Inescapable.
We are all dying. One. Day. At. A. Time. Remember that. You’re welcome. I’m miserable. And I like to share…
Category: Death
Without a Rope.
Have another cold slice of heart disease, Dad. Only make sure to smother it in enough butter to see teeth. Partially hydrogenated milk fat laid like mortar on starchy carb bricks. Cement for suffering arteries: Failing blood tunnels on the verve of collapse, Holding tsunami’s tide at bay with a broom. You tiny, weak-willed, […]
The Many-Faced God and the Sisyphean.
Christmas Day I’ll eat mangled offal. The disembowelled harp strings of a once effulgent heart, thrumming with noble intent. Now but a shoddy dishevelled instrument to be played upon by my dinner guest. Any verve long since beaten into submission, withered and died, in the face of insurmountable odds. Unfeeling. Unhearing. My soundtrack: not Bing […]
Not Today.
And so, God of Chaos with insane notions of balance or fairness, you come to claim my Father now? Death, you’ve taken too much from me already. Now you steal upon me, not with battalions but a single spy. I caught you – shivering across his grey face, hewn from rock seemingly more than skin. […]
Blackwater Ink 