The Ministry of Archers

lean on your sufficience
string up your pittance
massacre your valuables
choke the remaining beasts
you've gained the will
to gather all the vigilant

pull back the bow, snap
the ministry of archers.

slaughtered
i've buried those slain on the hills
we've lost more than we've gained to doubt
best to prepare your feet
move out in droves
come make yourself invaluable


Most Terrible Archer

separate your chief anxieties
cut the cord, but you won't
excommunicate from our society
are you bold? you are not

oh no
the most terrible, terrible
archer

you among the league of militants
how little you have learned
tried and failed to be one of the innocents
little left of yourself

little left of myself
little right of yourself


Become As Murderers

minus blood i'm still not you
multiplied you are not so noble
irrational and crippled, too
how the life escapes from your veins

we've become as murderers

loss of mind or still too blind?
sucking your desire to be useful
I cannot pretend or try
watching as your blood bursts inside


A Hatchet, A Hatchet

butchered to be left in parts
disregard, labeled odd
brain preserved in testing jars, then forgot
typical condition
tape the arms
stitch the eyes shut
all for blood, all four walls, what to follow?

a hatchet, to the corners of your heart

drawn toward the cutlery
have to go, have to go
carve your shame by incision, precision
description, prescription
when to rest, when to unrest
where to find different sorts
other recourse?

a hatchet, to the corners of your heart

have begun
to become
to be used
i've mispoken
have no thoughts of my own
mimic those
I have worshipped

a hatchet, to the corners of your heart


Quite Quieter Than Spiders

in between
wools and weaves
knots and ties
unhinged eyes
constantly
panicky
he's hunting me

fa, la, la, la
quite quieter than spiders

either one
none will numb
what to use
to misuse?
walls to climb
fangs to hide
immobilize


Rickety Trickery

perpetually paralyzed
kept within unkept frames of mind
ignorant or technically blind?
I have to make you realize
I have to make you realize

trickery, oh

stretched upon a table device
your hands screw the clamps on the vice
random ends of pins on the spine
I have to make you realize
I have to make you realize


Can You Refrain

unable to socialize
sleep deprived
sloping countenance
raised to be a neurotic
compulsive
this or something else?

can you, can you, can you
can you refrain
no, no, no

seldom acts of character
age reduced
high view of yourself
create an elusive place
a future race
(my question) who treats imbalance?


Bears In Hibernation

one so weary of life
have you heard that there are names for this?
with no concept of time
much can happen to the incompetent

with an updated life
you still act as if you're in despair
grumbling mouth, bitter mind
what will happen if the beacon breaks in mid-air?

what is your condition?
like bears in hibernation


Octuplet Down

to what effect
do you think?
better to check
than to shrink
too late to try
you'd rather deny
time to behead
your professor, he's better off dead

octave down, oh, octave down

much to decide
when you're young
thought twenty five
meant you were done
who told you their philosophy?
don't change your mind
teachers' bankrupt from her head to her feet