06-13-2011, 02:51 AM
How do you describe dense black?
What fancy metaphors for pain could I devise
to make you feel what I've felt
on and off of late? Maggots crawling free
from hollow eye sockets, corpses bleached
to chicken bones beneath a brain dead moon...
etcetera. etcetera. I've spent so long
sodomising truth for art, my memories
my daffodils, bobbing their heads
beside the stream of my breath. I am a whore.
In the absence of inspiration I give you the void.
The perfect square. Entirely black. Bottomless.
Filled with nothing but the fact that what you see
is all you'll get. Falling. Falling.
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What fancy metaphors for pain could I devise
to make you feel what I've felt
on and off of late? Maggots crawling free
from hollow eye sockets, corpses bleached
to chicken bones beneath a brain dead moon...
etcetera. etcetera. I've spent so long
sodomising truth for art, my memories
my daffodils, bobbing their heads
beside the stream of my breath. I am a whore.
In the absence of inspiration I give you the void.
The perfect square. Entirely black. Bottomless.
Filled with nothing but the fact that what you see
is all you'll get. Falling. Falling.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe