When

by shishi

Posted to Poetry on 2002-11-03 02:28:00

This is is the first thing I’ve posted here, so it’s probably fairly shit compared to some of the gorgeousness you people scoop out of your amazing skulls. Any comments would be really appreciated.

–SB



When tears are congealed in crystally lumps beneath puffy purple eyelids
When fingernails are soft and jagged and edged in white protein muck
When hair sleeps in matted hay bundles beside the crumpled letters which can’t be read beyond the thousandth time
When shoulders shudder limp defeated round and haggard
When chest of hairy curls slumps in anticipation of gravity’s persuasiveness; seedy and dimpled
When rectum bleeds from barely digested jagged turds passed through mazes of rubbery tubular plumbing
And deadly Monster can no longer be coaxed from flaccid complicity.
When heart and guts and lungs all splayed in isolation
And soul wrenched from the grip of icy fist fighting beyond desperation to prevent the savage theft
When mucous coated brain limply sludges about in knocked out loaded skull
When cells in last ditch effort of harmonium and solidarity seize remaining shards of functioning
And implode in glorious gluttinous unison.
And weary dry aching slit of mouth whispers final bitter echoes of words to hateful ugly universe.

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