methamphetamine

the moon
yellow
sulfur sweat; pore distilled
the final product of the amateur meth man
and his matches
it seems the straight road is twisted
shaking
this road is crisco
to less than gentle backwards intrusion
contusion
bleeding
***
corrosion
oxygen on barbed wire
not quite a crimson; the red
cut up tangled in it
a rural hillside field lost
to the machinations of a prolific
and expansive
positive charged urban sprawl
***
tetanus
sealed lips don’t speak to the cops
even though
sleepless eyes
trying to make sense out of a road that’s
never where you left it after you blink
tend to remember things
they should know
***
sex
and self-medication
I’m only not even certain
in the answer that seems to lie
somewhere
between
the forgotten barbs of rusted hillsides
and the feral cat’s fishbone city
***
hidden sickness
sneering sex
little boy hiding in a church
charity box
blown open irises
singing
father father father
where art thou
spike collar
leather robe
pulled up
catholic dominatrix
passing his discretion
like squatting on cold porcelain
some kind of tattered satisfaction
looking into those
young
drugged
pupil owned
eyes
like the toilet
a swirling place to deposit a little emptiness
***
seems to drip
the light of the moon;
down
like acetone eating through
plastic beakers
the way caustic memory
touches
only slightly
the surface of my patent reality
ripples that are quite reminiscent
of the still dry air inside
locked church charity box
***
sleep takes me like coffin dust
dreams screaming
childish want to leave the light on
though it only shows
attic in twilight bright
just enough to reflect off your teeth
and add a strange luminescent
green
will ‘o the wisp
sheen to your twisted pheromone
i know you’ll treat me like i like it

More comments:

• On Tuesday, August 14, 2007, Reefer_rave (185) wrote:
  
  This is so damn good... it explains the whole twacked out "tattered satisfaction"
  
  
• On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, avlar (26) wrote:
  
  wow. i have found THE poem
  
  
• On Monday, September 6, 2004, Solace (1272) wrote:
  
  I came back to this fish my man, i've neglected to comment on your works...But i've read them all...I'm spreadin the love now :P
  
  
• On Monday, May 24, 2004, aXe FactoR (395) wrote:
  
  very deep indeed. beautiful spun and written. i enjoyed reading this. :)
  
  
• On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, Jaded Jezzabelle (359) wrote:
  
  okay Im a tweaker...I mean how being high on meth FEELS to a fuckin T...ner...hehehe again good job...gotta go read more of your stuff!!!!!
  
  
• On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, Jaded Jezzabelle (359) wrote:
  
  for reasons Id rather not say the title to this caught my eye! This is so very REAL TO LIFE the ramblings of a "tweaker" for lack of a better word.I hate labels!anyway good job you displayed the way being high on meth to a fuckin T...ner
  
  
• On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, Jonas (820) wrote:
  
  i am very glad you took something out of my poem... i would like to point out though... i am not a methamphetamine user... nor have i ever been... 'cept for two weeks in my 17th year. *smiles*
  
  
• On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, Jonas (820) wrote:
  
  but this poem was not written around the time of those ...interesting... two weeks.
  
  
• On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, purr_verse (1320) wrote:
  
  just one of so many others saying that this really is a magnificent piece of work. purr
  
  
• On Monday, December 22, 2003, Bakkhus Unbound (1055) wrote:
  
  'it seems the straight road is twisted;catholic dominatrix;sleep takes me like coffin dust' ExCELLENT! I feel the dust like rusted blood lust in the screaming luminescent of this perfect poem; BRAVO!
  
  
• On Thursday, June 26, 2003, celestine_moon (51) wrote:
  
  "trying to make sense out of a road that’s never where you left it after you blink" love the images in this work. you have a masterful mind! -moon
  
  
• A former member wrote: Somehow, amongst all your frivolous bullshit; there be some quality- some matter to mention. But, what comes too soon is credit you’ve ruined, with ‘Crisco’ filler and ‘Backwards Intrusion.”
  
  
• On Thursday, May 29, 2003, Jonas (820) wrote:
  
  isn't art frivilous? and you don't much seem political... so...?
  
  
• On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, Stranger (297) wrote:
  
  You have a most unusual knack for making the strangest things beautiful and beautiful things strange.
  
  
• On Thursday, May 8, 2003, Aurora_Light (518) wrote:
  
  all i can say right now is wow
  
  
• On Saturday, April 26, 2003, Sharon Rose (625) wrote:
  
  woah...you really should have written for yourself all along...this is absolute beauty...too damn many comments...
  
  
• On Friday, April 25, 2003, Deliverence (688) wrote:
  
  Damn your one twisted dude fish. This is just the first poems of yours i read too..what else you got in that mind of yours to unleash upon us eh? -Kefka
  
  
• On Thursday, April 24, 2003, SageoPhoneus (142) wrote:
  
  This is twisted, sick, and vivid to say the least. My mind was racing trying to conjure images of these things. Fish you fucking rock!
  
  
• On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, King_Crazy_Dave (357) wrote:
  
  lets have sex .
  
  
• On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, MindRape (715) wrote:
  
  Well not that you need it but here's my two centes worth .... WOW! great write again Fish!