The sunset reflects the day Casting blood in the west :
They walk in file, load on padded crowns Eyeing the feet ahead, worlds their pace drown Steps stepping on steps, stop in silence Heads tilt, a jerk practiced unburdens
But the loud thud is without relief On their return vicious for more of it
For, forest people these are free at heart still.
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A kid asleep is pulled up sudden By the hair, jolted, smacked hard then ...
Horror of horrors, the eight corners fill With lad's terror, his howling screams As if he'd woke up without his limbs Or before a face ghastly, its slow twist
Trembling, traumatised by a dracula king.
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Nothing soothes ...
Questions terminate on own failings The spirit volutes on harsh rhythms Strummed by men addicted to sodomy And curious, gullible or bored victims
Id prostrate before the ego lording Women saddled to fires unquenching Curled in defeat and impressions bloody Too weak to strike out but anger surging
With unsought beauty, joy disused And potential latent, sleeping muse ...
The options clear in this soft breeze In shimmer rustling off sesame leaves.
'Tis late afternoon when the day ends Depths peculiar play on walls splashed golden The breeze hugs our faces, clear iridescent And shadows milddance, hue fringed russet
With mottled trees in eye, heart on being set The sea I pass by, to men waiting helpless Collide with womanhalf - clad, seemed insane And glance back, right into her grin unrestrained
With goose bumps I shiver, transfixed in the moment Happy and free her look, commune in pure presence Resume quick to walk away, then I happen to check My own half - grin response, amused some yards late !
On the foot - board, above the ground racing by My feet nudge deeper while I hang for my life Arms numb, clenched about a column for support Molars crush on fear as swerves threaten to smote
I choke on my screams, urging halt and help But the bus would not nor the burden relent Distress momenting precarious, howls silent When sight rests on a smile, calm windswept Eyes half closed, same body aslant in threat ...
Thank heavens, I pray on speed and take heart From comrade cool, with our unbalanced start.
In the office where I work, dear The receptionist greets with feigned cheer Scheme and use, please, butter Looks done up but smiles insincere.
Mingle with millions in the evening Gloom laughing in their little things Worried women spent early Come alive to probes horny In bus crowded, life lost in routine Chatteringof times, empty within.
Dinner in restaurant beside four toughies Robbers, murderers sly, eyeslocking as if ... ?
Outside, the swooning moon, below neon lights Pimps sneak up and a woman matches my strides Bust heaving, smile non - Duchenne, talks wish - wash I buy not, but wait to payfor chips, nuts n other trash
She's hungry ... we walk, till she suggests And I quote too low, tongue in cheek, abuses I accept Glad to have bought the night for myself My joy, free space, and the book still open on the bed.
Sciences, arts, brothels and philosophy Old disorders, the dubious heap toxic Facts smudged, more irrelevant beliefs Murk unpredictable cascading whips
Deep disgust, apple poisonousjuicy :
Converging always to same dead ends Preying egosensuous to dynamic trends To this nightpolar, impasse predominant Pray fierce for light, peace and strength
Ramblings gross, groping inert the key Digressions, alms, actions debilitating Little crafts, monuments lifeless, exigencies Truth shut, loss abysmal, fields conflicting
In thought, will, hope and drive whelming.
O' Youth of twenty summers Restless, enthused and eager Seeking music, sunk in women Dreams thick, as bee on pollen
Burnt, stale, common to all men
That catches up in one stretch To vacuums only humans fetch Sleep bitter, a passage same And wakefulness a bosh inane
Of chores black and breathless worry Damned questions linger as rank thury
Till that twilight of suddencalm Torment resolved of divine balm And a state of rest perfect fills Source wet within, imburses still.
