"Untitled Sonnet"
By Brent Bowman. Adapted By Hair Knight
Appears on Bridges & Snakes
Messianic nightmares overflow
And altruistic pity always fails.
In the garden, shit-faced traitors of the plow
I awake to find my hands pierced by nails.
Bestial virgins masturbate in bed
Waiting for a Christ who will never come.
(But listen to this!)
Statutory statuettes entrapped hapless men,
Sexual slaves who think they won't succumb.
Cockroach coffee, sipping slugs for tea
And licking shoe soles to make it through the day.
Then, at night, a moon the color of stale pee
And at the end, death is life's coup de grace.
Awakening in sweat and insanity and the prophet says,
"Fuck Rationality."
© 1992 Just A Song
