Thursday, June 23, 2011

Love Poem to America

Baby, I love your soul, plastic soul, full of broken vinyl edges.
I love your oil soul, pumped full of dead carbon corpses
That make your voice sing so sweet.
Baby, you have those 9-to-5 fingers that snatch me up with promise.
Mm, you fill me up so I look so good on my outside.
Sweet darling, sometimes I miss your youth
When I conquered you first
And your skin was still unbroken,
When the honey from your wounds hadn't crystallized your eyes,
Made you blind to me.
But baby, you lay yourself open for me,
So I love you.

Snakes

My mouth's ceiling is moving
I can feel
Bits of twisted wire
Popping from my slippery skin
Hard on bone
I won't deny it hurts

When tissue comes undone
Worming into a mass of
Tendrils squirming towards escape
Through those gates
That let in lovers' breaths

I know
My eyes must look so...
Just doped up
Only from sadness
“Please don't look at me”
Because gazes are tiring

And I'm like a silent rock
Ha, but unraveling
Inside where it's warm
To hiss silently
Under the scrutiny of
Dark Eyes
Searching for emptiness