Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The Fourth Sentence 20170924

Branded knee pads for geriatric billionaires
Church of the publicly exposed Hollywood photo-op contagion
The Orange Fascist carnival barker outed the white
Don’t you go talking about people’s mamas

The B word more offensive than the N word
Sound of ratings plummet and discharge squawk talk
Healthcare bill limp dick in Congress to a crotchety Vietnam vet
Infighting the Reds and to Daddy My Feet Hurt President Humperdink

That sign of unity put out by Commissioner Go To Hell
Is, “How Long does Jerry Jones Botox injected transplanted baby buttocks flesh suit for jowls have to hold this pose midfield at the altar of Monday Night Football?”
Ok until the Viagra ad is prepped for break

What about next week and the hereafter…
The 400 years and systematically racist criminal justice system
Nah be grateful we gave you a moment on our reality show
With fists, bench seats, linked arms, and knees

This weekend you had your out to misconstrue
That this was about people’s mamas
Not Philando Castile getting his chest blown out through a strapped seat belt
With a pink flower booster seat with Ms. Reynold’s daughter within target range

On Video for who’s world?
Time lapse remap photo op for sports cares
Flag and nation and addressing the violence of a nation’s military
Imbued into the violence of a nation’s militarized police

So, Pres. Snake-oil Suites Salesman,
“Do you believe there are unimportant people?”

America first flag on a Budweiser can and misconstrued Bruce Springsteen’s
White T, Blue Jeans, and Red cap folded into a back pocket

Bruce wrote page 314, “More than ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, inspired by Bobby Muller and Ron Kovic, I wrote and recorded my soldier’s story. It was a protest song…It was a GI blues, the versus an accounting, the choruses a declaration of the one sure thing that could not be denied…birthplace. Birthplace, and the right to all of the blood, confusion, blessings and grace that come with it. Having paid body and soul, you have earned, many times, over, the right to claim and shop your piece of home ground.”

Or does the Boy Born in the Faberge Bubble
Just hear the drumbeat and hi-tempo and clap
Like “I was born in the USA too.” Shut up about politics
Translation stop making me hold up a mirror

Second verse of Woody’s “This Land is Your Land”

“In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

I'm not even going to ask you to go listen to Chuck D... 

Shit show Same Show
Let’s see what you do after the highlight reel is dim?
After the hurricane like W for Katrina or Hypo-tweet for Maria
Madre, mother, B Word, Grab a pussy

U.S. Citizens Puerto Rico, Palante, who counts? 
Bankrupt Golf property, debt, colored bodies
Take care of Wall Street, equity prices
Mr. Marmalade Mar a Largo, got time for a round of 18?

Dashcam, shown in court, hold away from public.
Three People. Three sentences.

Your brake lights are out.
I’m not pulling it out.
Did you just kill my boyfriend?

Courtroom. No fourth sentence
No justice. No Peace
Billionaires kneeling, arm-locking now
Where are you putting your money about that fourth sentence? 

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Great Expectations

Hiatus, year of, purgatory writing enclave into books
Away from poems into the mustard gas
I do not want to be me
The coughing activist into protest of having to be a person

Hazy fuzz vision detachment to identity
Tethered animal sexuality and the vehicle nature of a body
To evacuate the cab for a few years
The hustle intellectualization into other people’s libraries

Finding body parts in my breakfast cereal
Slipping teeth and bones
Blood tests for diseases there is no way I could have
Sponge-like to the emotions of yoga mats and barrooms

Sequester and wrestle with the alienation
Parents aging into who is going to wipe the fecal matter lottery
Closet John Prine large size t-shirt father insisted on purchasing for me
Told him I wear a medium and he said, “No you don’t.” Corner pile. Never worn

All these great expectations
“And I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my first wife
Everybody leaves and I’d expect as much from you”

Tumbleset language and that pregnant look in her eye
When you know you want to be excited but that blood is a bomb
“Everybody leaves, so why wouldn’t you?”

Misunderstandings in the street, switchblade versus a glass of water
Shatters and slits and the quiet spits out chalky incisors
Dumb mouth, filed down fingernails and nothing to touch for another year
Learn it again love's natural end is a waterboard drink 

Silence draining from a temple, absence like a ballpein hammer  
Mailbox name changes, looking at the dirt in nailbeds
Flooded city streets and yellow one a.m. post bar lights
Kiss on a public road and the white mire of a Toyota Corolla

Crumble loose-leaf scribble into a trash bin
Whiskey and a morning shave cut it off and see what remains
Drop of blood trying to remember the last lucky thing I ever did 

All these great expectations
“And I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my old life”
“Everybody leaves, so why wouldn’t you?”

Love myself, but I don’t. Trust a friend, but I don’t
Unroll breathe and rip off this naked skin
Timeframe mind games and I swear I want to let you in
Stand with key clockwise to open and watch you run

Games I never learned at fifteen
Coming back again in the meat market
Trinkets and lamps lit up implants
Like a cyborg I was supposed to be

Drill in the metal and mine out the blood
Say the old stories until the tongue blots out the sum
Wake up, shake up, drive out and walk down the strip
Stare into a boutique window and wash the glare over me

Reflections, mentions, and what was never there to be
Television on as bar couples laugh at Kevin Hart
Ed Sheeran playing overhead
Keep walking home to an empty desk with Pablo Neruda and Anaïs Nin

Keyboards and hiatus, deleting accounts, unemployed
Time to figure out, why did I bother
Orwell’s rules and pretentious diction into insular books
No one will read like a script

Years ticking an underfunded pension
Use up the reserve to write and celebrate bankruptcy with a gunshot
Considerations of puzzles I don’t care much to solve
Dead kids and silence lives in that spot over hills

Countdown and mowed sounds of what I had to give
Best was never quite good enough to keep that look for long
Drawn back, drawn down into midnight’s siren song
Baby, there is a darkness, an infinite, and this sparkly fizz never made much sense to me

Not that you wanted, but if you had I imagine I’d have fucked it up  
Waiting for you to get bored with me
Car gone, word blood, rambling into empty sheets
That side of the bed is an unlined horizon

Chest wound stitched up with solo trips to the grocery
Two a.m. typing and C.I.A. whistleblowing
To find something else to give a damn about
The liquid of waiting for what never heals

Love the whole damn thing, just try to love the whole damn thing  

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