Simply Ghastly

Exclamation point stare
Drop jaw prickle scalp
halt shift rubber neck
shudder fun hide fast

Fashion faux pas.

Ever-Fixed Mark

Development/growth/expansion
are too scientific/economic
for the language of love -
They exclude from its vision
possibilities of remaining/eternally
with him/forever.

Industrial Consumption

A burning intensity consumes all
except the mounting debris of loose
carbon ash and dreams
swept into the wastepan tucked
neatly underneath the sterile desk
of your conscious thoughts.

Pity Bath

What does not break you leaves you bitter
I watched that expression before
a mingling of resentment and bleeding wounds
revealing your past upon that sketch blank.
History claws into your heart
staining the delicate future hope.
Play that self-pity chord again
Pull the empathy from the crowd
Would their shallow mourning lessen the burn?
How can they know - How you have suffered -
Wasn't it all against the rules?
So life's not fair (not fair)
(but a future's beautiful).
Shake those bitter scales let them fall as dead
forsake them for hope.
A sketch blank renewed.
I watched that expression before
what does not break you leaves you with a
past.