Unlocked.
trouble
looming like a monolith
will outlast us all
that feeling grows
in my stomach
when I see you
or even think about you
you’ve damaged me
prehistorically
looking into a post modern
steel future
you don’t exist
except for strange
steel structures
nobody remembers the significance
but I know
they were your hubris
he tasted of stale beer
sweet cigars
cheap lipstick
he was part of the throwaway culture
but she had picked him up
placed him in her shopping cart
she wanted to preserve the tack
put intransigence in bronze
she wore polyester proudly
strutted her trophy
throughout smoky lounges
he let himself be captured
she smelled like vanilla
Juicy Fruit gum
and his cigars
she let herself be captured
not sure at this moment
which part was real
and which part was a dream
I just know your warmth flooded me
and you were delicious
wintry blast
smacks you in the face
waking while walking
looking for life
finding absence of color
stark angles
jagged turns
echo thoughts askew
cold, still violence
rampant in the doldrums
limbs frozen in a breath
not dead but dorman
minced words like masticated meat
sticking in between teeth
for days
hot pokers left in fire too long
rusted and ruined like spangles
some shaken loose
left in the dust and shit from the circus
when it left town
rains only muddy the waters
not cleansing the palette
too late for regrets
when the abscess takes over
the whole mouth shouts out
free me!
the shrill cry swallowed by train’s howl
keep feeding the beast left behind
it’ll be sated enough, stay quiet enough
til no one remembers the urban legends
or the grainy footage
