Broken Glass Sundae: Poems of the Material



Minced Fat Free Widget

Oh, the fire scorpions that bite my heels...
The brown-garbed salesman with his deals
I want to be ninety-nine point
Forty-four percent pure
As I am drawn to the allure
Of an all expense melts-in-your-mouth
Look at that hippie smoking a joint
Paid not-in-your-hands vacation
In Vegas with a new set of wheels
And the taxes for a little irritation
Compared to the leading brand
You have little recreation
Our brand is the best
Taking the matter into hand
You get little rest
The results of procreation
The bed sheets smell of love
But brand-X will make them virtually
Honey I'm home spot free
Do you hear minced me diced sliced I'm
And another touchdown home
Call us at honey I'm home one-eight-hundred
We are honey do you the people that care

 

Dementia

Smiling while chewing on tin foil
As I slide down a razor banister
Into my dying room
I watch the grey static
Of the evening news
Grey babies dying
Grey people bleeding grey blood
Smiling with the news anchor
And then watching talking toilets
And singing raisins
That dance across the screen.
The movie comes on
And I laugh at the vomit scene
In "The Exorcist"
I've had days like that, too.

I get into my car parked in my driveway
And drive down a parkway
Where I work and eat lunch
In an industrial park
I awake before the sun rises
And drive home after dark
I put my hours in at work
And my dream is realized
The smaller TV is now in the corner
As I watch the gray static
Of the evening news
On a big screen TV
The raisins sing louder
And dance faster
And the grey people
Like me, are greyer, too.

Bottle Mommy

I suckle at your breasts
Drinking your red milk
Like a vampire drinking blood
I am fucked up,
Bottle mommy.

My tears are mixed with your milk,
And I swallow them, too,
As I drown my sorrows,
In the river Lethe.

I nurse like a baby vampire
I need you to get through the night
Like a baby needs milk
To get through the day...
I am alone.

Mommy mommy, I am fucked up,
I see dragons licking my paper cuts,
With tongues of fire,
That cauterize wounds,
That cut me to the bone.

I suck at your glass nipple
To the light of the fluorescent
Which smells of electricity
My mind is electrified
And fertilized by the power
Of your red milk.


In your sweet fire
I am warmed
Forgetting the pain of life
I am baptized in the river Lethe.

I dream the dream of the damned,
Who wonder of something more,
Who want to find true love,
And not the cold grasp of a whore.

You grow heavy with the passing hour
You are as a bride
A statue made out of lead
That I must carry across the threshold,
And yet you take away my pain,
For as long as I hold you
In my weakening grasp.

I will awaken with a headache
Tomorrow but I feel
That tonight is what I live for
Or perhaps die for
For the pain I feel lasts until I fall asleep
Until your grasp releases me...
Mommy, of the red milk.

 

 


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