Senses flutter
Orbs scatter
The moon digs into stealth midnight mirage lenses
Pours into soft malleable open retina
Staring profusely into the drunk jagged stream light battle-zone
Rips into the stolid dense skin of darkness
Shelter to the wounded streets & homeless skulls
all cracked & driven to utter paved silence
Sullen sidewalks are spurred on only by the dragging leper’s footsteps
They kneel down to lie their bleak heads
(empty of coarse super cells)
on Sunday’s crumpled newspaper
The echoing skull is pulsating the insomnia like the lunatic’s opus
The drowsy head plummets to the unforgiving sanctuary
ready for the rejoicing of left-behind galaxies
and concrete earth tyrants urging them to remember
the beatings, the drooling, the plotted visions of assassinated sleep
Velvety purple death, grey smoldering skies & red eagle-eyed danger
all cry the invalid hasty urban cries
of downtown death shroud’s crimson lullabies
The drunken soot-faced corner dweller advises,
‘Steer clear of grim follies & rabid animal houses
where all meals are savory with urine-stench fogged memories
For one day the sacred vice clamps hard,
gathers the clutches,
swoops down with predator eye like a reapers fatal grasp’
The crushing cold talon takes the hoarish dirty-bearded man
Releases him from fleshy burdens & dark-hooded addictions
Flees to the morrow
where everyone has an insatiable appetite for rapture