Brand "X" , and ACME, poems and stories. Surreal, sappy, funny, horrific, and human.
mental health
Doctor Doctor
cigarette burnsunder the sheets the temporary bee stingsof random needlings pinpoint pricks purposely playedbait for a loon’s scratchings mad reveries in broad daydraw attention to comic despair Oh Doctor DoctorCan’t you see me burning burningCan’t you see me burn?
MoreDevil’s Waltz
Looks like we’ll dance once more,brother-in-arms.My accoutrements are lacking,now,and I must bear this bareness.Tear off a strip,if you will,or make the unkindest cut.But knowthat I’ve developed a tastefor immolation.
MoreI’m a frayed knot
Muffled. The world cannot get in. I can’t get out. A purchased illness to assuage another. Recycled thoughts, boring in their dirtiness. I devise a fool’s plan to use this tedium. A grand flourish. Since I have no sword, I’ll untie the Gordian Knot.
MoreThe root of a problem
It’s a bitter little thing. As I bid it adieu and sent it on its way, it spun a smoky path, bloodying the bystanders. Finding no hosts, and diminished in the seeking, on it travelled, parasitic in its contagion.
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