death’s hymn / an ode to disease
escape hindered / mired in desire
butchers lined in meat’s procession /
that the blood might cleanse /
genitals swelling and volleying
for position / the bells ringing
in the halls of surrender / the soft
insanity / seductive and forgiving/
ape spit shining in the orifice of dreams /
funerals of joy / bedding down heavy
with lipstick smeared and eyes turned back
to the excess of abandon /
because the dark there pleasures /
deep as the menstrual ruins /
our cavernous nature /
pearls of semen pulsing
beneath flesh / taxed and stretched./
the occupation of deliverance /
irrational fears entwined into the braided ropes of our
denial / limp bodies piled one atop the other
maggot blankets of slithering suffocation
wet beds of shame / the arbitrary betrayal of instinct /
mind against compulsion / fever forcing fire
into submission / the reeling thoughts
left to their own mischievous devices /
and the absolute coffins of finality
smug and convinced / buried and inarguable
the death of being contorting / the trembling
limbs of reaching and reaching....
eyes into wells, souls into hells....
fumbling and groping in the dark
tiring and slipping downward
in the dark....
seeing....finally seeing....clearly
in the dark.
