Pool…
Vengeful sun relentless
knowing how it emanates
solar radiation cruelly deviant
knowing that each of us
radiates infinitely
pulse pulse
it’s a wave rave
gamma, x, radio and ultraviolet
piercing bloated brains
sizzling pig fat on the spit
like Sylvia I know that
“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.”
Eat of my body, drink my blood
splintered veins translucently cancerous
waves and waves
incessant
glandular blue like varicose veins
bulging, pulsing, shrieking
like someone who does not go gently
traversing a body
riddled with lightning strikes.
This body has tasted Chernobyl
shaken not stirred
balanced on edges of serrated flesh
like hitting Omaha beach
Herr Doktor’s troops in the hedges
with 88 mm guns
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
the Rhine Wein troops
are drunk on Gluhwein
like me drunk on Revlimid
though the beach I’m on is black
like Punaluʻu Beach, slate grey obsidian shards
slicing putrid raw jowls
slick with succulents
like that time I was nine
on the dirt bike as I hit the edge
of the ravine
and plummeted into air
Superman … Supernova
hanging ten on that rogue wave.
