Two Dollops

'rage against the machine'
is there no autotune here?
splay the engine open
let us see the machination
of the drive that delivers us
to our deaths
flesh fades and reddens
according to the fuel
anemic underworld
we bathe in your weakness
and drink to your sapping
purple purple purple
red and blue
love and deprived
oxygen masks
and pills and urine
the coverlet of a saviour
seeks to be laid upon me

legs move
in time with the swing
[it holds dreams of the alive]
each forward
and each back; a rocking
and waiting is a gift
she cherishes
a step away from pain
in the middle of rasp rasp
a wind arrives to listen
trying to replace
the stagnant pond
that lay in her heart
popping the bubbles
the spiders remain
drawing to the warmth
of her time-rocked legs
listen; the drum continues to play
vinyl on the last groove

shalome � 2005

gone; berrying
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