Category: Brown Book
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the flash of light
i sit and stare out the window knowing where they are i wait to see the columns rising climbing near and far i check the news i wait for you the notice of pending disaster the flash of light the blinding sight sending us ever after from water to steam from flesh to ash we…
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Scabs
a life of numbness a future looking bleak sometimes to feel at all it’s pain that i seek when i was a child i learned from my mother to pick a scab feels good to pick another, and another can i dig to bone scratch, scratch, scratch never seem to know scratch, scratch, scratch the…
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Infinite Machine
born and killed alive and dead everything always inside my head deja vu through and through footprints match you and you groundhog’s day but i can’t stay won’t go that way can’t throw my pay never again but every time nothing clever my every crime imagination contamination revelation lonely nation love shown out hate punched…
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Welcome to Life
ashes in the soil a heart full of hope life up through a coil a neck squeezed by rope kill them all for food death must fuel the living rise above the good win the duel, keep moving the millions spoiled for the glory of a few the workers toiled for the comfortable you for…
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Cyclic Thinking
this infinite machine inside of me fucking everything thoroughly no matter who i try to be it rages on destructively I need and bleed and read and plead but total shit keeps flooding me it clogs my mind and wrecks my soul it drains my heat and leaves me cold in times of desperation my…
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Thirty-Five
I never expected to live to thirty-five I anticipated death with bleeding eyes Cold and alone while none realized Nobody remembering me to eulogize Every year beyond that a free play While self-hate within a stowaway My brain churns in radioactive decay Ignoring I feel I’ve overstayed I watch from the outside As inside I feel…
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Talking To The Dead
hello there don’t fake a smile your age shows around your eyes i let out a deep sigh i’m awake again. the dream wasn’t any better but if my heartbeat could have stopped i could have gone to what’s next but there you are need to take a shower maybe i’ll black out crack my…
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Dying Outward
the dark within rotting up through the skin making my heart slow down and my mind speed up while unable to give a fuck i look around town, driving down to pick up the next person who might make me forget for a second laughing and talking about the world that i forget i am…
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Black At Noon
Back and forth Glance at the screen The mind a fire Burning all I’ve seen Back and forth The sun up high The air is still The demons cry Back and forth The swing moves on The child smiles All hope is gone Back and forth To keep that joy As hundreds die The drones…
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How Do I Care?
Your words ring hollow Like nothing at all Your mind looks shallow Like a fucking cheap doll I thought it was different A better direction But it isn’t pretty A zitty complexion I’ve been wrong before But with things less important I read you like a book But I was seeing distortion The mirror a…