Archive for February, 2008

Stickered tip to toe

Nothing fits, from dawn on through weary afternoon into still and sleepy dusk. I am out to visitors inside my own skin, since today I am an unwelcome guest myself.
Your face don’t fit, mate. You ain’t fackin’ comin’ in.
Frame cracked, smeared glass, imperfectly aligned and picture crooked. Up a bit, up a bit, down a bit, down, […]

The aliens live amongst us

Aliens, mostly. Definitely the aliens. Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, lesbians. I wouldn’t be too sure about the Muslims, though I don’t object to them myself, you understand. You just can’t be too careful, can you? But you can’t say I’m not fair, because an American on the street would, well, you know. I just wouldn’t know […]

Your Ghost

Says the shadow: “I painted this mirror for you last night, just as you asked many moons ago. I am an artist of broad, frenzied brushstrokes when the night sweats seize me and shake me senseless.”
Says the ghost: “From this moment forward, every drop of you will be forever soaked into the pitch black. Nothing to […]

Moonshot #1

I have hatched a plot whereby we can at last get our slippery, sweaty hands on our prey. I know you don’t believe it’s possible, but it is. It truly is. It has to be, because these sunlit, cloud-dashed days of ifs and buts are growing tired of our procrastination. A dull fever is setting […]