Tourniquet Murderplot

The rat-ridden prodigy reaches out for the blackness within the blackness-- Inventing lead roles for enemies, bit parts for lovers,

Worldwise

They’ve engineered a manhunt for my alter ego!!! I’m running on the fumes of reason & being force-fed sanity as supplement to a steady diet of nothing

Alamentosa

Brought up to beg for bread & water Raised just to be brought down to earth I am but mortal man Never have I been myth nor legend Nor of blood-red royal birth

Shake Down The Shack She Calls Confusion

Reason shouts to the high hills Through the jaws of a kid sister’s plastic doll; Green slime in its hair and eyes Dead spiders stuck between its teeth

Race-Riot Hit Parade

The voice of all flesh of all faith speaks now In neutered rasps that belie a once-transcendent state Now sputtering out the final fumes of a formerly almighty intellect

Drowning Blue

I’ve been nowhere I’d love to have been before I’ve met no one who I’d rather be I know as much as I’m known to no other More than no one no other than me

Drowning Blue

I’ve been nowhere I’d love to have been before I’ve met no one who I’d rather be I know as much as I’m known to no other More than no one no other than me

Catholic Schoolgirl Eyepatch Mode of Self-Preservation

Cornered now in the rancid clutch of undesired offspring; Coiled under steel sheets & praying for a termite rain Stabbed in the back by friends I never knew I had

Frigid Antihero

Night’s frigid anti-hero Swings atop the same rafters from which it hangs its chosen noose Swaddled in the same star-kissed garb as the Manger Child

Look at Me

except I am part of terra firma a native son

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