High



Shouting into diamonds of fire,

        giving air to surviving microcosms

                    of a burning civilization

   already lost to the ice age

                                        of the new world

freezing our saliva and tears into a fossil of destruction.

     (I forgot I was talking about fire, diamond -

                                   thought the

                      so I sing of the latter,

but it is of fire I dream

                          and I am stoned in Spanish right now

       I want to fuck

                             I’m hungry

for anything, even heartache

                                          Or a burn

            And I can’t stop thinking

                               How much I could teach you

and love you like she never could.

                       You’re blinded by the one light in your life.

         I thought I loved him too,

Until one day I saw him walking

                               Down the street with a

                           scone

    and I let him walk out of my life.

I am too high right now to learn about the séptima lección

     But I am scared of my teacher,

                     She’s like a Catholic preacher

And right now I could kiss your belly and your ears

                          And lick away all of your fears

       And I’m cheating myself out of

                                        Life as I take answers

Lain out for me in my books by the initial homosapiens

        Who have turned into homosexuals instead

                       The dream is dead,

But shall be revived by those with rights deprived,

                                               And oppressed.

She will stand before a nation undressed

                     And flaunt her flawed beauty

 

-Lizy Snowden


10 February 2004


Substance abused: Marijuana