Friday, July 31, 2009

And towards a finality...

There will be
No more poems
Written
With adolescent sperm
And
Heart's blood.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

A Day...

When angels tap on my forehead,
The late I
drowns in a corpse's bathwater...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Theorem on Love

In the moist clutch of a taciturn termagant,
The mural man writhes in a cold pond of silence –
Immersed in mar and
Unrepentant of sins committed in dreams.

Serenely chronic endearments graze the floor;
A corpse
And a lacuna of wartime eyes
Panting paranoiac affirmations of truths –
Truths clogged in the dry-rot of a room.

The wind confides their secrets to the traffic;
Glass beads and tears shipped along eye-shores –
Eyes that could not feed a prisoner’s thirst,

Yet,
Love was felt an institute of repugnance;
Execrable excuses treading their bed-post –
Imbecile hearts poisoned by fires of felicities;
And other penalties of love’s unconscious conquest.

A day towards a new reside…

An incendiary peal of church-bells in chorale – Sunday morning in the junk-room of a scotched country-side. We are near a line of tropic – and today, hitchhiker worshippers flock the heat blizzards of winter for sakes of charities. Piety hangs like rags on flags poles of cheap hotels; somewhere a city miser yawns after a night of binges with trailer park hoodlums and highway prostitutes. The fun is worship here; virgins know a rewards of heaven dick bound – reveling in farm foolery with drunken truck-drivers.

We are nearing a praetorian town – a signpost carved in grim letters that destined my past schooling: SETTLERS – an ink-blot on a map to tatters; a former reformatory, agricultural landscape. I pubed incarcerated there for 2 stolid years – boarded with louts and troubled clans from my arrested age. Young and initiated into cotton-picking and animal husbandry. A shiver of recollections. I recall riding those crop strewn plains with my father after gambling bouts in some austere resort slots – listening to Maria Callas – loses quelled by the night’s staccato silences and inaudible sights. Star tails of white stripes crushed by fugitive wheels – those were ritual dare-devil moves swerved around gravel roads and straight, yet narrow.

The normative radio dawns from far-off casinos, belched fed with machine diets from 24 hour parlors – dead foods and coolers from a sea of bleeping souls. I lived a phantom then, memories layered in cinder of conquered ambitions. Metallic anguish of a pot-hole jerked automobile jolts me from the reverie and soon I glut my mind upon tales yet to foretell my sojourn among those I left five years prior. And now that the pervasive hooting of another ghetto idiom, languished prints of concealed nostalgia takes tide beneath the excrescences on my taut skin. Selfishly I realize I love that penitentiary, but age betrays often such many of memoirs. Once near the purple blossoms clogging drains – at those street crossings of a friendlier city, I adorn my archives with the light of inquisitive fingers nibbling my soiled soul.

Inevitably, the black of pennilessness will assail me still – in the glare of new millipede street havoc. Every newcomer does eventually loll along with freaks of this wild rhythm toned by dry-bread hoarse intestines and the languid burn of fresh water on an empty tripe. Yet, I have returned to these fangled left-over visages of this mannequin city – waging my raw war like a draft in that geography of earthbound, stolid faces painting each day’s wake bloody. I am here, bilious with uncertainty and groped into a labyrinth of my uncontrollable tomorrows – at thirty, wishing that I in wretched penury would have died at birth, than to traverse the silted cobble of life’s famished paths.