I was your favorite leper son. I even bandaged my wounds. Licked them sparkling clean for the benefit parades. Now I labor through the night to expunge your DNA. I want your coat of arms to rust into disgrace. I want your sadist's memoir to furl like a worm in the rain.
I buried in the mire all the shame that you imparted Still shrapnel's spreading in my mind You're the crushing overseer who left his peasant in the sun body baking on the wheel my pain, your meal
The bluebirds, monarchs are soaring free into the clutch of the whitest priests while the deacons cook and clean, readminister disease Behold another scapegoat raped by an apprentice of decimation the spoils of your Con-quest, the fledgling in your path I flinched when I was cornered, amidst the plaque, mercury laughs.
I listened to your cryptic promise. “You'll be broken too. You'll be broke in two.” and sang the copacetic blues complicit quiet, complicit quiet You're the amalgam of an aeon another lip-smacking lackey: glazed mannequin malaise cold Saturn's thirst extinguished summer of my life but now you can recline, unburdened and drugged
I spent my life watching my back, boxing lineal shadows. Now you're thunder without lightning, a broken-toothed oracle, twisting my perception. You are just a figment of your own imagination ravaging all that is beautiful. You set the terms of my imprisonment: “Here's your lifetime poisoned mind.” Bequeath the family heirloom, a bouquet of rusted steel. Now it's mine to unravel it to melt the remainder down to cross the river at twilight to leave my shell in the shallows to crawl exposed on the river bank and grow new flesh