11/20/2021

Paradise City

Brilliant night after night, all-glowing
Paradise City where all stars are carefree, 
huddled in their chemical mixture of darkness and light,
sweetness and demon, the stubbornly instinctual
desire to survive. 

Is it time to carry the burden, the rose's fangs,
the poisonous butterflies, the ever-changing masks
that smile and grimace instinctually, to embrace
the decomposition on the shortened road

to demise?

Memorize the condition of heart and shallow,
trauma, euphoria, the dream-like feeling
that you can do anything when you can't.  The dynamic
of slash and tolerate-  the improvisation of chaos-

the insufferable danger of grave-
the kind you're buried in.






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