Sarx ( for SAMO!)

by the mingo

Posted to Poetry on 2003-01-08 06:15:00

SAMO!, before i cut this thing loose i wanted to tell you that i read your poem(a dark thing)backwards, forwards, & sideways. i picked up every word & looked beneath them. i milked every syllable. i looked down every street & every alley and i could not come to the end of it. righteous!
i’d like to buy you a drink. bombs away!

Sarx (for SAMO!)


the flesh –
… a silhouette
of spirit & soul standing
not far apart and
backlit in a vast room .

each looking at the same thing
but each having a
different dream of it .

the one, of men chasing a man
where the bicycles, abandoned,
have fallen over . their rifles pointing
upside down & backwards towards
their own heads .

the other, of women who
touched & then played with
invisible light fearless of
their mirrors .

both dreams are real,
neither is true .

the flesh –