Twisted
Green and Blue
Picking veins from jaundiced sleeves
Watching holocausts through bloodshot eyes and ecstasy
All of my highs fall on lowered ceilings
Freefall to a fathomless pit

My conversations turn Dylan-esque, I am the joker and the thief
I am a klepto of broken proverbs, spitting with a jester's tongue
Spewing forth a gallow's humor
Downing a shot of clarity

Hiding in the smoke and mirrors, wordy dweomers
Five years blind in a three-fold maze
Foglit streets of a purple haze
I wish to drown in nihilist thoughts and
Kafka's metaphors

...Man is beast is man...

I am neither and both....nothing and everything
Chewing on the verbose spine of a philosopher's ruminations
An enlightened revelation of
Cranium pestles grinding agnostic mortar
My alchemical requiem for illumination

Bleeding poetry for release, wearing lips painted black
Kissing the ass of Jack Kerouac
Making sweet love to ink stains on a page...

Find me later in Alexandria's library of mislaid prose
I will be Elizabeth's "Future Foe"
Traveling to Canterbury with Chaucer
Instead...

I am stranded when the Nile ran east and west
And Cleopatra wore a feathered mask
And Persia was more than a carpet
Tread upon me, I am stained in angst

Fermenting in formaldehyde dreams of grandeur
I have never met a lesser soul
If I could only find mine
A trilobite encased in fossil form, inside a shell of amber
Exploding behind the sunlit gaze
When I wanted to be the eighth wonder
More grandiose than the Collossus of Rhodes
Instead of a pawn on a miniature chessboard

I want to be the algorithm that unlocks a cryptographer's
Wet dream of Rosetta stone cyphers
Not a fifth grade multiplication table
Or a discarded artifact broken
When archaeologists search for gold

I thought I would become the gilded idol of revivescent thought
No more, though I implore
Still speak your mind, so someone's voice is heard...

This is my origami swansong
Folded into everything I wish I was, am, or will be
My paper-mache dragon already spilled, hollow and broken
Unworthy of your eyes...

...This is my goodbye.