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Bedazzled

March 13, 2019
By FlightOfPiscine PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
FlightOfPiscine PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"Irony [is] the song of a prisoner who's come to love his cage" - David Foster Wallace


Movements of the body

Infinitesimal hammer strikes

Break into a sharp cascade

A shudder swims through my skin

by the brush of a leaf

 

Knee joint double back fold in onto my stomach

Tuck appendages, a fleshy box, and send me off in bandages

Mounting hairpin fractures, the sheer cliff face of skin

Drop off into the canopy,

    eternity,

        theabyss

  within

 

I take lime green medicine and shoot it up through my veins

In a burst of rainbow glory the wall is splattered with my brains

Put a gun to the floor and shoot the earth — cry your name

Sink, flat stingray paper, and melt into the terrain

 

This blood takes acrobatic courses

Through nascent, open-holed culdesacs and yellow-maroon lint

Jumps from arms to feet — a consoling quantum tunneling

Extend like a gauzy blanket, encircle me, spread-thin

Fight to preserve my decaying lifeblood, yours

Take up spear and sword and jab through your walls of creation.

 

Take a spear and shoot it into the earth, into a gun

Run a spear through veins and ventricles and arterial lost hopes

Blast a shattered sun.

 

Kaleidoscope the sky and watch the colors fly

RUN along the ground keep your body close to the ground

pathetic slug of unregarded heroism and forgotten stature

you will have your molding day soon

or your melting day, come june

because we all know that night falls with a rhyme

 

Paint buckets spill onto daffodils

and eat up the slimy torpedo

that creeps across the floor and

disrespects your expectations —

instead drags the world to itself with frightening speed

An onset collision dictated by a single point fighting internal trembles

Internal loopings and knots shooting through knots.

 

Ambidextrous slug flies, limp into the sky

follows the trail that phoenix flew years ago

Takes trembling jettisons of fury, clawing towards its zenith

Where it shatters in on itself and blasts the sun.

 

A dazzle of glitter floats down with free will

And twirls petals in autumn wind around my awe-struck eyes

Transfixed, take a snapshot

Because at the very same moment

These kaleidoscope pixies darted with malicious teeth to cover my body like ants

And eat away at the heart of a monotone wave

 

Now I remain forever

Petals of glitter crowning my frozen air

And jeweling my cracked skin.



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