The shadow stands silent
in the sprawling distance.
He is the prophet of idle hands,
the conductor of self destruction.
He is the shadow of Control.
The unyielding silhouette
of greed soaked Executives.
The shadow on the bring needs no
cloth of mystery.
He is my own capacity for horror,
my drowning days of sloth,
and my forgetful unknowing inability
to learn.

DEFEND
TAKE AIM
at the prophet.

The Vernacular of Vestibules

is a mixture of silence
and neutered jazz.

Outside exposed to the much talked about weather
I sell empty space
“$5 please”
I inhale fumes and fresh air
“Hello sir”
Some people don’t say a word.
Others exhale Seneca Nation cigarette smoke,
chew big bites of wet meat,
see through me
beyond me
accuse me
suspect me.
“Let me get the door for your ma’am”
My degradation illuminates their elevated status
more perfect than bleach
whiter than teeth.
“Thank you so much”
I stare at clouds
close my eyes
control my breath
expanding into
empty space.

I see a photograph of
a bright dancer
in mid step.
Nice to note the
rare beauty of human form.
Then I catch the glare
off the glasses of a girl
looking on and notice
the audience and their
average faces.
The photograph
becomes sadness.

Nostalgia & Missing You

You arose
out of the blue and
withdrew into
the black
rhythmic wheel of a
passing bus.

I feel something like
nostalgia and missing you.

You who paid dearly for
every burning minute
of all those late nights.

And once you're gone
you can never
be lost again.

HIRO-SAKI

Some poor shadow's lips are sure to have muttered an "I told you so" before a belated and epically awful FLASH turned solid matter into poison vapor.

The skeptic remains depressedly optimistic while waiting for the horrible twist to reveal itself and it always reveals itself to the anxiously patient.

I
know
why
your
struggle
never
ends
cause there's a man
who rides his castle
cross the gray
littered sky.

For you, Mr. Nothing

Mason jar spirit
maintain leash length.
Hearts under home arrest
subject verb agreement.
Realization re-run
static on the edges.
Toothy tribal grin aimed at the aboriginal camera.