The Cat’s Pajamas

I see grimaced, charred faces,

Aflame in a sea of mullets.

I see children and elephants,

Covered in paraffin wax.

Entertain us!

As only you can.

Set us ablaze,

Your mind numbed fans

Cause it’s the great white meltdown.

I see pyrotechnics sparkling,

But I don’t see an exit.

I see the band,

But these stars and stripes aren’t forever.

Entertain us!

As only you can.

Set us a blaze,

Your mind numbed fans

Cause it’s the great white meltdown.

I see the lead singer,

But they fired the guitarist.

I see mothers and clowns,

Digging out daughters.

Entertain us!

As only you can.

Set us a blaze,

Your mind numbed fans

Cause it’s the great white meltdown.

I fell into a three ring fire,

Went down, down, down,

And the crowd screamed higher,

And they burned, burned, burned,

In a three ring fire,

In a three ring fire.

Is it just me,

Or is it hotter than a Great White concert in here?

Only to touch the sky,

And hold the sun in my hand.

The fresh smell of smoldering flesh,

Would pervade the polluted air,

Of the pathetic earth.

And the rotting bodies shriek,

While maggots tear at their flesh.

A mother’s foot

Shall fall upon a roach,

She will smile at the sound of the body

Crunching beneath the massive weight,

When nearby,

Her child dies.

This planet reeks with the smell

Of those once loved,

All forgotten,

As death approaches our own.

We drown in other’s blood.

The framework falls,

The buildings collapse.

Daisies die

While weeds grow higher and higher.

No more sunlight,

They have taken over.

Evil conquers,

Killing all things good,

Never to change.

We have created our own hell.

We cry peace

With destruction and war our own products.

The fish drown in the sea

While flies fornicate on our lunch.

The disease is spread.

We made our own bed,

And we must die in it.

URRAHAHAHAHA!

The beast laughs.

What craziness you speak!

You actually think we can change?

We are imprisoned in our own madness,

And nothing can be done.

Evening came,

Passed away

Dead of night

Of another day.

Silently,

I watched you.

Got a feeling,

Anxiety.

I wanted to beat you,

Like a bongo drum,

With eyes closed and screaming

Stop it, stop it, stop it,

Stop!

But you won’t hear me.

My words hit stone resentment

And bounce into nowhere.

You deny me.

Our friendship you shatter.

Friendship?

No, there’s more.

I love you.

You are my brother.

Was it something I said?

I mean you well,

You worry me so.

Listen to me.

Me, a sea monkey

In your glass of tea,

Yelling about Jesus and LSD.

Please swallow me,

That I might swim inside you

And eat your pain.

Please swallow me.

Gone, dear God, it’s all gone.

The freedom I possessed

To dance

In the sunshine

Through the misted morning grass,

Ripped from beneath my feet.

She controls me.

I scream through my green eyes.

The rain whispers my lullabies.

I sleep,

And in my dreams I am free.

Bathed in freckled sunlight,

Upon quilted grass,

Violet played with her toys,

And in a bordering nation

A King played with his.

“Should the Knight move now,

And to where shall he move?”

Whispered the King to the wise men.

But in the lollipop mind of Violet

Circled innocent thoughts,

Of a child, and school, and a husband,

All pretend.

The King made his move,

Rook to attack opposing Queen

But what of the violet that played in the park?

The Pawns had crept into the city,

A misdirected shot

Shattered the blossom in her purple dress.

Red complements showered the grass

And the violet withered.

“Checkmate!” cried the King,

And the game was over.

Preoccupied with myself,

I’m tortured by my mind,

Happiness, all nothingness,

Yet mortality I cannot find.

Hanging on to yesterday,

Like a child clings to a toy,

Killing life, this living death,

My soul never knowing joy.

Paranoia is my master,

Filled with fearful thoughts,

I’ve imagined my security,

They’ve uncovered all my faults.

Falling from nowhere,

While safely on the ground,

Screaming words of hatred,

With silence the only sound.

Seeing an illusion,

Believing all my lies,

Killing things that don’t exist,

Refusing to hear their cries.

Self destruction,

All reality,

Nothing left but pain,

Living in a nightmare,

I fear I’ve gone insane.

As chance permits

I still a glance

Into thine eye’s vast galaxy.

My shoved soul

A star to love

My self unravels into thee.

Thy warm embrace

Protects me from

This fierce world like familiar.

My parted lips

Beg kiss mine heart

Flabbergasted with thine humor.

Rawhide and Bloody Bones

With a skeletal grin

And a terrible moan

Rawhide and Bloody Bones

Coming for you

When you’re all alone.

Rawhide and Bloody Bones

Chewing off skin

With a ghoulish groan

Rawhide and Bloody Bones

Wearing your flesh

‘Cause his skin is gone.

Your pranks and your

Mischief are always known

By Rawhide and Bloody Bones

I am here, but I am not.

I stand in the shadows of the belonging

Trapped by four solid walls

Built by my own fucked emotions.

I can no longer endure

The turmoil of my solitary hell.

Screams of a near psychotic

Increase upon deaf ears.

The pain of desertion

Blinds my tearing eyes.

I madly claw for an exit from the human race.

Many maggots have matured into flies

Since I last touched

The key to happiness

And now I discover it lying at my feet.

I pick it up.

I hold it in my possession,

Clench it tightly between my toes,

Yet problems seem everlasting.

The key doesn’t fit

With the imagined perfection.

Groundless trepidations

Swarm my mind

Like red ants on a dying worm.

What if the locks open,

And I step through the doorway

Only to find the ground isn’t solid?

What if the door slams shut

As I disappear into the void below?

Are my fears justifiable?

Or am I simply paranoid,

Terrified of loosing my existence,

Terrified of loosing you,

For you are my existence.

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An emerald form upon liquid rubies

_____lay crushed on the road

_____created by man’s destructive behavior.

_____

And behind a black veil a crystal tear

_____down a female cheek

_____shatters itself on the hard pavement-

_____

The grave-site of her child.

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