vacation
in a vacant
space, relate
to an empty hollow.

take up space
where loss
appreciates,
live by a motto.

no power
can reinstate
the replaced,
a take away that
waits to be followed.

outside
pearly gates,
time is a
born on date,
fill it up with
emptiness swallowed.

goblin in me,
gobbling internally;
gettin too large to see,
gobbling up fataly;
fueling nervous
frailties, severing
never nerve indices;
pain reigns to please,
goblin gobblin up defeat;
out takes taste savory,
plain to see,
night lost without
brave brevity;
gobble goblin frees
human debris.

insincere
disappear,
gone but
not forgotten
souvenir.

hold on dear,
held on too long;
her presence
perseveres.

a lottery won
via shear
atmosphere,
an apparition
apt to interfere.

our falling out
so cavalier,
a loss so severe;
her ghost haunts,
perpetually revered.

sacrificial
souvenir,
it’s hold is clear;
she appears
to always be here.

dead to me,
dead set to see;
dead realities.

dead evokes,
dead maladies;
dead awoke,
dead formalities.

dead to me,
dead in belief;
dead actualities.

dead desire,
dead capacity;
dead fires,
dead moralities.

dead to me,
dead mirrors see;
dead dualities,
deadly dead in me.

crossroads
delta dealt
death in Devil’s
cradled grave,
high water
rising where
wayward souls
had music made;
storm torn blues,
long night running;
stunning the
lightning strum
& thunder drumming;
strikes from
heartache felt,
she sings for
all men killed;
strung up by
the Devil’s
Bible belt.

raise the ghost sail,
death’s come ashore;
plague of bodies,
permeate the
devil’s morgue.

deck hands hail,
let down skeletal oars;
lethal lobotomies,
inseminate the
blackened bourg.

fiendish farewell,
from the corpses’ corps;
ruinous abnormalities,
ruminate the
forsaken shore.

I ponder to
relate —
satiated in
wait,
with my
provider of
secret shade;
as shadows
escape,
at the rate
that troubles
abate —
aways away
from first place
fates,
that stop on
intake;
once I enter
my third place.

write an essay,
the price of admission;
a registrar of old white men
looking for submission

write an essay,
police statement on permission;
men look the other way,
a fraternity house of perdition

write an essay,
but not on own volition;
assault a woman here,
essay counts as violator’s final sentence.