Eat you my heart for
it is paltry, stringy and yearns
to eat the world in turn.
So I gave it away once, to
a woman on the street whose fingers
were wrapped in arabesque gold and silver
curls that were their own kind of stylised gorgeousity
and present only on the other side of madness;
a friend, when we sat hip to hip
trying to define our own kind of reality
sharp mirror shards as our toes dig into
warm crannies of a couch overlaid with a tender blanket;
another friend, another continent away and another and another
and another and another and another one too;
and time and time again to all my loves
in that one moment of trut
Heaven knows:
i do not know where I should go
from the here and now
to the tomorrow
during these midnight ramblings
along serpentine veins tracing
the corridors of the mind :-
age-old, dusky with disuse or
forming like tender skin:
Glistening, pink and tender.
in mornings I wake
to the tepid taste of peeling skin and
yellow nails coating my tongue -
the unpleasant tang of honesty that
lingers after twilight impressions.
It is written that
i will not know where I should go.
There are only morning routines:
of toothpaste and the baptism of
the showerhead, washing
away the phelgmy aftertaste of the
yester-day as tomorrow
we are not strangers you and i
so why is it so difficult
to c.o.n.n.e.c.t.
the sound system up
in this hallowed silence
beamed, transmitted
to a live audience.
not strangers. so it is strange
to grasp at words that are
stuck in the awful transition between
fish lips and bubbles.
strangers. to the point that
my words seem to reach you
only after wading through
thick marshes of half-formed,
tentative mutants of jumbled syntax
and awkward invisible pregnant pauses
that lie there heavily, fat elephant seals
drunk on caramel.
i forgot.
what used to be: a direct hotline
phone to ear, lips to phone and
sentiment signed, se
we are not strangers you and i
so why is it so difficult
to c.o.n.n.e.c.t.
the sound system up
in this hallowed silence
beamed, transmitted
to a live audience.
not strangers. so it is strange
to grasp at words that are
stuck in the awful transition between
fish lips and bubbles.
strangers. to the point that
my words seem to reach you
only after wading through
thick marshes of half-formed,
tentative mutants of jumbled syntax
and awkward invisible pregnant pauses
that lie there heavily, fat elephant seals
drunk on caramel.
i forgot.
what used to be: a direct hotline
phone to ear, lips to phone and
sentiment signed, se