Bitch Beach

5.26.12


Bitch Beach


Through the deranged creations of my youth
With sullen strangeness was I suit

When sleep was balm to the fears that creep
Blackness stalks
Call up faults
Anger breeds - stutters, halts
The calm I bleed with bitter frost

I had no proof of wandering shoots

Tell me - do cats dance on hot tin roofs


Dark of the moon and blackened by suns
Solar eclipses when it unstrapped and swung

Sand was strain of man in pain
Dust from palms-heads hang in shame
Hearts go hard encased in grain

No innocence where it hung

By "to be's" was where I was stung

And 'out' was the only thing strung


Vegas strips in the sands of nevada
Time passed on with movado

Emotions now green, avocado

The band played on, latex drawn
Nooses, necks, fingers, sweat
Hammock's rest til after sunsets

Bug bites, dark lights
And drunken sniff tests

Tongues slipped knots in the hands of muttata

Well-dressed jealous burns blacker and hotter


What once was drops
When touched - got hot
Watched as he unleashed her keys

Saltwater blink, sun rays shrink
Sink in the stink-though I jet ski'd

Double dreaming escape as the trap-eze'd


Ocean of love
littered with rocks
Stages, cackles, cane and pot
Cages, shackles, chains and shocks

And after all of that, now I just dread
.......locs.


Pity portions during the driving storms

Now-saw into the breach
Drip drying out there on the beach

Huntsmans slain
Flowers stained
Words go dry
as desert plains
Southern comforts left out of reach

At the 'swing' of it felines transformed

With the new knowledge that this is the norm