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Questions of a Marriage

Yesterday, your wife, unhappily but

Contently married, is found dead,

Hanging.

 

Were you that bad?

 

Or had there been another life,

Stolen from you?

Do you want to find out, or stay put,

Contently unhappy?

 

Was she too; or had she found it?

What was she doing? Brown to you.

Were they or was they to her?

 

Did you like her well? Do you like her?

Did you know her well, or do you?

Hate… Dare you say it? Or

Dare you stare?

Was she right, in the end? Was you

Right to begin?

 

Or did you already know?

To stay still, then you already did.

To ask, and you will never. So,

Take a second; the answer

Is always the same.

Scratching an Itch

It's a taste, it's a touch, it's a smell

In the mouth.

The smell of old spice, your mosaic

Of grath.

A musk of a husband, the yeast of

his bed.

Crumbles of skin from scratchings

Of head.

Ivory nails and yellowing teeth,

He scratches and scratches the surface

Beneath.

Mountains of skin pile bodies high,

The ivory curtain grows thicker and wide.

Blood downs the earth, soaked soaker in

Iron,

And beneath Mother her hateful lion,

Tame as a hyena, domicile as the Sweeney,

The musk surround goes deeper beneath

Thee.

 

Then the ivory curtain crumbles like paper,

Pastry and skin is the trade of the Draper.

The wall can be plastered, but plaster

Is hollow.

The lion beneath crawls out of the

Burrow.

Tchaikovsky's Vendetta

 

Oh! Oh! Oh!...

What was it? It is gone.

A lunar eclipse endears in the sky,

The endearing traveller greets its

Wrinkles with a smile.

 

But in those wrinkles wrinkle my eye,

And so the music box is wound and

Wound and wound, again and again.

To his hand-me-down Marsh.The music is Tchaikovsky's vendetta"Remember my friends, beauty is chaos,

Chaos from beauty, but in the end,

It is still a Marsh".

What did he mean? It was taken from

The Vendetta never written-

Tchaikovsky's paux fas and ode

To damnation.

By now the flutes have ceased, and

I am guided by the timpani's steady

Rhythm hitting like a bobcat's tail.

Tchaikovsky's conclusion confuses the

astute of society's chosen.

Who would of thought that his Arc

de Triumph was what, 

a coda?

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