Innured

This invidious loneliness
hath lain fallow. It was almost
that she wouldn't want him to trail
her in his ill-fitting boots. Only to lose
him again, to the emollient
of ten minute phonecalls; the
sweet smatterings over
invisible cables.

Once the weekend was over.

He'd have his rifle for
company. While she would cry
over the photographs
of long-lost time; and think
not the fortuity of
his shiny casket, when
saturday comes again.


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 12:30 am

  Negative
i am

a prick.
a tick.
a droplet.
a tick.
a smear.

a tick.
a thought.
a butterfly.
a tick.
the wait.

a tick.
a(nother) thought.
a future.
a tick.
a heart sinks.

a tick.
a dread.
a possibility
a(nother) thought.
a bleakness.

a tick.
a.
a mind wanders.
a boy paces.
a tick.

a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.

a voice calls.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a test of faith.



cuRRent...jer  ¶ 11:03 pm

  subtle

the years sit lightly on subtlety. yet,
these subtitles remain- throttling
air with a concealed grin. and they
to veil their knives in toilet rolls- so
that when they cut, slice, incise-

it rushes beyond the lower part
of our screens-
our lines of visions-

in clumsy chunks of white;
leaving me to wonder; why
we need you: mister subtitles.


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 10:16 pm

  You

will become the pawn of politicians;
are the cutlass of their diplomacy.

will become a servant of utility;
will find- no emancipation.

will become a pariah of peace;
will war in irenic irony.

will lose all reason of subversion;
are worn down by attrition.

will become, no more. because,

will have god in your hands/ (yet)
have no scripture by your side.

will have no will o’er your temple/
have no religion to bridle your finger.

will find your heart of darkness/ (while)
have to suffer the brickbats of your officers-

will have to live up to. or else,

give them power, to cause
excruciating pain.

give them un-reason, to maltreat
and your neighbours.

would have broken the oath
were forced to swear.

cannot help but finally realise:

are in the universe of another palm;
have no choice/ have no soul;

have only the camouflage of existence -

have become a soldier.


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 7:38 am

  alphabet

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jadvjskfjkjidjiv hewvnjdsjavnjasnvoij bjkn mcacqnafiehfiewruiasnknzknkdsa aslvdpweoiew

im terrorizing my poetry-now
that i have the alphabet
in place.


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 9:59 am