Monday 30 March 2020

THE BURDEN OF BECOMING DEAD

PLEASE DECAPITATE
ONLY IF RIPE
LEST CONSEQUENTIAL DISASTER
BOISTEROUSLY ITS POLLEN BOILING
DIVULGES LEISURELY
GROWN TO PROTECT
AN EXHIBITION OF SELF-EXHIBITED TRIUMPH
GRANDEUR BLOSSOM OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAGNOLIA
INTERNALLY
THE CROWN ERECTS
INNATELY PERSISTENT
BENEATH THE INCENSE
EVER GLORIOUS
ON A HEADLESS ENTITY
THE SMOKE SWIRLS  
WHICH AROUND IT SURROUNDS LIKE A SEA
QUIETLY WEEPING BETWEEN WARS 
WAGED BY WINDS
THROUGH FEROCIOUS CONFETTI
A VIOLATION 
PURELY IS AN ANALYSIS OF WEAKNESS
HENCE WEAKLINGS PERHAPS ARE WORTHY OF SUCH SUBJECTION
SQUAWKS WHEREIN LIKE A BUMBLE BEE 
DEPRIVED OF OPPORTUNITY   

CONSCIOUS OF THE IMPATIENCE SEARING INSIDE ITS ATTORNEY
PROLONGED COUNTDOWN 
OF CERTAINTY
STRATEGICALLY FREES ITS FRAGRANCE
AS PROVOCATIVE AS A DEFECT IN ARMOUR
THROUGH WHICH IT
LINGERS, BUT NEEDN’T EFFORT, LINGERS
AN ENTIRETY 
ABOVE 
UNTIL ABOVE IS EXEMPT 
NO MORE
WHEN DEFEATED AUDIENCES SUCCUMB
FOR TEMPORARY ETERNITIES
TO ASSUME 
SUMMONED BENEFICIARIES 
ASSIGNED HEIRS OF
RECIPIENTS OF
THE BESTOWED UPON
ET CETERA
A SERVANT OF ITS SECRET
SURPRISE OF WILLING NEGLIGENCE
AWAKENS USELESS EGOS
NEARLY UNKNOTTED
ASHAMED AT THE RECOGNITION OF ITS VULNERABILITY

FINALLY 
FIRST PRECIOUS 
A PETAL FALLS
FACE-FIRST
ROASTED BY THE UNDEFEATABLE SUN 
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HOLY RECIPE
ANTICIPATES
UNTIL ANOTHER FALLEN; ONLY A WHOLE IS ADEQUATE 
TO APPEASE THE APPETITE OF THE EARTH
WLECOMING OVER AS EXPECTED
UPON RETRIEVAL
SUBJECTS OF FRENZY 
SUCCESSIVELY LAMB BEFALLING SHEEP
ALL FROM CLIFFS
EFFECTING DOMINOS
A MEANS OF EXPRESSING DEMISE
DEFLECTING PRIOR
THE EVIL OF PLAGUE
WHOSE ORIGINS
ENTWINED WITH HUMAN HAIR
FOR PURPOSES OF FORTIFICATION 
THE NAKED FLOWER
DEPRIVED OF FRAGRANCE NOW
IS RIPE FOR THE DECAPITATION