5 good hrs w/steroids&oxy


in the land of headless
people with faces
on their chests—comatose

explorers thinking theirs
are best to lead the way
to futures traded for avocado

toast & art dispensed from
automats 	  mosquito killer
sprayed on babies

fog & fruit all full of maggots
lab-created mechanical maggots
cells regenerate in these maggots

* * *

2am & steroids stutter
bone&flesh & liftup serpent
ink&skin lie on the surface

below the redflow flowing chunky
sunken chunks bonebreaking tumors
swimming thick a bloody jelly

sunken belly now & tingling
numb in middle & legheavy
ribs like ridges like deep valleys

thighs like twigs like saltless pretzels
mouth as dry as foot on pavement
at the beach black parking lot

& all the dreams are now just wakeness
lying flat in dark awakened
til the oxy takes its taking