Sabotage

You got sick by ten o’clock
I held back your hair
Through rose-colored glasses
My thousand-yard stare

Lost control with a smile
You fell into your bliss
Satiate your appetite
With a smuggled kiss

Feelings muddled, heresy
I try not to begrudge
But envy has no prejudice
An inexorable judge

Amid the perfume of spiced rum
I prayed to Gods of old
To shroud this thin accord of ours
Within a veil of gold

You stared, alert, into my eyes
Pale fingers on my skin
Faintly hear me muttering
A dark, forbidden hymn:

“Sabotage, immolate,
Summon firestorm,”
Cause burning in my apathy
Is all that keeps me warm.

Come and Go

Keep it going, please, just a little longer
They say that distance makes these tired bones grow stronger
But I just wanna feel your oil burn my skin
It’s tempered chocolate melting in a cup of gin

Yet seeing all the time we lost is making me crazy
Just pack it up in nettle leaves, call it a daisy
Spent many weeks on worried streets thinkin’ of you,
So let’s meet God on top of Father’s hallowed pew

Now light up both our Spirits, start forgetting names
We’d stop it but we both like playing tired games
I don’t care ’bout your sister or your offspring cat
We came here for the bounty and, my dear, that is that

I know it’s bad to feed the beast, I know it’s all lies
But even Jesus woulda thirst for each of your thighs
Let’s just keep it cordial, there’s no need to be sappy
Who knows, one day you might make me a little bit happy.

Sails

This love that we both cradle
Is fast, but calm to us
The hours, they seem unstable
A feeling we’ve come to trust

When day turns to lifetime
We ask, should we say no?
Sweetheart, it’s not a landmine
Step back and let it go.

I don’t have time to remember
What the coal and the embers
Felt like without you

When the albatross is heavy
And the surge is at the levy
I will put in the work

Darling, take the helm with me
Take this ship out to the sea
And raise the sails.

Cryptic Nonsense

Without time tossing, turning, trailing work into pure sleep
Our meager eyes behold us to a lonely concrete keep
When constant trials bring us into forlorn rocky roads
We sometimes get the break we need to learn our conscious folds.

We strip away at wires and the scabbards at our backs
With thunderous applause and happy jackals turning black
A moment without iron surely wouldn’t be too much
Yet one small step for man, you’ll say, is never quite enough.

When wringing out a stream of plight as dense as rotten scales,
A satin cloth drifts down upon the sickened tall boy’s tales.
Let shrieks (let tonic!) sip you from the worker’s ghostly glow,
With star-born eyes ahead of lust – that Jesus, he should know!

Deep

When the truth fell from your lips,
I wanted desperately to hide it;
I had already scraped the veneer off my
lightly guarded morals ’til blood dripped
down your naked legs.

You gave yourself to me atop lies
laid bare on a stained mattress,
tongues curled in warm mist,
the ebb and flow of fiery ego
floating in the carnal Deep.

Was it spite, that we didn’t run,
or lust without incredulity?
Abandon the thought, eyes spoke.
Thus, led by pain and weightless by truth,
we dissolve together, just once more.

Golden Days

Blacktop dreaming
Hoping that the sun will stay
A tug on sweaty clothes
Beckon small hands to play
Wind-drawn scent
Summer and ocean spray
Sweet ice to taste
While the blue violets sway
Earthen shades close
Softened sheet, mom’s crochet
We hope not to sleep
Through the next golden day.

You Will Be Forgotten

You will die feeling isolated,
trapped in a society
you don’t understand.

It will push you
further and
further
into that cramped corner
you’ve backed yourself into,
struggling to breathe among
better humans
than you.

You’ll huff that stubbornness
like paint thinner
until you’re dead,
with a rotten family who hates you
standing over your
lonely corpse.