alzheimer demon Sunday, 22 January 2006
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memory, mind, dignity
devoured by this demon …
alzheimer’s … who siphons souls,
a trail of empty shells strewn in its wake
who settles on faces it possesses
like a shadow crosses a wall of clear gleaming light
traces of wisdom, regret, and sometimes love
erased from creases time has pressed into
friable skin,
replaced with
fear … suspicion … hostility
or … worse …
replaced with nothingness
a sweet flowing spring
has run dry
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perceptual inferno Friday, 20 January 2006
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teeming
crystalline voices resonate
perceptual inferno
white noise in gray matter
my own psychic static
shrieking … skulking … shadows
i, hunter … i, hunted
caustic clatter digests my psyche
neuron by neuron
axon by axon
dendrite by dendrite
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birth in reverse Wednesday, 18 January 2006
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death …
a birth in reverse …
spiritual … breath-taking
watching …
waiting …
feeling death’s grip tighen
loved ones crumble in grief
… i …
caregiver
… emotionally unaffected …
by the loss of this soul …
ponder the enigma of death -
death … a mask
that settles upon the corpse …
devoid of animation … sallow hue
voices Tuesday, 17 January 2006
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hey broadcast using medium-length waves over the radio. they communicate with each other this way. yeah, they think i heaven’t figured them out. they must think that i don’t listen to the radio. oh shit, the voices. they’re singing Kumbaya again. hands over my ears, looking around the room, wild-eyed, for my headphones.
i can’t tell the difference between what my head says and what goes on around me. psycho, i’m fucking psycho again. my ears, they’re ringing with all the sounds of all those loud voices. running. shit. i gotta run. those people in the shadows, they’re trying to stabe me in the head.
‘ . . .drive a broom through your skull … rip out your entrails …” voices! no! those thoughts come from the voices. running. hands over ears. bent over. dodging them. running from them. slamming into walls. bouncing off the bright white walls. gnawing my fingers, exposing raw and putrid flesh and bone. raging. numbing. nothing.
panacea. syringe, loaded. who’s panacea? mine? not sure … i should run. but i have run enough. relief? demise?