The joyless parson wallows in his inadequate shrine: a slanted, yellow dungeon a face zambonied into submission, disfigured by rapid snow and penetrating sunlight with tender, gray eyes, an uninhabited moon, harassed by flurries of wind which whirl and flash their gums, reveal their genie biceps to proclaim victory over a senseless, vacant enemy.
The head which hangs below his form, is a mouth stuffed full of frisbees, rendered mute. The contaminated air which enters his nostrils, escapes through the stem of his neck, so his cells are breathless, sustained unwillingly by a contemptuous life-giver who remains forever unwanted.
In the light of twisted stars, he walks on conjoined arms, to the auction of souls where devotees in the regalia of mites, circulate their treason to new generations perform the pantomime, branding initiates with energetic impressions engravings of sorrow, the fresh man's shadow: the mark of the butchers guild absorbing essence into the pillars of a marshland palace, forever unanimated.
In denial of their black-box scrying, he plunges into visions of calm pastures where porches are caressed by growing, limitless grass, which flirt with, then shatter gaugeless heating meters He tumbles headlong into the jagged shadows of tropical trees, to fluidly tremble in the sand, discover deep, unending sleep and fantastic lies well worth repeating.
It is all one, sustained, resonant scream, masked in gestures of condemning kindness The seeds he's nurtured behave as boastful adulterers, waterless gullies which cackle during night's inhalation The centered brahman with a heart of madness, his ecstasy earned, but undelivered lingering in the heavy, hypnotic moonlight, a bewildered fragment of substance a frail, diseased swan, deprived of grace, which saunters through traumatized flowers whose pedals endure the drizzling of napalm and the smoke which billows from the furnace of futility.
A cloth clutched across his face, repulsed by obscene horrors dressed in blandness and neutrality the brush of a coarse drape against an open wound, which will seal itself in wilted skin and plummet into a mine of violent isolation, where the oracles are swallowed, broken teeth and shivering organs harmed by the frankness of rage jarred and transformed into rigid, immovable stone.
The sage brush in the pit of his throat, guards against the output of hope and he maniacally dances in a river of depraved, life-denying conclusions whose tributaries spread deprivation and the mangled shadows of his flailing, barbarous limbs flickers of weak, damp electricity in a condemned building whose tenant brandishes bouquets of unnatural deadness and rests in slabs of seconds
Cross-eyed from dementia, veins either frigidly inactive or pulsating uncontrollably, he quivers in each complicated moment as spiders graze upon his shoulder, extract his blood in the truth of daylight and he yields to annihilation's crawl
On clear nights he dissipates into thousands of salmon-colored specs and plasters his body to a remote stone wall, to hear the faint sounds of a pipe organ which with each pressed pedal, resuscitates his tired lungs with vibrant air crumbling the prisons of cacophonous thought, pausing the clamor of exhausted shoes flooding his garden of embitterment
But when the sensation has diminished, he feels unworthy of pleasure a dragon whose heart has bursted from guarding alone a cache of treasure which no one values and no one visits.
"The ram, by nature, is a wild and courageous animal, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tamed and made to lie down in green pastures, nothing is left but the docile, cowardly, gregarious and succulent beast."