Monday, March 22, 2010

sample of me

The Landscape of Sickened Security


My gritty nails seize the barbed fence

Almost snapped apart like fish line

tempting to catch your siege and

cast it into the corroded cesspool.

The tipsy tremulous twine

unable to grasp the weight,

of plastic cards and Mercedes keys,

powdered glass and pip thieves,

bubble baggies and crack teeth.

My future cannot mend the cartilage

hardened like clay molded into a porcelain doll

with past parties gnawing on my bones.

My mucky limb extends, quivering

stretching to reach and conquer

summit’s intoxicating effect.

Ready to climb sunken valleys

and crawl over fallen trees

that clasp on and drag.

I should carve roots into soil

before the first frozen wind

twirls the last brown leaf.

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