10/25/2022

lept in boiling lake
all that glitters is - up for grabs
and drowning us
all that's true is - up for debate
and eluding us

midas on the tire swing
midas on the 'gram
styrofoam scepter - grasped by cancer
jump, pussy jump

the followed follows
reality cleaves
the splash is posed
like a question

asked faultily, unanswered rightly
how will we ever get out
the cost rises in plumes
untotalled, mingling with acid

10/10/2022

death and gifts lain out by hands that have never another shook

the drowning meets the drowned on the way home

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outside the sphere of influence

and the diamond of violence

i gurgle, braindead.

a man in power authorizes

a windfall of fire

a man in power sleeps

in the manner i sleep

alike, both wide-eyed with

terror, in plush linen