Obedience
Everyone
hears voices.
The schizophrenic
obeys them.
Category Archives: poems & short jabs
skid marks
Memories
Memories are
the skid
marks you
leave as
you brake into
the future.
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realizing what you’ve done
Realizing What You’ve Done
Read this
& weep.
Lay low,
wait for
the bugles
to blow.
Bellow
a warning.
Duck down.
Here they
come.
Brace yourself.
You’re not
in a
foxhole.
You’re not
an atheist.
You’re fodder.
A heap
of regrets.
A distorted
sum total.
Before it’s
over you’ll
know what
you’ve done.
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a message for whoever comes next
A Message for Whoever Comes Next
I.
The final
chapter’s
been written.
The book’s
come to
an end.
Printed &
bound
sealed in
bee’s wax.
Locked away
in a
coffee tin,
six tins
welded
together,
buried deep
in a glacier
that will
soon melt
into
the ocean.
All the
answers are
in the book,
all the
reasons why.
II.
More words
are tweeted
in a
single day
than exist
in all
the books
ever written,
but none
of them
will make
sense to
aliens
landing here
after
we’re gone.
Not until
they retrieve
the book
from the
dead sea
will they
know who
we really
were &
why we
are no
longer.
A message
of loneliness.
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a bad day
A Bad Day
Some days
get off
on the
wrong foot &
end up
amputated at
the knee.
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slipping
Slipping
A slip
of
the tongue.
A slip
on
the ice.
A slipped
disc, memory.
Slipshod.
A slip
on a
sweet
young body.
A slippery
eel
customer
slipping out
before the
fireworks
start.
Slipping
between
the cracks,
your whole
life turned
to vapor.
Up it
goes into
the sky,
down it
comes again
like
black rain.
Cold facts.
Illusive reality.
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