I’ve had a few encounters with the ladies recentlyJust to rediscover my body and assess its efficacyAfter a life as a monk and eight years of celibacyWith sideburns greying and pushing fiftyAnd nerves fried by PTSDI found that the passion I’m made for has to … Continue reading The Paladin Gangsters
Burning down belowThe itch of self-destructionDecades without compunctionThe interminable rabid pony show Better as a consecrated religiousThoughts were more prestigiousFar less desperate and superstitiousLess fraught with consternationLess submersion in self-flagellationLess gasping with desperation The wound the Dutch ripped openBlasted heat from an emotional ovenBut the … Continue reading Monk Five to Pilgrim Seven Checkmate
She isn’t going to callYou’re just going to have to fallIt’s just a crystal ballYou’re supposed to lose hope It doesn’t mean you don’t have a futureIt just means your future will be without herCinderella man come out of your cornerLet go of the rope … Continue reading Valkyrie
No prince of poetry or prose has ever conjured the words that describe what I need to say to you now. I’ve checked. Yes, you are forgiven. No forgiveness has ever been warranted. I understand your situation. It’s so hard to be who you really … Continue reading The Letter
The ancient wizard ambled slowly and deliberately down the coil of stairs that lined the inside of the stone walls which formed the skin of his remote spindle of a tower situated at the edge of the land, standing precariously before the sun on a … Continue reading Noah, Part Two
The village girls stand in the streetHiking up their camel toesRehearsing their Tik Tok videosChecking out their bare midriffs Their mouths defecate interminable blatherEvery man who smiles at them is an attackerThey giggle about it and imagine themselves desirableThis is how they convince themselves they … Continue reading The Village Girls
I stand before you enveloped in undulating wavesWeaving like flickering tongues my scarlet himation of shameLike a moth bobbing in a sparkling daisy chain of an immolating dazeBefore an inevitable and unquenchable yet purifying flame Crowned a sagacious teacher of the ancients for the ancient … Continue reading Gazing Upward
Your meandering mind is an ostentatiously fabricated sword with a double edgeEvery thought is a fevered recapitulation of Pascal’s wager engendered with an urge to hedgeYour necrotic toes curl with impetuous anxiety over the precipice of a rusted razor’s ledgeCastrated by the scissor-tongued fear of … Continue reading Wavering Departure
In these last days, when my body’s own adrenalineCauses a cup of coffee to hit me like methamphetamineAnd I have no idea what I am to doMy hope is that the breeze will bring me just one bubble of you The dogs of hell bereaved … Continue reading The Bubble of You
Noah’s ark has sailedThat endeavor failedIf God wants me in the Holy LandHe’ll have to outstretch his mighty handThis is no cause for a conniptionIt was just a matter of transcription Until he can conjure a personal elfThere are places he won’t go by himselfTherefore, … Continue reading Campeona de la Ciudad