(2013)
Your end? My end? Where the hell’s the middle? You say this. I say that.
I came to bless you with the mystery, and shine my light on you. I did not know you could not risk the light,
I was seven years old. I approached the priest in earnest… “I want to take the lord Jesus in… He instructed me to kneel and pray… A week passed.
What lingers within me is ancient… prepared for the worst of all poss… No matter how deeply I rest while… it’s forever awake, coiled and rea… It seems to be from before there w…
Sweet sultry muse, I declare this solemn oath before all that’s true and holy, that this earthly life and love are yours and yours alone,
I am your greatest grandmother calling softly on the ocean winds. I was never lost to you forever, only swallowed by the other half o… Come down with me to the quiet pla…
These words, gently laid upon this page, amount to my sincere prayer they reach within you, and touch your secret self,
Who of you will follow where I’m bound to go? None that I can see. None that I can name. No-one that I know.
Oh, knower of my heart, this trembling voice cries out in words that cannot begin to tell how deep my longing is for thee.
Is there any way I might touch yo… that doesn’t skim right off the su… of your exquisitely contrived vene… Is there a plea which I might utt… that would stir you from within?
I see no reason now to disguise this naked heart and soul of mine. You can hide there
Sweet Mary Jane bade me follow where she led. I went eagerly. She was my life’s one true love. All the others,
Some time ago, I made my way down to the crossroads, to try my lucky hand at the devil’s gaming tables.
Almost silent, A numbing hum. It is a cold cloudless night. A brilliant bone-white moon hovers amidst stars upon stars upon stars…
The old priest gazes out upon his… each head bowed before the sacred… A scarred and broken bodied warrio… seeking inner peace and final abso… An elderly wealthy man of commerce…