untitled found poem - wordy exercise might surprise

melodies marauding messages

applauding man- hiding

behind mirrored awnings

manly voices, violent vices

masculine music, masks like a lion

canoes are colliding

roars in your elbow

bows at the choir

reeks and perspires -

masked deceptions, played like a pirate

packed in a suitcase, led to an island

maniacal hobbit trapped like a pigeon

caged in a door jam

pounced from a dungeon

Hearsay -

I say

he said that I’ll pay

heretic

predicates

as he insinuates

pretense is self-hate

perpetuates, manipulates

twists his fatal

choices can’t quite liberate that

itchy nose irritates

take back that angry day

no longer in a trance

he sank his only chance

fat chance he’ll understand

how I can take a stand

put him in that exiled place

I will not, cannot oscillate

who needs to populate?

allow others to manipulate!?

fuck that!

not willing to smile and wait!!

clings to his tribal ship –

plank – splat, he fell from it

scratched from decaying waste

landfill of mashy taskmasters

slip past the wolf’s fierce claws

untangle mired laws

stick to that band of mine

tear off the scab to

heal, dry the crying eyes

drink some wine

take some time