transcendental meditation, slipping through the veil, floating through the commonality of luscious acruements and sadistic sacraments, the void and time lines of dimensional abnormalities one step out of phase, congruent inconsistencies

sticky and sated, plated on copper with silver piping, tasting of blood and dreaming of supple lips, the fragrance of sweaty ultimatums, chores to be done, laundry to be hung, beaten like a rug and left to fend for itself, emoted, demoted and passed up for promotion
devoted and exploited all while renovating abandoned homeless shelters, scraping the old layer of paint to reveal an older layer of demonic sigils, an older layer just beneath revealing the name of an eternity too finite, esoteric and foolproof, proven inept and accidentally gentrified, terrified, rarified and super sized

two cheeseburgers, a milkshake and nine orders of varying cries, maybe just a salad for me, grand mal ceasar, croutonian physics, hint of apathetic vinaigrette, gratuitously sprayed with neurotic nuances and drizzled with marrow, pull forward for your total, second window, second chance, tangential trails of tried and true treachery

symphonic renderings of eight bit classics, broadcast through tinny speakers, bounced off little bones suspended in liquid, transmitted into impulses, electronic spurts from the alien overlords, signs of life and signals of never ending pain, all decoded and reloaded onto vinyl and played on a loop of static and claimed to be the origin of man’s inadequacies,

trapped and mapped into star charts and used to find the center of miniature golf courses the universe wide, half off wednesdays, couples play for free, bring the kids, pets and any parasitic hosts, leeches and lecherous bioliminescent algae, scraped and taped to the ceiling for inspiration in a time of unreasonable drought, dramamine and insular insulin injections into the pancreatic promise of sweet and subtle ferocity

two by two, marching to the beat of a dyslexic drummer, time signatures and melodic interludes juxtaposed against the angular face of granite representations of metabolic and metaphysical horrors, out of thyme, no sense of rime in the frigid autumnal blast, permafrost and exorbitant cost, leprosy and armadillo seashells, prepubescent promises of a never ending winter

brand new box of crayons, all grays and browns, flesh tones and sepia daydreams, salmon, carnation, and reluctant rose, sketches of nautical scenes suspended in time, pirates and crewmen, buccaneers and barnacles, shivered and timbered, limber and suffering from vitamin deficiency, patchy skin and empty sockets, exposed nerves and jerky mechanical movements, like a puppeteer with parkinson’s, an auctioneer with a slight stammer but only when he tries to speak aloud

legionaires, lecherous lessons and veterans of foreign whores, commonalities and cause and affection, cautionary and cradled in the bosom of blatant byzantine bereavement, jaundiced like the pages of a diary, scribbled mementos and secret thoughts, etched and outlined, pithy remains and perpendicular scars, enunciated in tongues, tinged with potpourri and contrite in inexplicable luxury

auditory ossicle, hammer, anvil and stirrup, hallucinating corpulent crustaceans, the ebb and flow of the tide, lunar intention and errant gunfire, an arrow in the heart of the matter, in the heart of the mayor, in the start of the matrimonial incandesence, intentional intestinal linings and tripe, tried and true, beaten, bloody and in search of something new, nothing knew, altruistic, artistic, green thumb and blackened toes, bitten by frost and drifting, dandruff and snowflakes, a blizzard of insecure stability

a tulip, a perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophyte, planted upside down and showered with inflection, inconsistent, transcendental mediation, medication, elaboration, and the timeless scent of robotic tears, to sleep perchance to scheme, to rest a weary head on a pillow of feathered friends and hapless trends, assaulted, salted, halted and semi-aquatic, melodic and episodic and forced to sleep, to dream, to lie and thrive, high and dry

now sleep