face, no brow
no sinister tock from Hook's Croc
no moon shaped face, no leaping cow.

Flashing red numbers, fanned peacocks
neon in trancers, with tin man hearts
lipless automatons in stock
toss them all from your K-mart cart!

Live I say get a grandfather clock
one with a face, two arms and heart
with a pendulum swinging tick tock
tick off the sleepers screw K-Mart.
Form: Quatrain

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