blastedgoat

This is kind of a re-post because I made a video for one of my poems. I think it may have changed from the original so here you be:

Tall Tale
I scale a wall ten feet tall and curiously
fall to the forest floor. Tree roots grab ankles,
heels feel warm with moss growing between toes.
Leaping from log to stone in search of flowers
I absentmindedly wander into an overgrown graveyard.
Here heroes died and were laid to rest; now wild-birds
sing mourning songs and them build monuments:
make-shift nests in the chests of ancient trees
with rotting cavities for mouths and sickly
splintered fingers that grasp at grey clouds.
Fingernails scratch orange leaves
that cling to running legs.
I smell the growling breath of a stranger
I dare not raise alarm
a figure stands glued to a corner
his black eyes on me…

I was sent to Earth to cover the 2008 American Presidential Election by the great one of my home planet. I was to depart with a male version of my species and infiltrate the political processes of a Midwestern state. On Earth, mates live with each other beyond the necessity for child rearing. This was a strange concept to us but my partner and I vigorously studied the disposition of lower-middle class American couples. I thought them a bit frumpy and crude at first glance but they really are an interesting subject. Humanoids attend Universities where they exchange imaginary creatures called “Loans” for valuable recreational activities. Humanoids that attend University are known as “Students” and they are a nasty bunch. Data collected over the span of several months by my partner and I conclude that Students are low on the hierarchical chain of human command. They eat indigestible worms with seasoned foil packet, they consume large amounts of Miller Lite, a most horrid beverage which causes them to behave in most peculiar ways. The young females dress in a way to provoke the young males. To any reasonable being vomit and loss of motor skills seems at best unattractive. Young Students perform these rituals in order to mate with another unattractive being of their kind. Alcohol is used so males may later deny attempting to impregnate the females, especially if the female is unattractive or bloated. Alcohol is a magical elixir that raises the Student’s exceptionally low level of self-esteem by making them think that others actually accept them. A Student can live in denial for several years before they finally come to terms with their occupation. They are sold into slavery by Banking and Loan Industries that require them to work a job in the food-service industry despite having earned their four year degrees in meaningless trades. They buy things they don’t need to fill the emptiness and finally have children, which finally destroys them forever. As I have said these young subjects were very fascinating and I am pleased to file this report. I hope it will serve as a historical account for future generations after the Humanoid Students take over planet Earth, which ultimately destroys it…

… do as the man says for heaven sakes…

Lovers

A wedding ring slinks through the pipes of a crumbling claw-footed bathtub.

I see you looking back at me in the mirror.

Widows

A wedding ring slinks through the pipes of a crumbling claw-footed bathtub.

I see you looking back at me in the mirror.

Windows

A wedding ring slinks through the pipes of a crumbling claw-footed bathtub.

I see you looking back at me in the mirror.