Night Sighs

Lascivious. Vicious. Luscious. Lust.
List. Lost. Low. Lone. Long. Night.
Newt. Cricket. Croak it.
Toad.

Lascivious swamp sisters
Provide vicious cures for lovers' qualms.
Luscious hips help lovers forget old lovers;
Lustful rutting helps new lovers to calm.
List, oh children, list to the sisters;
Lose yourselves to the Lost Girls,
Lie low with their brood my brothers;
Lie long and alone till your longing unfurls.
Night love is the love nature loves best.
Newts and Crickets make love through song and throating;
Their moaning crooning longing in its purest;
Toads make their need known by croaking.

Hunting for Friendships

Hunt. Hint. Hight. Height. Hit. Hot.
Hoot. Hood. Clit. Clove. Close.
Close. Choice. Choose.
Whose?

Hunting through empty rooms with forgotten wares,
Hinting company and friends galore,
Glinting relics of bygone days, lost in the days' affairs;
Highting friends and lovers that they adored .

Falling from a great and terrible life,
Hitting reasons all the way down.
Pounding into circumstantial strife.
Hooting out my melancholy sound,

Cloves smoked between aisles and car seats.
Closing shop for the first last time.
Getting close and closer to getting close.
Choices never waver when they're wrong.
Choose an ending.
Whose?

Ocean Silent

Silence. Silliness. Soulless. Bondage.
Breakage. Storms. Seas. Floods. Tempest.
Tossing. Hoping. Breaking. Bucking.
Broken.

Silence.
Upon the wave-tossed ocean
From the mouths that Fate has spun
Silliness abounds upon the decks,
Until, soullessly, home come the wrecks.
Bound in bondage they come ashore,
Breaking oaths with those that they adore.
Storms are ever brokering
Betwixt the seas and their offerings.
Flooding their wasted depths
With tempests of seafarers' bitter regrets:
Tossing in bed alone next to their spouse
Hoping against hope they'd only reach out,
Breaking the silence with a leg or some such,
Bucking in surprise at the softest touch.
Broken in twain upon the mast
Is no less what happened in the past.

Remember to ever be.

Unmindful. Unheedful. Wrathful. Hateful.
Successful. Shitful. Sinful. Sightful.
Kindful. Happyful. Sadful. Madful.
Helpful. Hopeful.

Remember to ever be:

Unmindful of the screaming kids,
Unheedful of the souls that dream,
Wrathful of the mind that builds the pyramids,
Hateful of the eyes that gleam.

Successful types in business snipes,
Filling their seats with shitfuls till they're threadbare,
Sinful thoughts building prototypes,
Filling the skies with sightfuls of nightmares.

Kindfully abrogate responsibility,
Happyfully take away another's joys
Sadfully inform the next of kin of life's absurdity
Madfully execute those in your employ.

I hope you find this present guide so helpful
As you ever were so artfully hopeful.

And remember to ever be.

Life upon the Floors

Deep. Delve. Dove. Door. Shore. Shoal.
Shell. Shelved. Shelled. Shelling. Selling.
Barter. Garter. Bitter. Biter. Bitter.
Fighter.

Deep beneath the ocean floor
There lives a witch
And nothing more
Delving deep in midnight pitch
Plumbing depths of starry life
Seeking doves in drunken ditch
Making sacrifice to love & strife
Tempered by being called a bitch.

Doctors open on the ocean floor;
In succession, gawkers gather,
Standing grimly, seeking solace on the shore
Gazing into sunken shoals they flatter,
Finding shells of things that we abhor:
Hard-won husks from sunken hearts a-tatter,
Children shelved, their tearful smiles ignored,
Till they're shelled by parents too grown to matter.

Selling hollow, younger faces
To prisons, patrons, paters galore;
Bartering their youthful, gainful paces
Until their garters gather something more,
Garnering only just enough attention
To retire their aching sphincters from the fore
Collecting their ever-rotting pension
From off the fustian floor.

Abandoning their young upon the floor.
Too cold to leave, too grown to sleep,
Picking themselves from off the floor.
Somehow finding ways to keep
Their bitter bitters inside their helpless sores
Driving them to biting hands that leaps
To feed their bitter maws something more.
Fighting the urge that makes them weep
And turns babes a-baeuty into naught but gore.
I think I'll sleep upon the floor.

Funny Hats

Dead. Deal. Dolt. Dole.
Hole. Whole. Heap. Peep. Creep.
Crawl. Beg. Utter. Shutter. Shudder.
Sunder.

The dead have never struck a deal.
They cannot sing to hear
Nor cry to laugh nor see their way to feel.
And dolts are no more better
While seeking gainful occupation
Pursuing doles inside of holes
From churches' indoctrination.
Receiving sinners' sins and pates,
A heap of bodies awaiting mates
Peeping creepily from among the shores
They cannot crawl from you anymore
They beg and barter, pawning souls
Uttering pious hymns while they are consoled
By stuttering men in funny hats
Who shutter any friendly spates
All the while I start to shudder.
As the world begins to sunder.

Heroines

Juice. Joys. Jealous. Jealousy. Heresy. Hera.
     Hero. Heroic. Stoic. Stoicism.
Pragmatism. Practical. Practice. Practice. Practice.
     Break. Back. Balk.

The juiciest joys, the sullenest sighs,
Make jealous the zealous, who cry,
Jealously: "Heresy!"
Who know nothing
No, not a thing
of Hera or heroes
or how heroines arose.
From sudden, blitzkrieg heroics
To silent, passive stoics
A practice of stoicism
Never led to pragmatism
A practical exchange
With ever the same refrain
Which stems from the adage:
Practice, practice, practice.
Break you sullen creatures
Back with your stead-fast features
Balk, I beg you
"Never," said you.
Very well.
Stand atop your mountain
And build a better bastion.
I wish you well.

Association Experiment IV

Work, work, work, woke, woe,

woes, walls, was, wars, roars,

rose, ruse, rues, rise, ryes, lies,

leyward, weyward, woeward, westward,

toward, forward, foreward, forewarned,

post warned, fore word, prologue,

what’s past, what’s post, what’s now,

what is, what, what, what, w-

Work, work, work

Work wearies the weary soul

Work wearies the wary old.

None to do

And none to hold

The wayward, weyward sister.

Onward and froward

She casts her Self

She castes herself

Oneward and upward

She finds some help

She founds some Hell.

She warns no one

She warps a nun

Down and down she fell

Until she knelled

Association experiment III

Goodness. Godness. Gold. Guild. Guilded.

Guiled. Beguiled. Behaved. Behooved.

Behold. Behind. Beknight. Bespeak.

Kind. Dread. Dead. Doom. Moon. New.

Ghoul

Speak. Sick. Dick. Dyke. Poke. Pike.

Pile. Pill. Will. Wall. War. Was. Walk.

Talk. Tall. Tire. Tired. Wired. Warred.

Good as gold

They said of me.

Polite as of old

And what a delight to see.

"A pleasure in class"

They wanted me to be.

"A right royal ass"

was all I could think of me.

They calmly all fled

Through kindness to me

Filling me with dread

And showed me what a good boy should be.

Association experiment II

Fear. Far. Cry. Cripple. Crow. Cry.

Creep. Reap. Row. Row. Ruse.

Lose. Lock. Lie. Life.

Lies lacing love inside my mind

Babbling within others of my kind

Laughing at my innards in a coffin of my making

My Mother hangs the decorations

Of my anti-celebration

Inciting incidents left, right, and

Sent her away from me and mind

Hardly matters in the long

Haul away the engagement

Ring the wedding knells

Pack up the baby carriage

With all the wasted semen

Pissed it all away

To those who couldn’t care for me

I’m spending every dime I have to see

A broken, run down

Accident

Waiting to happen for me

Association Experiment

Beauty. bees. best. less. kind. carol.

cool. look. see. find. found.

care. king. king. offspring. heir. love.

seen. sound. soon. sign. stem.

grow. green. growth. grown.