{"id":1476,"date":"2018-03-31T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2018-03-31T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:50:24","slug":"a-long-drive-to-the-edge-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/a-long-drive-to-the-edge-of-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"a long drive to the edge of nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

late and always
\ndaydreaming
\nlayers upon layers of
\ndistant voices screaming
\ndecrying this false victimization<\/p>\n

guarded
\nthe soul screeches to a abrupt stop
\nwaiting for a green light
\nof passive reflection
\nas a thousand and one faces
\nof slow evolution
\nride on the wild tide
\nof prostitution
\nwaiting for execution<\/p>\n

progression of the word
\ninterred
\nwith
\ncycles of six
\nrepeated
\nand
\ngreen money eyes
\ndepleted<\/p>\n

succession of deeds
\nin disharmony
\nno time for the present
\nas the past and future meet
\nserving cycles to beat<\/p>\n

a front-runner in degeneration
\ncraving one last narration and
\npraying to the lost goddess
\nof imperative dictation<\/p>\n

forever selling my soul
\nto the eventual
\ndemise of charity
\nand adventure
\nI\u2019m a constant martyr
\nseeking to avoid dull villainy<\/p>\n

cosmic energy spawned
\nin delightful sin
\nnow dissipated in waves they spin<\/p>\n

reaching back and up from the abyss
\nI remember the temptress
\nand her passionate devil’s kiss
\nnaked and heated
\ncarefully seated
\nwithin the comfort of nature’s bliss<\/p>\n

festivity
\neach moment of her touch
\nwas an eternity
\nheld in captivity<\/p>\n

but i was just a place holder
\nbroken and nothing but a token
\nbeset by vacant tragedies
\nan ordinary object
\nwritten about
\nin an unordinary way<\/p>\n

and this heart
\nis now a mechanical beast
\ndriving the mind deceased
\nthrough complicated spheres
\nundone and fleeced<\/p>\n

nurturing mountains of disdain
\ni reach clumsily for keys
\ntapping locks of ambiguity
\nas i seek to ordain
\na body old yet new<\/p>\n

fuck sadness
\nfuck loss
\nand fuck depression
\nthose are tired stories
\nfamiliar and played out
\nit’s time to compel this staggering clone
\nto clockwork heights
\nof shaggy and interpretive insanity<\/p>\n

the drunk and the prophet
\nwith opposite stars
\nthese two poets combine
\nto animate uncertain songs
\nrelaying watered down culture
\nand secrets of a sacred bloodline<\/p>\n

a little rain is okay
\nwith
\nwine as sustenance
\nat the end of a workday
\nall passion delayed
\nin favor of a subtle accolade<\/p>\n

I was called out as a artist
\nbut no not really
\nthese words are just
\ntherapy
\njoining intricate fragments
\nof my distilled mind<\/p>\n

one more time with
\ndependency
\nwhile sinking into verses
\none more line with
\nresidency
\nwhile laughing at curses
\none more rhyme with
\nascendancy
\nof infinite universes<\/p>\n

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