Tuesday, March 28, 2017

too testicular to title


         (when was the last time you did something for the first time?

          -sammy hagar)

 

bar

live band

their jam

they defined

as gothic cabaret

unlike anything

i’ve heard before

 

i enjoyed it

because it was so original

 

the bartender

had made such a strong

irish car bomb

that i ordered a beer instead

on the second round

 

sat there amid the sound

of unhallowed ground

but this is the most normal

thing i’ve done in a long time

 

usually white sheeted ghosts

cover me while i have sex

in graveyards with a corpse

that couldn’t be given

a christian burial

 

my membranes

are decorative dust balls

clinging to the walls

of a skull

no anthropologist

will find

because when my actions

accomplish the ashes

of dust to dust

academics won’t teach my screech

scholars won’t dissect my reflect

even now no one is listening

 

the bar i had to leave

where i was the only one

not tattooed sleeved

because my addictive cigarettes

demanded i bet my life

against the l.a. lights

where neon sidewalks

are still a designated

smoking area in los angeles

for now

 

clean living in a dirty city

is the sacred cow

but l.a. is nothing if not

a melting pot of discrimination

 

the only way to know yourself

is in a mixed bag of treats

the last thing you eat

is it your favorite

or what you enjoy the least?

 

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