David Mclean
|  | blood in a bucket
time is blood in a bucket nobody minds,
and it is the timeless finitude of
eroded eternity,
like scraps of paper on a pavement
where holocausts have happened,
uneventful yet like heaven.
time runs out of me like light
so i am empty, the scratching stylus
that inscribes my crippling history in
me,
so i am a palimpsest defacing children
i was already, forever.
no death lives forever in a bucket of
blood,
where nerves and hormones and
subservient
sinews punish nothing through
indecision,
and deface the fatuous statuary of life
with night
and abortion, insecticide and torture,
since heaven was invented for men who
are dead
already, forever – death will not
make them better,
but the flesh and skin shall fall from
me dreamless
like rats deserting a sinking ship
whenever forgetfulness of “i” is -
bones, a brief stench, all this
| | vagitus
words' worth is this quavering
vagitus, whereby we inscribe
a child's unknowing, a cry,
the empty authority
of nothing here, these emptinesses
inside our night
notoriously able-bodied murderers
like every saint, every sinner,
provokingly invoking sanity, and the
sound
is the lustful blood of the brutal
etymon,
resounding silent like our timely void
that means this abrupt nothing, copious
semiosis filling greedy gullets
with meaning's seed, time's logical
sodomy inside us, suckers,
just lust and, thus,
a quavering vagitus of these vagrant
babies “we” is, just dead bodies
in the dust, empty
life, empty love,
just us and nothingness
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