NO MOUTH, I MUST SCREAM (REVISITED)
outside
light-bulb white
a happy motherfucker
paper plates
shiny penny love
inside
cortical toxins
genetic errors
the ghost of Kafka
inferno
outside
beige faces
a smooth appliance
clingwrap façade
dead animal value meal
inside
snapshot dynamite
edgy
optical mirage
outside
spike heel imprints
forgiving linoleum
toilet paper lipstick kiss
sing along time
inside
brittle iron
rusted violence
supernatural
disrepair
outside
metal and glass
mallwalkin’ huffer
potted plant sequences
nowhere to go
inside
a carnival of tension
brain fissure
misfiring neurons
sociopath
I have no mouth and I must
scream (again)
(published in the Detroit
Metro Times, August, 1993)