the human eye barely catches
the vision obscured by the moral sunglasses
which somehow surpasses the shinning blunders shielded;
the melting pot has melted and everyone is everywhere; separate but fair?
pistols sovereign; dirty hands, sanguine eyes dressed in suit and ties
skyscrapers do just that, scrape the sky
felicity finds not; its blind
sour citrus clementines peel
like the human form
the sweetest fruit brings the worst kind of flies
the predators predating one’s passions preface the predominate;
its life, a gauntlet; thrown gloves and duels,
sacrilegious scarecrows with gang tats and cornrows
lines these streets
its on sale!
the pavement pounds like heart beats
for once we’re alive - partially
look like, be like, see like; its shark week
and everyone is chum, yum
trends treadmill, we’re running but we stand still
smoke our cigarettes, play our games
we’re tamed, maimed, enflamed - ash 

I want it all
but want for nothing
seeking that something
that one thing
that tells you
no compels you
forward toward
tomorrow land
some vast expanse
where your nothing really means something
especially when you come from nothing
so we scribble lies
and work on our bluffing
we stuff stuff next to our stuff
and pop pills whenever were stuck
waiting
for the director to yell cut
I do!
do you?
tradition transitions
deliverance divine
how cryptic the lipstick
we paint on the swine
a sadistic holistic
with bottles of wine
 screaming
“what medicine heals all?!”
when talking of time
white pickets and thickets
and musical crickets
a song serene
and neighbors who seem
just a bit lower than angels
at least when your skin matches the fence
watch as you hollow as you follow the current events
time! time!  who knows where it went?
church matters now
give meat up for lent!
yes mortgage! 30 years worth of rent
clickity clack an email is sent
these docile words never mean what they meant
enter cubicles
earn as you look at your cuticles
make babies
get fired 
you’re hired
I’m tired
I’m sorry sir your license expired  
every 3000 miles
rotate your tires
Disney land
playing in sand
do you what you can
while holding my hand
letting go
I watched as they ran
towards and away each other
being chased by nothing
running towards something
perhaps that’s the one thing
running towards that something
being chased by nothing 
or is that suffering? 

~C.B.M

meaningless
in a way
flowers
have two paths
grow
til wilt
or
be uprooted
at the apex of beaut
frozen in the navel of youth
simple
what choice?
beauty
growth
death.

~C.B.M

 

eyes sliding
as if the gaze is writing
cursive on the wall
they drop
my hands hang glide 
into my pockets 
they stop
in time to feel
a roll of thunder
from under
my chest
yes
I couldn’t feel it
any less
yet
regret
pen quills
my pain pills
I strive to douse the flame
this pain
is ingrained
steps
straight
like a pirates plank
the streets
a library concrete
annex the searches 
pawn shops 
and churches
lurch on the gun store 
perches upon
purchase 
the circus
crowds avowed
fears aloud
when milk is used
to pay for the cow
are we not proud
everything is thrown in
but the towel
we let this sentence
run on
vowel after vowel
this alphabet
spells neglect
except
in a dreamer’s lair
this pendulum swears
the tire swings dangle
hope’s worn
like bangles
in pairs
life and death
rectangles and squares
apples and oranges
awake and aware
no bridge
nor stair
your equal
my fare  

there’s a museum in you
color ambiguously art 
beauty chiseled in rock 
your eyes crawl
right into mine
cold but with purpose
a shiver shudders
up and down my spine
its slender fingers
playing my vertebrae like a xylophone 
time slows and hollows out
everything seems to echo unto itself 
I stand contested
I gulp the air
like it is the potion; 
the cure to what I’ve become 

who builds these things?
fences high 
long
eyes cotton
sourness yet eludes me
crippled by sweetened consuming
emotional illiterates
playing happy and sad
because of this
its puzzling 
we collect our days
but waste our years
we peel
kanesian emotions
the more we have
the less we feel
iron chariots
race
then crash
pretending that they’re steel
books willingly burn
fires pop and conceal
words shake
micro explosions
meta
nitroglycerin 
et cetera
what beauty in lies
tongues dance and sway 
pirouette
verbal ballet 
don’t listen
but watch what they say
windy are these lands
conquered
dissected
neglected
fear its citizens
they are the innards
the guts
we are all lonely
but never solemn enough
some are happy
but if then
so what? 

~C.B.M

I love the chaos of it all
the anxiety
anonymity
the non-confidence of it all
is it coincidence that serendipity is sister to serene
calamity to calm
how its all so charismatically pristine
how prismatic an acumen
chaos is to us all
how do we learn to stand
if we never feel a fall
how do we learn to listen
if we never seek the call
for meaning is nothing but a question left absolved
some men think it wise
to seek meaning when we stand
if at all
wiser is it still
to scour the ground when we fall

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~C.B.M

I often dream of sapphire skies
where the tiresome bolts of indiscretion
no longer threaten to zap the people from their bodies
a jolt that blisters and bubbles up
painfully
but is so easy to hide
just cover it with forget me nots 
and garnish it with lies
and if that blister is ever discovered
just gasp and act surprised
I often dream of sapphire skies
so frozen
so demure
I often dream of sapphire skies
so cold
so impure

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
~C.B.M

the crush
the crush of shaved ice combing the under hairs of my existence
the slush
the slush of a sky made bleak from expectations
seeking meaning while looking up
is the fools gold
comets are made of
the shooting stars
are soothing bars
with which we encase
ourselves
are we keeping them out?
or us in?
do we break if we bend?
the crush
the slush
its all
just mush
just good
enough

-=-=-=-=-=-=-
~C.B.M

life is free flowing

like a river

the more you try and hold it

drink it

the more it slips through your fingers

dribbles from your mouth

the trick is to let the current corral you

and merely marvel at where you end up
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
~C.B.M