Tuesday, January 25, 2011

2-line poetry

(basis: little to no abstractions)

i am but a simple mechanism taken advantage of
invented by a dead corpse with a name

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smoke-laced conversations under fading bulbs
whiskied souls floating down the river Lethe

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broken fragments of a wine glass glittering under wide eyes
a pair of cocks, beak to beak, vying for the cry to the rising sun

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shit grins from within a toilet
chagrin to desire to dig it back up

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hair that stands on end and pricks when the skin crawls
under coverlets that should protect the mind's wit

2 comments:

  1. What's Lethe? I've heard the name before

    I like the last one the best

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  2. Greek mythology - lethe is the river of forgetfulness

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