Twitching swirling dancing unfurling

rods and circles, flagellate, propragate

Grey

raisin-ed, taut aridty where once was viscosity

Retina lake defied, denied of liquid

left putrid swampiness

Beige

Seething, heaving, glistening beige legs and pillow body

casings barren, microscopic teeth bearing

Larvae alive

Black

wrinkled, devoid of humanity, expression

just necrotic, erratic, never again erotic

(except for those few who'd deem him so)

Brown

Swirling water, lake-leg branching out

touching farms and raping banks

Muddy lips kissing trees as they blush

Green

Hillside quaking stands

wind-falling, crestfallen, Solemn

Cows grazing, bush-hog brazen, coaxing summer

the coquette that she is

Blue

Sky blankets the scenery

the solitary cemetary

the one-grave owning stream mausoleum

with Clouds as Coffin, Air as Eulogy

White

an under-the-table elixir

Dropout created, a drop-out's life fixer

Dead to all while high

Dead to all, forever and all

this night

01/12/2004

Author's Note: Ode to a guy that was murdered b.c he was about to surrender the names of drug dealers in my town.

Posted on 01/12/2004
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