double suicide

double suicide
it dribbles onto the newspaper and
you are a parable that I can erase in
falling these beads of bright ochre

hard boiled

hard boiled
so you have no recollection of reloading
and throttling flint in naked fireworks of
your two-fisted poetics splintering crates

pegleg

pegleg
brake for phantom pangs I fill it up
with new pots and pans they are asking
you sir please stop the shouting

teleprompter

teleprompter
a braille of iron descending into
the mouth haunted angry raze
this involuntary iron brain

deadpan

deadpan
abandoning demand I listen to ACDC
and burn with luck to tidy in those
superficial spaces and duck the bouquet

bedroom eyes

bedroom eyes
where are the redemptive details i
bezel violently fingernails wreak
the headboard’s bloody bloody