some old bullshit

something i wrote years back....

the crows were screaming
raving mad
i could taste their insanity

i awoke in a strange coffin
the lid was nailed shut with a filterless cigarette
still i smoked it

i awoke into a nightmare
a hologram of shrunken sanity
where the walls kept coming like waves

i shut my eyes at the start of the film
and while the opening credits rolled
i knew i wasn't in the cast

i shut my eyes during the required sex scene
strange moans came from the bedroom
i looked by didn't see my reflection

when the band whistled dixie
i didn't get up and dance
i just tied my shoes to a feather

when the band blared stars and stripes forever
i didn't stand and salute
i just shut my eyes and prayed for war

i drove to the cliff at a slow crawl
and observed those who had careened off the edge
their dreams lay beside them, twisted and broken

i drove to the cliff at breakneck speed
and swallowed a feather at the edge
hoping i'd clear the pile of ashen hopes

i climbed a ladder to the full moon
and bared my skinny buttocks
so the crowd could whistle and jeer

i climbed a ladder to the new moon
and buried my salty tears
hoping no one below would notice

i fell asleep upon a rotting log
gnomes came to dance on my chest
and buried me with their collection of pine needles

i fell asleep in a raped and broken forest
where bloody tears filtered into my dreams
showing me postcards from the garden of eden

i walked upon the milky way
trying to lose the echoes of civilization
like a trail of toilet paper stuck to my shoe

i walked across unknown galaxies
chewing on comets and planets
trying to forget that i ever knew anything

the crows were screaming
raving mad
oh how i could taste their sanity