23 August 2008

existential theme

ping ping i scratch
my sonic membrane
infinite strip shopping

complex mother ship
bugs and fragments
dock bond or issue

and rich criteria slough
and tired marks muck
the main drag

the music’s inconsolable
this sleep deprived soldier
soldiers on

where are the nouns?
tortured by sailors they sing
once chosen

they cannot
be
undone

on their knees
they regurgitate
memories

upside
down
their faces deform

emblazoned on coffee mugs
each one’s a king
who laughs at sorrow

life’s a tiny wound infected
so don’t preach
restraint now

when we could be scratching
or floating
to the moon

emphysema
stalls the
memories

drowning
in
CO2