Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Shame's Pseudonym

I've clenched my teeth for so long,
I've carved lamentations into the enamel membranes.
I've been vacant, I've been patient.
Well, I've been buying without payment.
And I am impelled, no, rather IMPALED
by dreams of wires and glass, lurid and transparent
-Lucid but not apparent.
And I am so aware of your very scent,
and of how the clocks harmonize with fruit flies.
Now please, will you open up your eyes!
which are without necessity, always full of surprise.
I saw you pull the air from your wind instruments,
like some humorous and awkward vengeance.
and we danced with gracious spines that twirled and withered like vines-
on drive-way concrete, at night-
abashed and blushing,
when we were hardly touching.


You sure are something.

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