For My Psychiatrist... by schriftsteller, literature
Literature
For My Psychiatrist...
Your word like
a father who didn’t
love Hitler more
or the face of GOD
transfixed to a telephone—
the unnerving process
as a lasting prisoner
in some Victorian,
Wilde-esque compound
without a view—
only the images of the mind
that crackle on the corners
& the days having
no meaning—
just abstract concepts
warped in greyed time.
Like a sacrament
to something holier
than spilled inkwells
or a drumbeat
from a past life,
I put the tools
to different uses—
ones of beauty
or appeasion
instead of numeric
etchings on the walls.
I mantra your
sentence structure
into deeper consciousness—
hum my body
until
they had said,
long before i met you
that the truth is known for its
characteristic
punch in the gut;
it picks at the skin
on your forehead till it
peels off like the zest
of a pregnant orange,
bitter on your fingers
but so sweet
on your tongue.
pain
is a typical symptom
of truth but
no one ever said
that you would exhaust
the sweetness
by the time it was
my turn to listen.
I need a third bluebox by aWay-with-knives, literature
Literature
I need a third bluebox
I need a third bluebox
it sounds fucked, doesn't it?
with my cottage cheese and soymilk;
the cans of me and my guests
I fill more than one a week
I need a third bluebox because these dicks
only come, fortnightly;
they don't even take the glass.
I live in a "smart city"
I've worked recycling, and the dozens of quarts and wine bottles
the cavemen who run the trucks, have thrown back on my lawns,
could solve some ills.
we need an intelligent city, if we're going to destine children,
to anything better than moving away,
so as to escape,
paying off our parents' deficits
I need some more blueballs, so I'll be a month on a boat,
away from her.
day
swimming in paint
virgin genius unbathed
just can't seem to lock-in
the right electrical impulse
mosaic organs inflammed
unmuzzled and lame
and constrained by this neophyte
endocrine system
that's been flushed with synthetic religion
as my crawling skin fends for itself
a mild beast on the shelf
comptrolling contagions
and my decathect screams
of endless cracks in the paulestrine's pavement
i am awed by man's ability to create
inference,
events repotted
in explicit symbolism,
bragging divinity in the face
of yesterday's mathematicians,
a garden on the storyteller's tongue.
Secondhand Moonlight by Emerald-Alexandria, literature
Literature
Secondhand Moonlight
A dingy harem, scattered with junkies,
Stinking of lust and dusty Forget-Me-Nots
A black-veiled, crimson-lipped beauty
Night-haired and spacey-eyed
Purple painted nails laced with cigarette smoke
And a stubby cigarette laced with moonlight
Skulks to my side and burns a hand on my thigh
Age is creeping up her legs
And her panties smell of other men
And a bold-faced tattoo of last month's rent
Is stamped across her feverish forehead
Paper-thin desperation and two mouths to feed with a top hat on top
But the champagne tastes like honey and smells like jazz
You want to dance, Baby Girl?
So I jive with the Shadows and their Whores
Choking o
She is
electrolytes shivering
off winter blue satellites orbiting
on ruptures in his arteries and wisteria
drenching his senses [clawing] dirt neath her
nails, trembling skeletal structures as
the stars scream in [unbalance]
churning mythology and
basking in meteor
showers
"Good Morning"
I read those two words aloud
Imagining your voice
Your lips whispering
Them gently into my ear
And then I'd smile
And say "Good Morning" too
As I'd let myself remember
Just how much i loved you
But now I look down
And all I see are two measly words
Sent from your fingers
Instead of your lips.
And while I tell myself
Those two words are enough
That your love and mine
Can traverse a hundred miles
A thousand miles
And still appear just as strong
Just as pure
I can't
And I worry, I fear
That my love may not
Be enough to keep you happy
And that one day
Just the memory of you
Won't be enough
To keep my tears away.
And every time
cockmasters, yes, in the sense that a man over the years becomes a master of his cock, in the sense that poets are all just feeling themselves up with words, in the sense that we aspire to master that craft and this is sort of a support group for that, yeah I'd say we're cockmasters.