Transparent Words - Poetry

Ashes to Ashes

 

By Bill Ransom

i

after proposition

.......quick decision

..............a collage

of love binge guarded,

.......she unpinned the corsage

....“needle’s thin

go talk to god,”

......so the monk departed

.........to identify his

.............true vocation

damned by her

...........loose occupation

ii.

...........refreshed he confessed

........the tryst was a risk

.....took a test did his best

though he positively pissed;

.........felt sick and cold

as she impersonally

..........reminded him

........part of her wicked soul

....yet remained behind

.......with him in the mud

.........occult bad blood

...resulted in a flood

of sudden silver sympathy

..........while he filtered

................other’s empathy

..........into a puddle

of nasty graphic suds

 

 

iii.

another day spent in life-crisis,

......he prayed to allah,

.............jesus christ, and isis

called to thor, raphael, dionysus,

horace, baal, ares, osiris

........but his chorus failed

............to ease the virus;

............he kneeled to sealed fate

....genuflected to hate

............waited then wrote

................complicated anecdotes,

.............notes, psalms, and hints

.........on his palms and parchments

.................he printed his defense

.........on vellum and papyrus

...............dispelled his conscience

...........because it inspired this

..................prominent descent

iv..

.on medication,

his desperation lied

....to quickly

.......make his point

....before he died;

..sickly avoided: .....quarrels,

.........cues, churches, pews,

refused to employ morals

......while he screwed the world;

..............deployed his toys

.........in spy’s disguise to

......a new girl brave

..............and well-behaved

......nice for his final rise,

...........took her to the grave

...........but he couldn’t

..................look in her eyes

 

 

v.

...........“in an array of dna

...............d.t.a. the poison plague

........we all will

...............surely drown,

fading in obscene waves

........as we pass miscast parades

......................of protein found around—

..............the shade aids

..........what’s left for death as

...................we all fall down