Showing posts with label Unfaithfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unfaithfulness. Show all posts

Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Principle of Division


table salt—
sodium-chloride
locking in
another flood in wait

cupboard’s dusty—
an extension
of what we keep
for sustenance
in our jars of clay—
tamper-proof—preventing
another early wake
end. point. turn.

a new arithmetic has been observed—it crushes on the physical geometry we just have to learn—an ancillary construction’s hiding space—a distraction, a disgrace—a fake stir of optimism—for a scene based entirely upon pessimistic sets of codes—when discovery disrupts the guise we had formed, it disassembles all the equations we’ve ever known—the only beauty we’ve ever worn—deconstructing our place of home.

a nauseous  epidemic.
anxiety laden nerves. 
paranoid—and rightly so—
an underworld erected—from the trust and freedom love’s allotted us.

From the many we make few—the espionage grows and grows until it tires too—loneliness abounds, even when good hearts surround and the graphed parabolas never fail; they never fall—

self placed Landmines erupt-explode—triggered by the auxiliary education we so foolishly thought we would need to know—because of form, logic lost—a probability gambled upon, one too which the odds we thought we could beat—yet blinded by the arcs and shape—we deemed it a chance we had to take—opportunities like this are rare—amnesia of all we had simply disappears—all that was gets strained then lost— the superficial signs that led us astray—the most negative of causalities—where no one wins and the opportunity to start again—well, that die had been long since tossed—

alone again—first time since, what’s it been? Twenty-five years or so—empty house, empty home—friends grew busy, friends don’t answer their phones—all for what, all for what? Twenty-four-thirty-six-twenty-four—just numbers, random-strange—just memories—what an accomplishment—even if I chose to speak the lore—just look at me, look at me—even I wouldn’t believe a single word—strike that—I’d believe the part about the guy that’s lost it all.
end.
point.
turn-
where?


Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Cold Front

Vile words echo again,
Nine to eighteen inches overnight,
Perhaps this is premature, could be different this time through,
Another town, some other day,
On cue the host adds a caveat, minimum nine tonight, guaranteed,
Better bundle up, this one’s going to be nasty,

Smacking the dash as I park the car,
No need for anger, no reason yet,
Rust decorates the slush as I close the door,
Dark clouds pouring in, a new chill as flakes fall,
Guess that promise was filled with emptiness,
Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas, three months after the fact,
Deck the Hall, What’s this guy stalking me?
With boughs of holly, blah, blah, blah, and then and then
An unconscious response, from fist to beard, Four cops swarm
With guns drawn, but forty minutes later Santa said he holds no ill will towards me,
Conveniently I walked, into the Store, but some foreigner starts yelling we closed, we closed,
All I want is a lousy loaf of bread, some milk and some eggs,
Pulls out a bat and starts swinging, bells jingle as I’m exiting, cops nowhere around,

Staring at the walls, she’s still not home, should I worry, my heart begins to race,
We’ve been through this one before.  I’ll sit and wait as the darkness fills the clouds black and grey
I’ll watch the front as it rides on through, and picture her pacing and rehearsing the excuses she’ll use.