A million dollars will shut a thousand mouths.
Forever seal black books.
Seed a million clouds.
Place bodies in swamps, swaying from meat hooks.
And far- far underground.
A billion dollars can buy 10 million souls.
Denature the entire fabric of the globe.
Chase hope and faith down the rabbit hole.
A billion dollars will promptly end investigations.
Turn the lake of truth into a blue opaqueness.
A trillion dollars will turn a bank of swans into a den of snakes.
DEEP-FREEZE ALASKA
corpses in a row
hung on meat hooks in the morgue
until Summer’s thaw
8/30/2017
Hopefully, they don't do this anymore! :0
I knew when sparks flew
From my brand in her cavern,
The friction-lit dark
Fanned the impotent fires;
The charring of juices
Hot, uric and spicy,
Flowed a lateral tango
And the hairs sluiced with life.
With a breath of exalting
The dream turned to torture,
Collapsed in a gnarling
Of dust from the grind;
When done only dying
With memory and meat-hooks
Simmered down upon skin
And the night embroiled vengeance.
Down the market where the meat-hooks gleam,
When the dawn breaks with a silent scream,
And it’s time to guide your face to home.
Another night has ended;
There’s a photograph on someone’s wall
That reminds them who you are and all,
When the future froze with grim aplomb
And saw your dreams suspended.
From the window of the Laundromat
You smoke your fags and smell a rat
The colours spin round in the drum
The clothing seems entitled;
With sighing lips and bleeding eyes
You curse into the slate grey skies
Emotions in you turning numb
The feelings are recycled.
From a cloudburst by a dying tree
The rain falls down half-heartedly
Another day has nearly passed
With nothing good arising;
The oil drums burn out in the street
Frost bitten hands, frost bitten feet,
Another day just like the last,
Why isn’t that surprising?
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