straining and yearning in longing for love
you're fleeting and feeling like... its just not enough.
the lollipops grazing me, biting my skin
the butterflies trembling and dying within.
and shivering, shaking you're tripping and jerking

the gas prices rising, news of screaming
the apocalypse is coming... but nobody's listening.
she's screeching and yelling and crying and praying
but the hope may be dying
am i lying to you?

the helplessness of fleeting moments when i'm fainting
cringing at the stinging of the whip
words u're flinging
don't let this happen to you
stick to your heart like glue,
dont let it go. dont let it show.

carrie wants to know "do women just want to be rescued?"
its always me here. any rescue... any desperate attempt
comes from me.
a/c buzzing, i'm cussing... fussing over the details.
Primary imperfections bubbling in my DNA,
Curses of Eve, Lilith, Venus of Willendorf, Mary Magdalen
Carmen, my grandmother, Juliet, Medea, Miranda...
such dubious joy... and prickling glee.

picking cherries off bushes
filling bushels
bursting with juice, coming loose.
the tentacles curling in the murky depths
twisting around the coral, grasping it, holding on.
a net closing around the dolfin as he's flailing
to get free.

the illusion of free will tested
as the hero is bested
and bested
and bested.
and the princess sitting on top of the tree
sending down paper airplanes.

delusion. denial. deception. declaration. division. destruction.
dementia. discourse. delay. don't question.
pay attention to the lesson.
take a part and take apart your question.
slowly steadily silently trapped.
snapped, into the place
between
reality and dream.

assuming the monument was ever
ever
ever
ever there. you swear?
they lied and they told me
i worshiped at the altar
chained myself to a wall
to honor the masterful allpowerful
was it really truth? was it ever truth?

you taste the noose
silly gooose
can't come loose
can't come
can't
won't wait
stop.

begin. release the temptation from Pandora's box
pluck the sweetness from the honeybee.
squeeze the juice from a mango... let the sugar trickle.