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Mother

You don’t even knowthe title, You Bitch. You don’t even wantthe title, You Bitch. You don’t even Deservethe title, You Bitch. 13, January 1990I’m Not Afraid of the Dark #2F i n n e g a n

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Under the Kingdom

In softly lit candle flamesurrounding Us like a Thousand Angels’ Eyes in theCaverns of Saint Veronica’s,She took my hand and led me downJacob’s Ladderinto a Dungeon of Hellish Delights.And swinging hooks with meaty chunks ofhuman flesh hung glistening, wetall around Usas We made Our way through the musical forestof dark iron chains.And Screamsrent the air […]

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Compassion

____________________________(for JC) I. Paper Heartsare as Easily cutas Stainless Steelwhen Burned Up by the Fire…It’s Cinder-Come-Easy,Love’s Easy Ashand All too simpleto make Judgementwithout having prior Experience(simply ProjectYour Own Perceived Valueand Focus theIllusion)Beyond That Much Icannot Say..My Sincerity is My AcceptanceMy Perseverance is My Compassionand My Masochism belongs to You… II. Last Night.When Dark Birds of […]

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The Passions of Man

I amthat all/that Call to Oneness/Thrusting fistand twisting lips/My Word, my Honor/Calls to myReflected Selves/I am/That Man/I am/ThatMan has the Shape of Heaven/shafts so Holy piercing round Him/Holy Holes and Heated Halos/I am/I am/RammingHome withBones so Cold/Taking himthe Love tofold Around Himselfin Times of Doubt/I am Mighty inthe Female/Mighty to the Shape of Birth/The Shapes […]

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Baila Con El Diablo

I holdclenched tightin my headan implosion of rageas red as Hell as mad as Hell as hot as Hell topay there is Hell to pay the Devil has cometo collect his Dues to pay the Devil has come to collectMy SoulMy Hatefrom scars under bleached burning holesI’m a black burning soulfalling deep down the dark […]

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A Hot Cup of Darkness

Whiteningin Seething Purity/are Deities/such Divinities/Mine Holy Hosts fallGrieving Empty Icy Ghosts/such Frost White Truth/dothSanitize Thee/Burn Me/Clean Me/Energize Me/Burns Me/Cleans Me/EnergizesAh/Heaven/Heaven O/Heaven O Healing/Ah/Heaven/Heaven O/Heaven So Healthytouch. my toes. dance. on the cieling. of this. bright mirth.in the light. birth.. that’s my. sanity thoustStealing/ (HypnoTechnoReptileSextile) Ah/Heaven/Heaven O/HeavenPlease Help Meprayers to Passing Messengers En Routeto Passing Senators […]

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Burning Secret

(Written in a Dark Whirl) The Insidious Secretsof Bloodare Sealedbehind My Lips/..Dark, dripping..Sleek, rippling…Twisting and DrivingDrilling and Burrowing,and Bulging Obscenely/..Something is Moving Between These Lines../..Something is Coming/..Coming Quickly/..blister,(BLAST)It is filled with Bad Blood—-boil, boil,(BUBBLE——-BLAST, BLAST!)It Swirls with Something Rotted./Spoiled LiquidsBe-fouled withViral Juices,Seething in Fever/…. The Insidious Secrets of Skinare Sealedaround my Bones,bleached Whitelike Light./Black like […]

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Wasted

P O E T R YF R O M  T H ED A R K   S I D ES E R I E S   # 3 From the Vast Farting ButtcheeksOf the Greed Demon GodComes His Final Expression of FeelingTo Shining Souls of the Pure/Unleashed and Released in Foul Waves,Hot Rank Spurts of […]

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The Dark Prince of Washington Heights

*for Chris Carter The Dark Prince ofWashington Heightsisa Manof very few words//He lives Visibly in a World where Envy,Hatred, Malice and Madness are Allceaselessly Projected at Him,and yet, He is calm//The Dark Prince of Washington Heightsrests Serene ahd Certain//for He is not at all Concernedwith Projections//He Wants Facts//and SickLittle Images teachNothing of Value to Him//The […]

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Hysteria

PoetryFrom TheBuffet Of Sickness,Series # 2   WILD HAIRED AND SNAKE-EYEDSHE SAT//SHRIEKING AT THE LIGHTS//SHINING ON HER//UNHOLY HOLD ON HIM//WHERE AND WHY IRRELEVANT TO HERAS SEEKING SUSTENANCEFOR HERSELFTIME STANDS STILL//AND SHE’S BENDING TO KISS AND LICKHIS NECK//HER BEAUTY A HORROR TO HIM//HER ENVY ATHIS lNNOCENCE STABBING ATHER HEART, BUT HEARTLESSLY SHEPERSISTS// STILL HUNGRY//AS FORKED TONGUESLASHING OUT […]

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Queen Beast

I have Always WonderedWhat it would be liketo be a Gay White Male…. I Much Imagine Meand my Upwardly MobileTestosterone Teammatesgoing out to Fire Islandfor the weekend and lying Nude along somesandy Meat-Rackto let the Sun frysome Brownonto Our Fish-Belly-White Asses ……NOT thatWe have a Problem Being Caucasianor Anything like thatI mean We Have Black […]

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Strawberry Bitchblade

Like Alicefalling feet firstDown the DarkRabbit Hole She pitches Tent on the Brink of MadnessAt the cost of Her Self Respect…At the cost of Her Mental Hygiene ..At the cost of Her Freinds…This is The Last of Alice She can see of Herselfin the fragments of the Looking Glass She’sS h a t t e […]

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Consensus Reality

(WHEN IS TIME?) *FOR LAURIE ANDERSON SPIRIT FOUND FORMTHROUGH DESIRE/AS DESIRE FINDS FOCUS THROUGH FORMSDIFFERENTLY/DESIRE IS A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION,SEEMS TO INVOLVE ONLY FEELINGS,AND NO THOUGHT AT ALL/NOT THINKING OF ITSELF COMPLETELY REAL/DESIRE IS SEEMINGLY ACHIEVED THROUGH OTHERS/DESIRE IS NOTHINGBY ITSELF/THOUGH ALONEAND AFRAIDDESIRE IS/……………………OF SELF-DISCOVERY/FOR DESIREDOES NOT UNDERSTAND SPIRIT/AND SPIRIT IS INVISIBLE TODESIRE………………………./DESIRE ONLY APPEARS […]

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A Prayer In The Kingdom of Satan

This is a Prayer______ For the Final Hour/… For Our Lady of Steel Talons/I do not have a Vehicle../ The Mistress of Circumstances Beyond Our Control/… Our Lady of Sweet Flowers/pray with Us/splattered in the blood of Christ/is seething in Red Agonies____in this Prayer For The Final Hour/Drawn Breath on Wind________Takes Angels Wings/ Through The […]

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Fiend

Everyday in dry feverishInfernos of Lust I explode Destruction swiftly sweepingthrough my sensesand sensations of rigid, coldand Slime-darkened unfulfillingOrgasmreach out to grab my ballswith icy fangsand rip Them bloodyfrom my body Everydayin Brutal Enslavementto my horrid third leg, Veiny and stiffand Inflamed with Power Demanding my attention,Demanding your affection, thick, hardblood-engorgedmuscle at your Service Everyday,Everynight, […]

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Foundation

*FOR BILL SCORPIO (WILLIAM INGRAM), I MISS YOU I feel the Devil inside Mecrawling at the pit of my stomachin the depths of my bowelswhispering his carnal curse(that and) for the Very Meat I am (And Crave)to rot like animal shit from My BonesAnd I Pray for the Light of The SunFor the Devil begins […]

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Dark Burning Rain

Dedicated Respectfully to Robert Smith/Elisabeth Fraser/ Morrissey/Frankie Clinton/Simon Le Bon and Anne Rice A Lightstorm Rages Ablaze in HeavenTonightand in this Dark Cityof Intolerant Qualities of Lifeit is Raining Angelsand Demonsdown on the Damned inDark Seething Waveswhere Writhing in Agonyin the Brutal Assault ofD a r k B u r n i n g R a i nfrom […]

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Nasty

*for Barbara Brady “Smile, You Miserable Bitch”I sayto the Old N a s t y Witchin The Cracked Mirrors Of PainVisibleOn Her Rage Walk to DeliverFuries Hookedto The She-Devil’s Triangle through Her Blood Flowing Rivers….and Smell Her N a s t y Hairy Bush…. “Smile, You Miserable Bitch!”I Laughat The She-BeastTrapped In a Tormented Past(She […]

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Worthless

You are living in the Same World I do,Speaking the Same Language,Watching the Same Television and Reading the Same Books, Papers and Magazines,Going to the Same Moviesand Riding The Same Planes. Trains and Automobiles as I,And You have Told MeIn Many Different WaysGood, Bad, AmbivalentIndirect and Insanely that You Love Meand Still Somehow You have […]

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Dark Burning Rain and Other Poems The Insidious Illusion of Choice

The Stars Beneath The World

English For Wazzi,       and Dr. Robert H. HERE I STANDUNDER THE STARS BENEATH THE WORLD                                                                IN A FANTASTIC   FUTURE STATE…                 CALLING TO YOU…                                  FALLING FOR YOU…/…                                                                                                       SKY BLUE HEAVEN……                             ALL         IS BLUE  THERE/..   CLOUDLESS HEAVENS…/..                                         LOVE          IS HEAVEN../..                             LOVE                             IS HEAVEN/…..WHERE I STAND NOW,                                    […]

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I Don’t Have to Scream Because She Screams For Me

English I JUST CAN’T TAKE       THE PROOF/….WHILE I HIDE FROM          THE TRUTH/..AND I DO MY LITTLE EGO DANCE/ …AND STRUT LIKE A GOOF/.. I CREATE MY OWN PAIN/..AND ITS HERE THAT I GAINALL THE SICKNESS AND THE SADNESS I INHERIT       FROM FAME/.. I BELONG WITH MY OWN//…AND THE PLACE I CALL HOME                 […]

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Sick Illusions of Life That Dream ( For They can Do Nothing Else)

English The Dreams     of MankindAre..//Was..//Must    be Denied//The ImpulseGenerally Described                   By Enlightened MindsAs Meaningless//Produce       the Illusory     Effects of Delay/And Is TragicallyThe Petty Senseless Process         which creates the Need for Time//The Impulse//The Impulse//The Impulse     […]

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Ode to a Crafty Faggot’s Low Self-Esteem

For Ray, and For Ohlen English Out of a quiet sense of lonelinessdid he undress and expressHis Ass… His Heart wasnot there/not in it/ not there to be known, held or had/..because He had eaten it outin envy andin Hatred of all his close associates. SecretlyYou See,He believed he was detestable, despicable and weakYou see,Secretly,He […]

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The Word, The Flesh, And The Devil

When you call up The Devilto curseanother,you cannot expect what you want…./…The Devil doesnot know how to behave,/..The Devil will not be politeand will certainlyturn you andyour world upside down….—–for that is but The Devil’s Purpose/..………………………………….to deceive you,and for you tomisuse and misperceive yourself and your worldthrough wrong and negative perception and thought./… The Devil […]

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Mis-Identified

“Don’t Use The Word“I”In Your Poetry For if You want to Write withReal Genius, Unique to You and withAll Your ImaginedInspired Freedom… come from a littleand smaller sense of meto work a senseof clearmastery in your poems…/ In other words,do them Like Me, You know, Just Like I Would/ Make Them Somethingabout Forms and Shapes […]

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Bitch Without a Wish Without a Fish Without a Bicycle

Never The Bitch/to makeScenes inthe Bar/Really Neverthe Bitch to be SEEN at the Bar/Drunk with rottenGreen Ghosts/And White Wine/so bizarre!/TankedOn Rotten Green Potion/and Blood Caviar/Tankedon Rotten Green Potionand Blood Caviar/Tanked Cause I’m Never The Bitch/causeI’m Never The Bitch/cause I’m Never the./Never THE/ Never The Bitchto make SCREAMAT the Bar/Cause I Never/ the bitch/well INever/ THE […]

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Poetry from the Feast of Fear: Hunger

PoetryFrom TheFeast of Fear# 5 “H u n g e r” *for the Artist formerly known as Melanie Myle                                                                            

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Poetry from the Feast of Fear: Twisted

PoetryFrom TheFeast of Fear# 4 “T w i s t e d” *for Adonis Fazekas with Love

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Poetry from the Feast of Fear: Frantic

PoetryFrom TheFeast of Fear# 3 “F r a n t i c” for Johnny Pavlou with love

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Poetry from the Feast of Fear: Nicks

PoetryFrom TheFeast of Fear# 2 “N i c k s” *…for the Man of My Dreams

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Poetry from the Feast of Fear: Scared

PoetryFrom TheFeast of Fear# 1 “S c a r e d” *for Jonathan Walsh, You Cannot Hide from Me Forever……

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The Dark Side of the Force

More PoetryFrom TheDark Side Series # 2

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A Butterfly is Dying

For Franco/… …… /…Bridgette Hughesand Special Dedications to Suzanne Vega, Philip Glass, and Micheal Nyman/

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Homeless

for Dahlia Lindsay

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The Insect God, Unchained

More Poetryfrom theDark SideSeries #7

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Nasty Little Creatures

Petites Créatures Méchantes… Pas de Visage// Elle prend les Ciseaux etCoupe des bouts de son visage dans le Miroir de la Salle de Bains//Elle épluche en outre de sa peau et laisse tomber son vieux visage non désirédans l’évier…//Elle tire le Sang pour la Beauté    Elle pense//Et Correctement// ceci attirera les Goules qui s’Appellent des […]

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Dunkelheit

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Secrets and Space

 *FOR ZOC

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Junk

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Fleiches Lust (Meat Lust)

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Terror

FEAR for Your Children and teach Them From The Cradle That They are Doomed to Failure and In This You Support Them FEAR For Your Children and Teach Them They are Worthless by Teaching Them how Fruitless and Pointless Are their Dreams…. FEAR For Your Children and Overpopulate This Planet with Twisted Little Robots Who’ll […]

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a Monarch/A monarch

(aButterfly Poem)* For Lucy Kim When Again, and thusthis Taleis at an Endagain/again…..To taste These Sweetfruitsin the WindAgain/Again……to sip these Nectars ofHibiscus/mistrust/this Lust/Wingsthat flutter/Shudder/How Sweet/Heartbeat’sLyric/Frenzied Party/Terror Seeds theseFruiting Bodies/Beg to Pardon/She’snot Suited/gorgeous martyr/Beg to Pardon/SunlitDewdrops Splashing Harder/Begto Pardon./…Whirling Petals in The Garden/…Shotlick…/Sweetstick…/nervous Beauties inthe ring/…..Beg to Pardon/Bursting FlowersIn The Garden/…Light like Angels/Life likeAngels make Me […]

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An Immaterial Witness for Illuminated Minds

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Lightspeed Into Endless Beauty

*For Mark-Alan PHASE ONE:/TRANSFORMATION In the Sick Clouds of Dark Denialwhich Seems to paint The World you see So Darklyinto the halting Inconsistent Reality you Perceive Uncertainly The World in tones of Death and Life toYou is nothing but a Means to Achieve such InsanityThat what you want for Others with Your HatredYou, yourself cannot […]