Ever since being born Death has been there .
Never seen, however .
Never seen, however .
Ready, set :
To go
At a moments notice .
The air between the stars billows
Black, and swallows any shimmer .
*[ WSB ].
Eight Chapters and an Epilogue
Rocks are a library of history .
Microfossils in fissures,
Bubbles of bacteria :
Protozoans that came
Before the Cambrian .
Eukaryotic hammer of the gods
Cracking the carbon floodgate,
But in the record :
Death is no wider than a knife edge .
Microfossils in fissures,
Bubbles of bacteria :
Protozoans that came
Before the Cambrian .
Eukaryotic hammer of the gods
Cracking the carbon floodgate,
But in the record :
Death is no wider than a knife edge .
*[ WSB ].
Testes
Beans in a bag,
They constrict and they sag ;
Walk, and they wag .
They constrict and they sag ;
Walk, and they wag .
*[ WSB ].
Wrong, All the Time
The wrong thinker tinkers,
Wheel out of round . Twisting spokes
To straddle fences, rattling
With spinning plates downtown .
Wheel out of round . Twisting spokes
To straddle fences, rattling
With spinning plates downtown .
A tired juggler .
A spurting performance
Of ergs out of sync :
Misspoken symbols clash .
Back and forth futility
Crashes to the ground:
The stage indifferent .
*[ WSB ].
Might As Well Jump
Rudderless and bilging
: The bedraggled rats
Stagger from worn rigging
Into the ragged sea .
: The bedraggled rats
Stagger from worn rigging
Into the ragged sea .
*[ WSB ].
SCROTUS 6
S Supreme
C Court
R Reprobates
O of
T the
U United
S States
6 six of them .
C Court
R Reprobates
O of
T the
U United
S States
6 six of them .
“ The pruning of justice ™ ”
The Good Fight
Canned cant can’t cancel canon .
Cangue candyflossing candidates
Candlesnuffing candescent
Canny canto cantillations .
Cannonade cankerworms cantic .
*[ WSB ].
Thermostat
Running hot
Engine in the steam of Hell ;
Jingle valve ringing
Like a Christmas bell :
Off a geothermal vent,
Unbolt the vat .
To trap the devil,
Change the thermostat .
Engine in the steam of Hell ;
Jingle valve ringing
Like a Christmas bell :
Off a geothermal vent,
Unbolt the vat .
To trap the devil,
Change the thermostat .
*[ WSB ].
Mudder
Dauber dots the air,
Hangs gossamer in the glare,
Lands : suddenly square .
Abdomen levers extended on thread
For breath and transfixing spiders undead .
Hangs gossamer in the glare,
Lands : suddenly square .
Abdomen levers extended on thread
For breath and transfixing spiders undead .
*[ WSB ].
Moon Pummel
Whether black or blue, the
Moon of never-healing bruise
Tours ever reeling .
Moon of never-healing bruise
Tours ever reeling .
*[ WSB ].
Occupation : Poet . 