Brevity

October bought colorless contacts
unto eyes hypnotized by travesty,
tripping into tip-toed silences
and mindless droning
of bees.

No mental escape
just the unwinding tape
of a mind
uneased.

Please to purchase
plates dripping in turpentine and plastic
caustic, classic remedy
plead and purchase
enmity.

When all you see is falsehood and
fault lines,
rhymes and rhythms fall short
to retort and remember,
serve only to dismember
the empty agony
lining stomach
with the tick and tinge
of unhinged
sickness.

Where illness beats screams
into deadened waters,
bolted into wayward, side-splitting walls,
madness born
grief.