

Light Neon iridescenceLight by ~Ascetic-Rose
fracturing the cyclic universe
Halogen sunlight
withering living flesh
LED gods
bending the natural order
Nuclear ideals
flattening the mind


The City I walk alone through dusty streetsThe City by ~Ascetic-Rose
Back alleys of my forgotten future
the twisting routes of now and then
the sky opens itself to my thoughts
and the rain falls, crying it's sorrow
Passing empy shops and dark windows
I see my life reflected back at me
shadowed images of what could have been
The rain speaks of the truth forgotten
and soaks through my clothes burning
abandoned cars that I can't start
broken like the lost dreams undying
missed opportunities where the paint fades
The sheen on puddles rippling endlessly
while the rain pelts them like stones
Coming home and opening the door
four walls between past and future
Inside by ~Ascetic-Rose

HIT ME RUNNING Don't sell me funeral plotsHIT ME RUNNING by ~foxthepoet
on late night television
if the end is already in sight
am I supposed to pull the sheets up to my neck,
count to zero,
smile, and cease?
no
keep your pills, in all their pretty colors:
celebrex, propecia, allegra, lipitor, zanex, viagra
keep them for scrabble
keep your rogaine, your facelifts
keep your death insurance
keep your graveyard reservations
hit me running.
let me go down swinging
make it a sport:
give me a ten-minute head start
and an obstacle course.
place a beautiful girl on the far side of a mine field
and whisper, "she wants to kiss you"
target me on my feet
dodg
In october by ~raun