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Soured Passages

December 3, 2015 Gonzo Today Poetry 0

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By Lori Primavera

Train-HD-Wallpaper

1. Soured Passages
Today that train was not welcome visitor
The whistle was a harsh bitter blow to my sensitive ears
-not the magical sound it used to be
That train carrying images of sunny new places, other lives and future smiles
that sound wooing me with possibility
-with excitement of possibly being witness to such simple things as “new to me” grasses
new sights,wonder and unfamiliarities
new heights and views as varied and wild as my mind could concoct
Not today… not that train
That train represents every hope of adventure leaving me behind
every chance to be free passing me on
passing beside me
The blare and pulse of that train in sync with my throbbing temples
tension and rebellious mind splitting brain ache
growing closer and louder
growing smug and sarcastic
loudly and louder
hands to ears and huddled in a fragile ball until
finally fading and quieting
far awaying itself from me
Yes! Leave me. Leave me. Leave me and forever leave me
I don’t need reminders of that script I wrote
-have written for many a day
that movie I starred in and directed
that one about the garden and the world in harmony and the daily glimpse of full sun with a twist of lime and quinine
Yes! Leave me. Leave me . Leave me.
Leave me to take a wide step back into silence and then close my
somnolent eyes and forget again that there were ever dreams and remain again in this stagnate state
Leave me . You are not welcome here
2.
DOCTORHUNTERTHOMPSON
Daedal man a Kentucky seed
Outrageous! – gasped from who knows who
Crowing you send the message to the flock- our heads tilt to the sky
Terrifying before my eyes seeing into yours
Offensive a fist- but what a fist
Rebellious a freedom some won’t swallow
Halo – the one you chucked down the red carpet
Unglazed in natural juices flowing
Neophyte I and eating you as whole as you are
Tapping the wires to eavesdrop on your trip
Eggtooth carved from passionate rebirth
Released me and a sigh of relief
Tempered the water for us little tadpoles to survive
Heart heart breaking heart crushing heart opening madman
Openmouthed wonder
Marsupial you share your blood supply flowing flowing through us all
Poignant and inspiring wild images of overlooked ant hills
Sardonic smile and twinkling aches
Overlarge furies in your clouds
Narcotizing our America
3.

Can I Kiss Your Face?

Hiding my love away
Like a rat with stolen goods I scurry off into dark corners and exhaling in shadows never speak of it – my love
never free from fear here in the alligator leather belt of God and the righteous who claim to know his wishes and by using hate freely as is a gift from the almighty itself drinking on Sundays in his private cave of man and while watching local sports
AND I
And I am crawling the grass like a frightened beast in combat showering my eyes with drops of deceit and spraying my clothes with scents of never was to cleanse any beautiful lingering trace of being with you- my love
Oh mountainous lands and seas are a travel so far to be where I can be free to feel the peace that you give me in my times of unmindful despair in times of spinning boredom in times of I’m in the moment excitement and a wonderful thing has happened congratulations and savior turns the water in to wine and the earth into my love – my love
– mountainous passions also coexist with mountainous freedoms
SO I
I – in my own practice of civil disobedience
hold you dear and close
but yet hide you and lock you up from from the seething flapping roosters
patrolling my back yard
Patrolling Peace Cocks
Ah
but with you in the trench with me- my love
we can laugh and jolly at their displays

L.P.

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