LOST PROPHETS IN GEOGRAPHICAL TAILSPINS

 

I raise my hand and cast fire

burning down transparent trees into stumps

cleansing the perimeter of lost prophets

random symbols clutched to their chests

lurching about eyes ozoning blue filled with

slogans of vacant rapture installed into them by

optical internet feeds  

 

a chorus of sirens floating above me in the sky

whispering faint songs of sadness

flashes of lightning shattering black clouds

outlining mathematical equations intended to solve my eyeballs whipsnapping back and forth

infinite queues of memories trying in vain to

shoot the conemaugh gap

wrenching my neck backwards into a space where

the pain of lost love oscillates creating

irritating black line vertical rolls on a 1950 television set underneath my skin

bursting through like mexican jalopena peppers on a hot South Texas grill

that seems to have lost it's way on Interstate 20

outside Abilene