the stars are never upside down

  six dead flies and a razor blade
  just sitting there
  on a windowsill a little
  but not too dusty

  cum spilling thru an old man's teeth
  bright and real as bathroom tiles

  a drag queen with a hardon
  smeared makeup and cigarettes

  the way your mouth tasted after another night
  that's hard to remember now
  an apartment,a video,bodies
  electric with alcohol and white fire
  complete submission
  to a moment of smashing flesh
  excitement
  and despair so deep it's gone
  the way his balls looked
  from down there

  it takes a while for the news to sink in
  how to heal and feel
  whole
  without cutting off your hands

  all day today
  people waking up in motel rooms
  each with their own
  pleasure and pain
  brought forward
  thru the filter of night
  far from trees and birdsong
  the light we all see
  thru hope and headache
  the empty sky painted
  again and again in the same two colors
  don't look
  don't look away 

  god to live
  like that
  like this
  filthy with plastic desire  reflected 
   and go on trying
  rising above ourselves
  so confused inside the calm
  clearly lost,but still here

  the part of your heart
  no one can hold

  my love moves to
waiter this tureen is filled with flies
WALTER
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