frying my mind ain't so bad (as far as i kin feel it)--

it's losing my teeth that truly frightens me.

it's listening to my father blindly spouting truisms.
so i may likely smoke prior to seeing him. this will also help me stomach any food stuffs he may suggest we devour.

i mind the people around me when they are not listening. when they are merely awaiting their turn to speak, counting their thoughts and the seconds and gripping tightly to their words with their tongues behind tight lips.

people and their influences. their influences bother me as well. why couldn't they float past the gate of possibilities. why must they insist on following the same tunnel without exploring the windows on their way. without investigating the source of light shining high or to their far left sides upon the aging roads they tread.

i'm unwinding blissfully, arrogantly, ignorantly. i hardly know what goes on around my own perimeter, where do i get the gall, the nerve, the inclination that i know better.

i only want to step upon a stage and bang my drum and sing with a proud tightness around my eyes and a wide mouth excreting the biggest words i can think of with abandon.

i want to live with abandon.

striking feature--

he comes across as a man with a problem
he lives freely and speaks with his heart
the innate is the reliable source of energy
from which his enormous powers of persuasion
become a granite rain drop
ten times its average size.

rippling terror steers the river towards inevitable peril

the voyagers pass in elegant robes with shrieking delight

at the form in which their shameless debauchery contains them

the dog tied to the tree scratches himself

and stares pitifully into the vacant house

with his bowl turned inside out

and collecting dust.

sizable trash guzzlers prowl the alleyways

for attention from the dirty, homeless cats

wrenching stomach pains pang across

his body towards the expression upon the face,

hot, bubbling fat from her body sizzling beneath him

still on fire.