the axiom

ax·i·om n.
1. A self-evident or universally recognized truth; a maxim: “It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services” (Albert Jay Nock). 2. An established rule, principle, or law. 3. A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

ooh i like this one-

cupid’s call

cupid gulps down a bottle of beer; idle fat man
dead to the world and drowned
in bitter fermentation.

she pleads ‘hello’ from a nothingness that
demands
shape and form; 2 eyes;
mouth; nose; long hair that
cascades with the elegance of falling water,
bitter with reality-

familiar, sweet stranger who waits like
a prophecy, shaping a promise with her lips
that no prophet will deliver; fat man

waiting, like a wizened fetus for a delivery that
courts the scorn of light- and a slap on the buttocks.
juvenile hopes, driven like a bus by an old lady
to nowhere in particular,
a predilection for a passenger that stops more than a double- decker.

my heart ticks like a clock, staggering
under influence.
pass the bottle-

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