Blunderstone

Famous Crab

Mad Scientist Miku

The god
dozes in his sentry cell
Some elaborate contraption 
Secures my wheels
A bluff
Undone by a latch in back

Houdini my way through and find my ride
You flag me down and hop inside 
Without invitation
Were you looking for me this whole time?

Nothing ever happens here
Until it happens
All at once
Caught up in the rush

Fine copy of a figurine 
Encased behind the glass
Museum-dated 800 AD
As sold to those born yesterday
Bought into by the masses

Into the dark vault watch from a distance
Catholic prayers and stares from children
Priest frocked white, a marble man
Someone clutches its feet 
and makes anguished demands
Then suddenly, retracts his hands
Off like a shot, out the archway
Back under the sky of the Yucatán 
Back on the road  
A tire-tracked mannequin
Driven over
again and again
How apropos

In the Rush

it's all just a pale imitation
the colors are drawn out
everything moves all around me 
the edges are fraying now

something's happening 
I feel it
the sirens are getting loud
maybe if I light a candle
it will bring serenity now

my shaking hands strike a match head
which breaks and lands lit on the carpet
time to sacrifice the soles 
of my feet

to keep the fire from consuming
all the things scattered around me
not to mention   
the place where I write and sleep

Don't go disturbing the universe 
It's bad for you
there's other ways 
to call back
the blush of youth

finally some peace and quiet
the wick is burning down
this is my life in the city
if I were far off in the country
the silence would be twice as loud

Disturbing The Universe

Ellipsister
Lend me a hand
My mind is reeling
I can’t stand

To be continued 

Tied to a chair
Elevated arms
My sisters  do me so much harm

You’re so high
You’re so high
What it amounts to
To be continued

Ellipsister

I missed a step
And came tumbling down
I fell

Whoops

When you pull a knife
From way up high
It looks like nothing
Just a rattling of bones

And from this sanctuary 
I can see 
  where your skeletons are buried

Vines grow in the underpass
Spreading outward
 like spidery 
cracks of glass
Oh it’s like a disease in that 
it could happen to me
Cannot smooth it over
Just let it cease

Edges of your words glance off me
Shielded in this house of glass
If I had
A stone to throw
I’d let it clatter
I’d hold it fast

Vines grow in the underpass
Spreading outward
 like spidery 
cracks of glass
Oh it’s like a disease in that 
it could happen to me
Cannot smooth it over
Just let it
Seize the day
Crease the future
Don accoutrements 
From your demonic
 tutor
You couldn’t 
Comprehend
Another you without end
Ladies 
and gentlemen :
The weekend !

Crease The Future

Let me help you down.

who  
you think
you are

Don't be dissauded
By everything unmade
It's not complicated
Now that our best plans are laid

At  the masquerade 
Pinballing round
Another butterfly
Pinned down

Here 
let me 
help you out
I've been inspired
By your 
ivory tower

Trapped in its spire
As the fire burns 
And the world turns 

Round its polestar

It's you I admire
 Let me help you 
down

Specimen Case

An artist
Anarchist
You can’t get enough
Of a thing you don’t need
You can’t get enough

Temporary forever
Temporary for now  
Infinite chorus girls
It’ll leave you blinded by indifference 

Temporary for now  
Temporary forever

Let gravity work
Though I'm addicted to intention
I can't say no
To an ice cold
intervention

A relentless fixation 
on axe of uncreation
Temporary forever
Temporary for now

Temp For Now

The echo
Is louder than the voice
unintelligible
when you cut through all the noise
it's never so simple

 The amber
runs deeper
than the vein 
in which it came
We cauterize the jewel of tombs
 by kissing it with flames

the troubles
run deeper
than books dare to proclaim
a closer look 
inside your blood unearths 
  centuries of blame

Centuries Of Blame

“Hold me 
for a long time” would be 
reasonable
Potentially 
even
“Hold tight
for three point five
 hours”

“Never let me go”,
though…
Leaves a chasm
Between
Yearning 
And 
What’s grantable 

Everyday
 routine knowledge
Absorbed, 
   assimilated
with nonchalance 
Never at the forefront
Burning a hole in the back 
Of your...

The current’s too strong
Inescapable
Inheritance
Will take it all away
Except 
The one thing left
the one  

Never let me go

Never Let Me Go

All my excess lives in Texas
Left it there beyond the nexus
Of all this friendly fire
By my slight of hand

Movements
uninformed yet dextrous
shrugging off times of the present
To find a faraway seat
To wait and watch for history to repeat

Enough of this preface
these lessons vex me
Go on 
hit me right in the solar plexus
You think I'd be jealous
Of the air  that's left these lungs?
I'd  only gasp and bite my tongue
I'd  only gasp and bite my tongue

It's not enough
to say what if
What if I said
That it's foolish to forgive
You think it'd only 
burn you up inside
but the anger serves to steel you
and gives meaning to your life

Place your body on the line
And they'll have to remove you
And your being's intertwined
With all the ones who made
themselves an obstacle 
and showed us all
what's really possible
they showed us what was possible 

We've counted many
of the ones that got away
claiming
something about "live to fight another day"
Eventually 
they show up at the door
hat in hand
or demanding you give more
more

Bite My Tongue

You should!

You should be careful
You should be kind
You should be honest
You should give back
You should be healthy
You should be understanding 
You should take care of yourself
You should plan ahead
You should keep learning
You should keep growing
You should think critically
You should avoid debts
Don't punch down
You should earn a living
You shouldn’t take undue risks
You should prioritize family
You should create 
you shouldn't destroy 
You should spend your time wisely 
You should record 14 songs in 28 days

differently
constructed 
beliefs
over
your head
over 
complicated

Should 2

Hey
Where did you go
Everybody’s asking
But you never showed
Always nowhere to be found

Hey
Come on behave
No more moral licensing
To act depraved
Though admittedly
We liked to watch you go

Always knew you’d take the long way home
Where we’d find you we couldn’t predict
But I got a feeling
Always made me  sick
With worry

Always here
Waiting for you
Always here and we never knew
Never knew you at all
exhibition and all

Exhibition & All

Your heart swings on a tether ball pole
Internal team vs the outside world
Wedged in the earth
Beside you I’m an organ pipe
I sound a single note 
Yeah I’m just your type

We’re both stuck here in the ground
And as your rope swings round and around
I resonate
It’s my foregone fate

To shake long after the match is won
The wind rises as we reach for the sun
Long after the day is done 

Stay close to me
While everything's 
Orbiting
Stay
standing tall
Forces
Centrifugal   
pull   
you'll never fall

I always feel when you
Self-oscillate
Your heart is tied 
But it’s out of its cage
Mine is somewhere 
locked away

Sometimes people, they need support
Wrote about it in my book report
And if Love is a contact sport
Then I’ll see you in court

Some organs are riskier to donate
Quell the vibration but I won’t play it safe
Entangle me 
on the tetherball court

Tether

when you distill it down
to a chemical bath and crown
a fabricating pool in shantytown
full of potential 
in which to drown
well say it
well go ahead
well say it
just go ahead

different continua
living in a suburb of Antarctica
get it down 
just get it down

 year after year
day after day
always said we would find a way
no we didn't 
we decided that later
but it's fun to say
that maybe 
we would have tried to change some things
had we the chance
and now this is our way
one leg at a time
like how we put on our pants
if we had the time
in our busy day
to get dressed

Alan Onymous

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