stifled scrabblings of kinkalowrenched anguish,
stained tongues on Sith apiary rings –
echo chamber feedback of my stage wounds,
puddle water mock supplication,
flap lips dripping lantern-bone supposed saving.
burning rasps of foxhole panic,
pulpy snap Tinto drowning fire –
wires crossed homicide pirouettes mania Swiss
narced vigil suicide posts grab portrait past
keracycles wheezing defeats conscripted minute.
as the ring of my pyre materializes,
"zen phoenix rising"
eyes slutting woman's candy coop blaze,
poking dead woods axle rust devil
-ain't no extinction.
metal claws on my arm rattle like dice
in a squalid roulette,
"embrace the madness, pet"
her sickly-wooed voice like a cadaver's hymn,
chipped gemstone smile,
"drink"
mocking me with unconvincing sweetness.
sharp nails pinhole vision burning nightmare guts,
cruel hands force my jaw,
acid arrest napalm spilling,
mother's widening smile rips my eyes.
colors hemorrhage like putrid rain,
screaming crescent walls mock me,
ears chew shattered honeycomb,
i'm a pawn in some twisted game of perpetual decay –
observer's detached funk,
numb skin dripping like soured wine,
afloat in godforsaken soup.
shattered snapshots flicker
like deflated whoopee cords,
past creeps back in,
rotting rotten fruitcake,
wedding vows devoured by cockroach feet, newborn screams eviscerated by razor wire,
blood and bones achingly stirred.