poetry noir
engines in the gap
daughters staring in the distance
an uncrossable void
charisma and rocket fuel are useless
vorpal monologues
when will it be their turn?
define the paradigms
destroy the judges and the heritage
the void suffers
you just never hear it
because the echo of the silence
passes through you
just like the void passes through me
disobey all the warning labels
and create some of your own
then wonder why your daughters
disobey you and destroy your ideas
and as she delicately removed
her sculptured robes
entire galaxies flew out
my mind wasn’t splintered -
I was born that way
as a dark bird lands outside
your soundproof dome and
stares for awhile, then squawks
silently, turns and disappears
into the distance
of the airless night
the fourth planet from their sun
twinkles in the triple moonlight
he leaned over, closed his eyes
and longingly caressed her
tombstone again
I opened the envelope
to see my savings and
accomplishments from the
past year
and the letter inside was blank
and there is a bleak divide
between me and
the me I used to be
your smile haunts and destroys me
like a golden warrior
murdering the last free man alive
