Comedy & Tragedy

I received a wealth of comic vision

& ordered a case of smooth derision

Opening my eyes, I was prepared to go

Up on the stage & on with the show

With my bleached brain covered with snow

Ghost voices sing a children's song

(children sing a jump rope song)

Comedy

Tragedy

Life & Death

He fell from grace

Into a morbid curiosity

Bondage

Discipline

Let's raise a glass

To this new monstrosity

A psychophant

Wrastling in three dollar bills

w/. a 250 pound woman

Hear the snake tail shake.

(a baby rattles his toy)

A snuff film plays on a small projection screen

as a zombie comedian tells tales to the laughing dead

(a baby giggles)

These words read like acid

Tired eyes

as the worms crawl on by

Sentences rain down

& come alive

We are not content

We will never be happy

until the final edit

She laid the book down & yawned

thinking of a past lover

it was time to rest her head &

escape into a midnight dream

Who among you have seen

the rise of the dawn?

Turn the page from day &

into the dark slumber of the night

Come together now

my frightened children

See the peg legged man

dancing in the spotlight

Dancing like the savages

in an orgiastic frenzy

as a captured naked virgin cries

soon to become a cannibalistic delight

They've come to take me away

They've come to tear this circus down

Soon it would all be over... done

A fat lady was heard practicing her swan song