truncated at once a phenom then fades for awhile that and is gone.
painted it ash and gone downtown, going there, gone
a belly turning up, a fish gasping, wanting to sink
the tide rolling in and out, a sick motion cyclical
rubbing scales off on the beach, a circle, oh
the mouth grappling with the words, several words
those and others and also oh, stiff brandy syrup, larks coughed
down, painted over in blacks and whites all the people
reaching in their pockets, a foot and a half of snow
a pocking of salts sucking water, rubbed as through
the thick skin membrane a sad satellite shrunken out of its orbit
salt, salt
the white lady, her mouth shrill, a glossed petroleum outward
a brag of beef hung on the shrug of hooks from the ceiling
clung, descended a little thin slits down to the marrow and salt
clung, a cold draft from a closed door caged that which is, was
and that which is gone and clung, clung soft finger-tipped
and up all night blackened, fed it all the days light
fed it all the nights greasy glow fed vast downward amounts
sucking dry all my brown heart, all black and starting
i took a drug, it folded me over on myself and sutured clean and black
shone the end result, a splint applied prior a broken bone
a folding over all that fine white chalk and foam down a drain,
a drone a burn a false facade the long, slow fracturing of iron
a manufactured hurt, gone and dreaming its way into a furnace
familiar, dreaming its way into an urn, the lurch of burnt metal
and usually what happens is i get drunk
and i listen to old black blues, some drums a driver
a drum muffled by a thousand pounds of thick white curd,
the guts rumbling and coughed shut, whistling the pines
where the sun dont ever shine a mess a thousand years ago
a thousand years ago and the stomach still pumping sugar
the unfeeling pump of shit, plump and black, i took a drug
and was no one, nowhere, shrugging slaughter, shrugging
that monster sucking glut glutton gutter gout gangrene
and finally ash, the lake a black gulf groaning against the beach
grown still and flat, all the first and last forever
a soft suffocation, the throat slowly shutting.