Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Once A Month

Like super sized

like club

sandwich

double layered

self

four eyes split brained

fork devil tongue

scooping

nasty

out at people

like waking up

half hanging

out of your own mouth

and swollen, gory

being too big to fit

back in

a panic of being seen


like zoo limbs

like cages

every flesh beneath transparent

matters

cavities

it seems to the eye

but like rock like elephants

balancing for circus

on every motion

even words

which are featherweight

with liqueur

laurels on other peoples shoulders

and bouldering

unshifting

days later

apologies don’t have the brawn

to shift that


like the World

to be anti-gravity

and weightless

like everyone else

to be moving over and around

you

a litter

a turd

in the street

in the bed

in the inbox

like you

the physicality of brain dead


like sleep memory

like waking

remembering

a man paying you

for bursting his flesh

squeezing him like a pimple

a horror chorus

of slimy dove

a dream a dream thank fuck a dream

you realise upon pillow

exhausted

before the day

is even clothed


like strangled time

like mime

a sign-language synopsis

spat out by the brain

in ill-humored

epithets

that promises to rest

once the body

has spat out the blood

and booed

at you enough

to be finally

done

No comments: