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The Landing
The aliens arrived and they read our DNA just like a book. They had no interest in our words. They sampled the oceans and its diseases, a pathology specimen from the self-destructive damsel of this solar system, an off-smelling primordial soup that has sat on the counter for too long, infested with small creatures who […]
Dimmesdale
It was his black swan No-one would have thought That empty feeling When a nice girl’s fallen But the icon of her name’s still pure All it took was a gander Obtuse, thoughts intrusive She has different faces, not moons In her eyes, no stars Only one’s surprise there’s No weeknight left to fallow Now […]
Spring
It’s spring outside A piercing ray of sun As the wind cuts right through me I’m purged of man and Full of letters sans The rise in my chest Or sunken heart The night when I was Looking up at the lamp Red through my eyelids As I lied in the dark I’ve deleted the […]
Leper
They say a man’s soul Is shown by that between his lungs But it’s the crippled trickle From a feeble mind To content on his tongue That matters Because information is power And we are all guilty ’til we’re tried Leper legion No pledge of allegiance Fear, disgust and fury Lead to leper deadhesion So, […]
A birthday
I raised you with my own saliva, words and wine Tried to imagine myself resenting you But in my mind’s eye there’s no light Your eyes are bright and your hair is ashen Like the chestnut haze of cigarettes You wrap these long arms around my body Like you knew that none were left Of […]
The mushroom prince
I’m a zebra sans her stripes A fox clad like a dog It’s a nightmare that’s recurring Sniffing death in the air Where my shovel’s buried in the ground A pair of human legs That morph past midnight A creature that runs Before it stands But what do you stand for? The rains have poured […]
Inside
I’m an antibody Destroy in haste Too much heat And too much waste I’m the saint, the sinner More leper than lover The fool I’ll crown This ill fever I’ll govern Sweating in my delirium As I think how many I’ve taken down With me, in sweaty synchrony Heavy is the head Full of cotton […]
Schoolbreak
This blood on my back It ain’t mine The bunny on my jumper, she has seen it all With her plastic button eyes I can feel your vision Vitreous as it begins to fade Do you see me now, do you see me now? Little boy, last day of school He cries grey, grip loose […]
Cotard’s summer
Because the locusts are coming And now, so am I In this eastern village nothing will be the same And everyone will forget our names as youth runs dry The seasons have changed But there’s still wisdom to find Look up at my eyes dear It’s cruel to be kind when your knees touch the […]
From the day the bigger banshee screeched
Dare not become Dare not embody The monstrous moon howler Author of tales That Freud foretold Traumatic sounds Mind numbed and ego torn I’ll keep my red riding hood on Did all a girl could do Wearing someone else’s skin Laced in, needle-heeled Stitched shut. Like a perfect fucking wound Mother dearest Eats runt who’s […]
A foreigner in your nativity
And every time you toot my horn I don my hooves My face goes red Clop, clop, into the room, I’ll saunter Make a bargain, call it sin Faustian debt letters in your bin A barn erected, wood, not tin A man never born, of woman who never… And merry that they were Around other […]
Material
Dig up the ghosts and give them words He said they’re colours or material When it’s red, coal, tar And you feel it in your shoulders He remembered a painful scowl A crushed samovar And his mother wound’s dark eyes
Human
As I palpated inside him and Pulled something out It was hot, it was still thinking Couldn’t have hurt that much I asked him who sold it to him I figured I’d try it on For size The input didn’t fit my eyes And what I heard Was even worse The scents were animalic If […]