This Dali Symphony

By NeroMatches

In this city, there is a mouth that yawns during the drug-eyed dawn,

during the hour of its twilight needles and its glass slide crack carried by the laboratorial pound hungry for veins

staggering wasted along the underage clubhouse parties held every night in Acropolis,

where the innocent are wrecked with flowing alcohol and where most of the virgins are auctioned off as victims to drowsy valium and holy hangovers near the subdivision playgrounds

craving for a little coffee and tonic, praying that they wouldn’t go home drunk with the smell of filtered cigarettes,

paradoxically afraid of appearing as the incarnates of heroin and lust, walking like transvestites molested by Warhol on a busy street crawling with Fords and SUV's

as they drive back to their mothers and fathers, eyes red and mouth gaped open,

that same mouth in the morning which tastes of stale tobacco and bad wine, breathing that voice which basks in the lies covering up the malice and the sin it bathed in last night

using that very same tongue which pierced through the ears of its lovers and pierced through the shaking lips of anorexic girls wearing skirts

climbing up boondocks of beer bottles and cocktails with vodka mixed with morphine mixed with death mixed with wisdom and stupidity and artistry and death again

doomed forever at its first taste with the lingering decapitations of those who know the travesties of the universe, of those who know the names of the vagrant stars boozing around the ocean skies at night

with the lost moons pounding their way out of the galaxy, scratching on mental infinity and emptiness in search for reason.


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Published on Sunday, May 21, 2006.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • FadedBlues On Thursday, August 9, 2012, FadedBlues (2169)By person wrote:

    ...Dali alone could paint this into surreality...

  • Dominic On Wednesday, August 8, 2012, Dominic (54)By person wrote:

    This is absolutely incredible. I am in awe.

  • A former member wrote: "that same mouth in the morning which tastes of stale tobacco and bad wine" I love your descriptive layering, the red raw wrecked molested flowing energy of this poem. The rhythm in the tenth verse is extremely effective. You have captured the Polaroid universe of the city's hard, hard underbelly quite well. This is Daliesque & symphonic. Well done!

  • A former member wrote: More than a mouthful, for sure, but fucking fabulous..bends about the bracket of the mind only to end up wherein stretches the unfathomable. Brilliant as ever.

  • Mari On Thursday, June 1, 2006, Mari (425)By person wrote:

    okay....so your not crazy...big deal

  • A former member wrote: very stunning, very awesome write `Tamara

  • A former member wrote: "craving for a little coffee and tonic, praying that they wouldn’t go home drunk with the smell of filtered cigarettes" this was both wise and beautiful..such aching truth, profound and marvelous. and such an amazing conclusion.

  • AniDayz On Sunday, May 21, 2006, AniDayz (820)By person wrote:

    youre absolutely incredible. a mindbend of such addictive desire for ...meaning washed down with desire in such chaining ways whiting out blackspells and .life. itself. in essence, humankind lost and pretntiously found. youre absolutely divine.

  • Any On Sunday, May 21, 2006, Any (39)By person wrote:

    That's interesting, very, very interesting. Especially this first sentence.

  • Wolk On Sunday, May 21, 2006, Wolk (55)By person wrote:

    I like this one.

  • NeroMatches On Sunday, May 21, 2006, NeroMatches (49)By person wrote:

    Acropolis is a village where all the students of exclusive schools party by the way.

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