Free write/speed light/jag and jibe andsteel bright. Cold fish/dirt dish/splash and flash anddeath wish. God sends/no end/rings and things andgood friends. Dead flies/nice try/squash such washingwhite lies. Bum rap/bull crap/don’t take/can’t shakedeath trap. White gold/thus told/streets that heat/I’mso cold. 16 OCTOBER 1991I’M NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK #8Finnegan

*FOR TIMMY LADD Lovely sandswept sundrenched BeachReflects in your Steel Eyes…palm Trees are Nice…(slick Black Tears, thick Black tears)Clouds are nice…(rusted Sex, rusty Lust)Sea-Gulls are nice…(Monotone tunes of tin can whales)Skies are Nice…(Insufficient Data)waves are Nice…(Twisted Steel Hearts)Lookinglooking glassLooking Glass Eyeslook at melook at me blue OCTOBER 1988I’m Not afraid of the Dark #14Finnegan

We aremoving quicklythrough Dark Tunnelshot and sticky.No realexplanationfor this causeof CelebrationLight leaksdown my fingers……Think You’ve gotYourself a Winner?Steel stabsup the glass skyStarved, Impoverishedmouth the word “why?”HatesilksLovelaceWhere did you get that gleaming Steelface?HatesilksLovelaceWhere did you get that gleaming Steelface?White lipsblow a Scorched Kiss,Block your faceand feel the Flames hiss.We aremoving quicklythrough Bright Tunnelscold and dripping.Fights ofCelebration·Dance […]

FOR MY ETERNAL PIERSISTERS /ANTHONY LABEIJA/LUNA/TRACI MASTERS/BLUE/MARIA DIAZ/DONNA/CHRISSY PENDAVIS/ANDY HASKINS/ANGEL/JACKIE/JESSE/PANTHER/THE LEGENDARY MISS BIANCA/AND MY #1 LOVECUP RICO FOURTEENTH STREETRED LIPS LICKINGPAST PARKED TRUCKSSHADOWS STICKINGTO YOUR BODYWHILE YOUR TRICKING WALK THE STROLLWATCH FOR ALICETHINK TO BREAK LAWSFEEL COOL MALICE HIDE YOUR FACEIN THE DARKNESSWHILST “JOHN’S’ LIMO SIDES THE WET CURBYOU WANT HEATHE KNOWS STARKNESSPULLS YOU TO […]

(a Poem for the Necromedium) Gray Ladystiff and coldYours is the Light of My EyesThat Dark Tunnel movingWindswept, towards the Backof my mind, Where I remember Beatings, Such echoedWhips, such Stinging Lashes, Such Throbbing Violencein My Templesall contracting at the tipsof my fingers, where I rub them.He put Youin the Dark Moist Earth,Gray Lady,And I […]

(a poem for the Necromedium) Gleaming blade,splashed Scarlet Drops to makea joyful noise unto the Dark Lord ofSuffering, a Gray Lady Downis a wonamn of SubstanceA woman of much fleshtone, as the paintingneeds a bit more Red…The Silver Noise is the whisper of dustto Her. Grave Gray Lady, and She sits in herChair and rocks […]

I just wantedyou to knowwhyALL the Fliesseem to be so Attracted to Me/Maggot/ I am The Lord of The Flies and Youare But one of the ManyNastyNippingCreatures of Darkness.from Hell/I have just seemed to Spawn fromMy Cold Black Womb/which just happens to doubleas My Anus/ Sometime from Now/When Your Clear Irridescent Wings Bloom/and You learn […]

For Alexander Tinti and John Castaneda (J.C.) This is an Ode to the Sickness of Bodies ….Between the Blade of BoneAnd Teeth and GumMy tongue meatsqueezed white with pressuresplits at the tipand Bleeds hesitant Traces of HIVContaminatedI am a-Diseased Beastand Dyingand shriveling away to a Shrieking TerrorI Scream Bloody Fucking Murder!and You Murdered MeYou Stupid […]

*for Carleen Passenant and Toni Halliday SHE WEAVES THE WEB,A RETENTION OF FIBERS/SELECTED DESIRES FROM HER STRIPPED AWAY WIRES/EMERGING,CHROME PLASMA/THESE POOLS OF MIASMASWIRL A MONITOR’S BLIZZARDOF BLINDING WHITE NOISEAS SHE SMILES AT THE SCISSORS/SHE CAN’T STAND THEMSHE CAN’T STAND MENSHE CAN’T STAND THEMSHE CAN’T STAND MEN/SHE SPITS AT THEM/SHE SEVERS THEIR THREADS/THIS GOESTO HER HEAD/SHE […]

*FOR LAURIE ANDERSON AND KEVIN ROSS BALL GO INCUBATE INDELICATE LANGUAGEANO COMMUNICATEDOOM •••••…. A BADLY SCRIPTED SCENARIO WHERETHE ONES YOU LOVE MUST BE SACRIFICED CRUELLYTO THE INSECT GODOF LIESABOUT NOTHING WE EVER WANTEDBUT EVERYTHING WE DENIEDTHAT WE LOVED EACH OTHER BYTHE STARLIT FIELDS OF A COUNTRYSIDETHE TALKING HEADS ON TV DECLARESO MUCH HEALTHIER WITHOUT THE […]

INSIDE SHATTERINGGLASS WORLDSI AM REFLECTING •••••••••••• //WANNA BE A BLACKMAN/WHITELAND/CLONE ••••••••••••• IWANNA BE A BLACKMAN/ WHITELAND/DRONE •••••••••••••INSIDEWE ARE ALL THE SAMESHATTERED MESS OF DREAMS/INSIDEWE ARE ALL. THE SAME/WE ARE ALL IN THE SAMESAD AND SORRY SCENES/WE ARE SHARING THE SAME SICK DREAM/WEARE ALL THE SAME PRIMAL SCREAM·I N S I D E••••••••••••/You CANNOT STEALWHAT You […]