{"id":2838,"date":"2019-11-04T07:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2019-11-04T07:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:16:37","slug":"a-conspiracy-of-suicide-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/a-conspiracy-of-suicide-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"a conspiracy of suicide kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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i
\ndisturbances and alien language
\ntip-toe on glass surfaces
\nwith dirty dashboards and long running dreams
\nall captured in dead letters
\nthe wind blew october\u2019s apparition away
\nnothing is final
\nwe’re all just decadent ghosts
\nhaunting various stages of human existence<\/p>\n

sudden stop
\nfear at 3am
\nreturn, reload
\nand flow
\ncrypto calypso
\nstamping typeface on hallowed ground
\nwith fleeting concentration
\nand programmed destinations
\nno looking back
\nalways moving
\nforward and down<\/p>\n

dance between the raindrops
\nsevering shaded symbols
\nstrike a limited connection
\nand wait for an external reception
\nas you compose untitled poems
\nby broken lamp light
\nin quiet insurrection<\/p>\n

ii
\ni can summon the golden dawn
\nbut i can’t chase the rain away
\ni can breathe binary breaths of bleeding fruit
\nbut i can’t remember where we last laughed
\ni can raise the living
\nbut i can’t forget the dead<\/p>\n

i can inspire
\ndelicate desire
\nin a spiritual hellfire
\nand conspire
\nto reveal halloween eyes
\nof saggitarian sapphire<\/p>\n

as i sidestep and stride
\noccupied, amplified, override
\ncreating the new counter-culture
\na rainbow rhapsody of resplendent reclamation<\/p>\n

talismans of lsd
\ntraced on another morning moon
\ntripping the rift
\nalways remember the rose
\nand beer drunk pharaohs
\nshooting crooked arrows
\nas you watch
\nsilent strangers
\nmount one another
\nin macabre manifestations
\nof mutual misbehavior<\/p>\n

iii
\nbroomsticks and bones
\nalone
\nwe work to play
\nand parlay
\na razor’s foreplay
\nbreakaway
\nand never
\nbetray
\nsafari dreams in
\ncaffeine disarray
\neviscerate and navigate
\nan infinite expressway
\nas we tirelessly slay
\ngreen games by day
\nand reap
\nred victories by night<\/p>\n

nicotine
\nand a morphine queen
\nsplash across
\nsilver screens
\nas toy machines
\nreach between
\nsacred evergreens<\/p>\n

we need heroes
\nand homeless prophets
\nto map the rhythm of
\ndandelion dancers in heat
\nbecause
\nthe saints are sealed in stone houses
\nand i have fallen victim
\nto passions hidden in summer’s woe
\nscarecrow, desperado
\nwatching headlights
\nthrough a tiny window
\nand waiting
\nfor the next vixen to arrive<\/p>\n

where is my red fiery goddess?<\/p>\n

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