soldiers take the field foam swords and shields Costume City troops dressed in batman suits they paused for lunch at noon

strings that bind manipulate each step we take future, past, present-day threads tangling

mechanical horses line up at the g… riders clad in straps of leather contemplating their fate Akira Koike takes up pole positio… favored to win

gliding along the wavelength riding the sonic chain stomach acid, gutteral pain banister of razor blades backbeat drum machine

Sycophant milquetoast running from your brown nose Everyone superior looked down on in the mirror Apologetic worm

I pray every one of their children… Lord, make it so. I pray one of their sons murders them in cold blood, while the rest of their kids cover…

charred scents linger within the astronaut’s mind suits, boots, glove fingers leave scent memories behind reek of burnt toast and sulfur

I’ll never wake up next to her so, I hold her in my dreams. I dare not speak my heart, left my thoughts in sleep. we sit upon a park bench

Flutter of conure wings a young girl sings leaning on the railing of her apartment balcony home from her date

Uniform yellow lines you stretch out to the curb. The lines that stretch in blue are already reserved. Long white lines stretching down t…

a porch light leads me home glowing bright like a lighthouse beam warning of the rocky shoals the farmland sky at night

breath of sky on her spine creeping, chilly blows flow down to her thighs the slightest summer wind

lava oozes down the peak the sweat and heat, my body quiver… glowing golden, burning streams blazing, globbing, gobbling flames hungry molten rivers

Lawn clippings left in my mouth Finest cheese weed Couldn’t produce a lick of saliva buzzing from the sativa August 12, 2023

Djarum special. Spice of smoke. On my porch, breathing tobacco and clove. 2pm, August 13, 2023.