rendition { part deux } : part predator, part prey
passion : the (oc)cult of jouissance
surrender : like neural pathways to heroin; adorn my mind like an opiate head-rush
conversation : lend me a glimpse into the jewelbox of your cognitive opulence
rains : weather is a dealer rushing filled syringes to every inch of starved skin of greed
war : my sword taut in accordance with its ravenous hunger: darkling, let this keen steel return to your bloodrot a stainless repose
beauty : the epochal antiquities that are your wounds demand your body's gradual turn to a museum
math : the theorem of divine automata
suicide : you are your own fugitive
bombay : seen through satellite eyes, coruscating motherboard, wired polarities; the architecture of antithesis
sext : oedipus loves umami
kitsch : monsoon ebbing an aquarelle of anemones
slate : interiorisation of the grey beyond
addiction: a chemical tyranny; haunted by habit
plan b: entering his name in a virtual thesaurus to rank synonyms as available replacements
love : in complete darkness these conch shell ears capturing the cadence of your tired feet climbing up after a long day
want : within you a craving rushes forth like guillotine
self : the black pulse of thanatos; what is natural is always primal
murder : the cruelest act of intimacy
religion : societal superego
meaning : domestication of awareness
kiss : an appetizer
evolution : a firm belief in extinction as the natural order of things devoid of saviours or judgment
artist : the blind aesthete
feeling : you move me { like a hurricane annihilates civilization }
living : white noise hung soft between the notes of existence & endurance
cognisexual : attracted to intellectually gifted people only
profiling : less DSM, more chess
absinthe : that delicately morbid blur where my deviance enters the enamoured territory of full fledged perversion
follow : the haul of ships stitching the fabric of sea to horizon's contours
demise : this wish to fall like a giant sequoia; a determined army of beetles marching respect over my withered limbs
secret : the ground where we buried the lyrebird cracked like the sky in july & birthed a choir of berry shrubs that hymn with the wind
violence : a 12 year old child's awareness of the precise heat at which a razor burns fresh odes upon flesh
time : the hour glass is a möbius strip
bridge : the ellipsis of afterthought entered as a steady row of stepping stones ...
dusk : the day folded like an origami swan
letters : a menagerie of my father's smiles saved in the makeshift attic of dots and dashes
roses : a hundred sleeping coral tongues dreaming of ways to pronounce the scrawl of sunlight
imagination : a serpent sauntering through the ruins of spectral addresses
writer : half predator, half prey
identity : a personal palestine
age : addressing all archetypes through ardent arson of the known world
discovery : the abyss is an ocean interred
gravity : impatient the tug of moon's sunk into the ruched lace of these waves
disappearance : consider me camphor
end : always an interim