a literal lifeguard
watching the interconnectivity
betwixt souldander surrenders
perched far enough away
to never quite frolic
in the refreshing spray
too browbeaten and disabused
of the notion of joy
to do more than watch

my heart is the
wrinkled bill which finds
only rejection when
used for change
bleeding dayglo krylon
in insipid neon orange
to ward off weary travelers
there is no succor here
just a spiralling demise
where dreamfilaments
shred cardiac conspiracies

each morning i set myself
on the curb to await
the garbage truck’s arrival
unrecyclable heartshards
in asbestos breathcontrol
wheezing farewell in
crimson spittle while
the worldashes fall downdowndown
to cover civility in this
corrosive cadence of woe