our sidereal kleptomaniac friend
will die tonight
with a broken smile
for all the ones he couldn't
touch,
for all the forever he threw
away,
in his body will swim
these words:

sometimes this language
is real
like skin. like life,
we've all been seduced
away.

scattered

a clown sm
iles.sc
attered electrons,
a jar of moonshine
(with a skull inside.)
a mouth taped shut;
a CD. (erased)

spiders. keys (rusted &
use
less)

a fi
refly. bulle
ts. red lollipops.

h2o

on the body of
a da
isy ( for no reason)
in the mouth

of a sp
aceship crashed
in an elephant graveyard
disintegrating
instantly (&may
be the vo
ice

inside

e
scapes.)