That white lady
Dear sirs and then the house was bowing with people mike and jason and krista and steve and junior and jeff and alex and i watched bloodsucking freaks and the first nightmare on elm street mary drifting off smooth white among scales of clouds flickering down on us like late august snow electric in my head kelvin the drip sour chemical vagina my face so softly in it down the rabbit hole that mike slid through aiming for the heart hitting every nerve dying to know what time is and why it’s so important or roaming through rummage of shreds cigarettes hermetic just wanting to be gone for a while mary held the brilliance of everyone’s fear and told me that shame i feel i agreed to long ago is not a binding contract at all but expansion across the hips of night sliding down the front door no screen to hold it back and you aren’t angry when a frightened cat hisses are you not too perfectly natural perfect though restless though coming now to caress my failures as in others to touch just once the brief halo of their lights strung through those droning halls i hope the little baby don’t fall don’t forget to leave your body intact in some small way where these emptied stones enact air from the pertinent renditions we who heal continuously through the rabbit hole aren’t angry when a kid in a passing car throws something nor will John Coltrane suck the brackish berry a fresh cigarette explodes in the back of your throat while mary for a while digits carved in white desert respiration flutters with alien lights landing on the back porch scalded by lop-sided devils and the sugar the plenitude sharp like cocaine’s drizzle and lit up polluted tools like you all a sudden woke up in the midday heat threatening leather ceilings ideals diluted but i hope the little baby don’t fall i hope mike and jason and krista and steve and junior and jeff and alex scented and to hang restless though restlessly perfected gradient tepid with pillow gregarious is not a binding contract and now i’m in breach here and there modulating above us undulant you’re so fucking dull you’re so fucking dead inside here and there a wall on each side you look through so you cut yourself away in broad slices from your reflection to hang in the back of her throat kelvin heat desperate purring lithographic kiss devil fences segmenting the screams are my segues for pushing the epic out whole of my ass clenched listlessly pinkened by the model the little baby fell on top of gritting my teeth either i rest or i serve such severe choices oi such cut and plunder lust without urgency or self-interest just practical in temporal amorphous fossils i’d just as soon run away high so i’d always come home low and yellow and chromed inside like the dogs had been at me for a while like the ghost of something earth swallowed up long ago long ago his saxophone screaming his sex seamed and long ago long ago long ago cach’d out and dripping cinders into an ashtray standing by i just stood there watching the street and spiders or i was ingesting through this thin cloud of skin what the sun was today oh we all know better now how it’ll kill us we all know better now better now to be cloaked low to the ground and then sprinting take off high better now we all know polar shift polar reversal fins spilling dull death as cut into what our cells remember of us after the organs collapse softly in a drip across mary’s back half lakeside trestle pellet leaning annual eulogy gelded but stole bitch punting mine killed in too slugged glisten trail this many feet away