Addicted to the Blue

Pray his hands are clipped and lay broken
and he’ll stay in the dark and remain still unspoken
and not kiss her cool out in the car
and light up the air both near and far,
like that blue glow set loose in the summer night
amidst the music of the leaves—
but still he ejaculates on the evening’s breeze
to the snap of that lit blue zapper.

But now the warm wind begins to blow
so the stirred leaves this new gust does throw
outside the fan in his bedroom’s heat—
So now he’s panting at his computer’s seat
before that screen’s blue glow flows his sweat
and settles on this druggie’s breaths
in deeds for escapism is the lust of this teen,
with his artificial light trusting like day.

And he’s been dreaming of his martyrdom
while the moths outside so young and dumb
run blind into their own blue light
just to die on a lust’s final flight—
their thighs dipped in an untrustworthy treasure,
that ultimate druggie pleasure,
still living the nights so sexed and fed
and doubtful the teen is the living dead!

But buzzing by his own blue light this night
the Critic as down in his self-righteous might
may smite him but not insist:
"to each his own blue can’t resist!"
Yet nothing will stop him from getting his fill
in knowing that his own cravings kill,
but he’d rather point fingers and criticize
the moths, this teen, and all that tries!


--Poems from the Sprawl

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