Dolphin Kick Electric

peony grey
over white foam
grunge distort of splash
confused noise
seeking truth
smooth flesh
tightened skin
thick
protective
droplets disperse
become one
wall of music
perfect angst
morbid beauty

Painted

lips unmoving
flaking white
chapped
cold unnerving
splintered
raw
painted blue eyelids
blinking in disgust
pursed lips
anticipating disappointment
failure looming
disapproving looks
from pinpoint pupils
dooming
assuming
condemning joy

Dare the Ruler

Shake my resolve
Do as I say
I am to be obeyed
Don't talk
Electrical-tape corpse
Pasty-skinned pariah
Flaky & stiff
Mannequin
Transluscent & smudged
Dingy doll-wig hair
Knotted & chopped
Terrifying clink of steel
Smell of leather and sugar
Pink and sweaty
Drink it
Choke on it
If it is my last
So be it yours

Down

Flow like a gush of blood
Knowing the only path
Gravity giving no options
9.8 m/s squared
Nine point eight meters per second squared
The earth like a mother with a bowl
ready to catch whatever her sick child presents, exudes
Knowing it will come
Accepting it
Bound by universal law
A pact with nature
A winking knowledge
Only a secret until it happens once
Everything falls.

anticipation

purple bridge
hazy twilight
blue night
waiting to come
hiding stars
giggling in anticipation
of the show
the rising curtain
of moonlight
splash of fuschia
the last warmth
fading, fading
looming dark
quiver in the chest
almost imperceptible
slice of dread
fleeting second
of fear
intensity of hatred

Crumbling

Fall away like mortar
cracked with age
chalky residue
still trying to summon strength

supports sagging
crackling
each shift producing fear
fear it will give way to the stress
fear of collapse
of what will be in the rubble
of what will be destroyed
beauty obliterated

Life permanently damaged
An invalid
mongoloid
cripple
Like a burn victim
Paper-thin snake-skin
too ugly to ignore
stare
whisper
giggle

I was once whole

Unpunished

Best of luck unburning the flesh
undoing the injuries
reviving the rotting corpse
un-fucking the child
All the best as you penetrate the flesh of the innocent
and ask forgiveness
penance beyond words
irreparable
You who wound pay with guilt
"un" does not exist
It is done.
No sucking back the carbon dioxide that allowed the words to be created
No Superman to spin the earth & undo the events
The fucked child rarely is whole again
The fucked child NEVER forgets.