[2015] White Noise

      
I scream;              
larynx tearing at the seam              
             
Trying to shout;              
only choked warblings come out              
             
I dream;              
nightmarish world crowding all about              
             
Me?              
Will I wake up?              
Unsettling, doubt        
creeps into this ...              
             
dome              
             
Sad place you call,      
       
Home              
             
where playground grass        
never is growing;        
an artificial turf untouched        
by children in to-ing and fro-ing              
             
Quothing, the Raven sings              
crowing his Edgar Allen Poe-ing              
upon entering the Story Space              
and bursts into flame -             
shrieking              
shriking              
plummeting to the ground---              
charred beak, singed feathers              
landing upon my face                
             
White Noise;              
deadly radius of superficial static              
while locked away in dusty attic:              
vibration unvocalized into words              
             
White Noise;            
spiraling down from the sky              
lame magpied fried---            
scorched scores of dying blackbirds              
             
I fail to scream              
This is where sonnetry goes to die!              
             
Can't shout              
Where lyricality commits suicide!              
             
Trapped inside              
youth crying to be let out              
bloodying their crippled fists              
against rusty hinged attic doors              
             
Through cobwebbed keyholes              
wild eyed blind boys peep              
while the pigeon-toed deaf girls              
weep              
             
White Noise!              
Where the locals can be heard              
discouraging poetry from being              
put forth into word              
broadcast as song              
pretending life is normal              
as if nothing is wrong              
all along            
going about their lives              
chanting         
White Noise        
             
Impenetrable is the sound barrier              
White Noise      
              
Downing any feathered message carrier              
White Noise          
               
Death to each and every dirty bird              
White Noise          
         
Drowning out the ugly truths              
desperate to be seen and heard          
            
White Noise