David Mac-

Silent Engine Finger

The silence after the noise

The good silence

The fat silence

The silence you can’t kill

Listen

Hear it?

Of course you can’t

But you can

Silence in the earth

From the earth

Deep down silence

All of it

Everywhere

The silence behind the light

Through the eyes

Underneath everything

Nothing but!

Repose

Inhalation

Finger pointed upwards

  –   

The sky bends

 –

The bones groan

 – 

The ghost coughs

 – 

The painting never moved at all

 –

The silence between us now

We are but cracks in a desert

  

On the Town after a Hit

The snakeskin sky

hissing.

Somewhere in the town

a fat girl gets fucked.

I slither on by.

Black oil in my mind

a heart of venom.

My dirty bones

ooze

my ghost tenses.

I wish to fall apart

to separate

but you won’t let me.

The moon wriggles

like a maggot on a hook.

The stars are pointed, they’ll

have your eye out, son

and there’s no such thing as

freedom if you look

close enough. So

wrap your arms

around me

and just go crazy.

And Love Flows Like Mud

She lay there

All that meat

All that flesh

He shuts the door

Lets his skin fall to the floor

He comes to the hot bed

His dick a mad wolf

Screaming and angry

Spiking her

She throbs and writhes

A pink fish speared

Her black eyes ooze

His tongue flicks

Wriggles into her mouth

A violent worm

They twist and jerk

Wild patterns

But her beauty dances

He juts

Splits

Shoots off into darkness

Bodies collapse

Break apart

And after

They smoke cigarettes

Strangers again

No words

Will his cunt remember?

Will her cock forget?