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give me my body bag
i need my goddamn toe-tag
put me in the drawer or
sing the answers/ … car-trunk!
put me on ice, pull the plug
disconnect, desecrate, recreate
retrospection is overrated
everything happened but not in two
words, you only have two words
‘right now’
but not those words
not words
hahaha you know i am king in the deck of cards
hahaha you know i read ecclesiastes
hahaha you know i’m dead
hahaha you know i’m dead
as the universe, posthumous repeating music
of the helping hand of hell
dispatched to dispense with
the
matter of all
the matters. the ultimate circumstance
i am not in the realms of. mind: the gap. is it not apparent.
are you not a sleight Ashamed? hahaha, ashamed. you
said it not me. ‘you don’t love me.’ you
never loved me, i’m a monster of your imagination’s
dread reflex impulse inexorable we kept going
we said things, ‘hahaha’. thing. what a wonderful all-purpose
word to describe the goings-on between us, we were ‘having a thing’.
her thing and my thing. the ‘it’. thing. is it you
that’s starting to forget, or is it me that has
already reminded you to, and you remember with this sentence
all alone in the closet of your ideal, in the shadow of your shadow
the secret hole inside the hole of every head that’s graying eyes
where we expense with our nonexistence
yes we’re digging our graves, but from the inside out
we’re digging ourselves up. we are going to be exhumed
in the aftertime. you will not disagree; you will see it,
if you had lived to. but the chances were less than one and two
that it will take you to the 2022. bet on the blood of your ancestors. you know the odds
of even my generation ever seeing the light.
are few. (and even less far between, on the quantum end-Ed.)
and thank god we’re for that.
this is most decadent and ethically indecent generation yet to live
in earth’s recent memory. the most overgrown
maladaptive and malign smash and grab scab of
benign dissimulation the budding tumor had ever known?
it wasn’t due to a partial aphasia.
it wasn’t reactive attachment disorder.
it wasn’t her answer over yours.
and it wasn’t about the color of your lipstick
or who she left it on last.
there will be no maudlin coda
to this i sing the electric
dialectic of the embodied mind
in the modern day. particularly
the pollution of self-conversational
dissociation in every circumstance,
which i am… born of the kind of headache
you almost pity, that would be lost without you.
Published March 23rd, 2022 by DON’T SUBMIT. Read on MLC March 25th, 2022
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