pro-life (but not pro-living) by gliitchlord, literature
pro-life (but not pro-living)
disjointed states of fuck you, pay me, praise jesus it's a baby—a slave to the old world order. fox news reporters crave heated debates just so they can play the trump card. see how they fellate old fellows! glory glory to the relished suffering of others—my god saved me, ergo you earned the fire. preach again how to sacrifice isaac; eyes back in your head rolling in the deep- seated hatred of your fellow man, woman, and child; seventy percent of the world reviled, spit on them even as hallelujahs echo from the pulpit. america the ulceric and pitiful; god the enabler of death, discrimination, and communion with ghosts. throw your warehouse full of stones at the innocent. city on a hill dismembering the living while orgasming in a grave: holy holy is the blatant disdain, hold that bible so close it's can't be opened or worse, explained. you know not what you do, or if you do, you're fucking insane.
become a forest (further trees) by gliitchlord, literature
become a forest (further trees)
coax my hand to hilt, stray rhythms build a wilderness of edges— primed. an amazon sine cursed to lilt; beyond the sunrise i'm embattled. brittle scabbard, gift of shrapnel. stain me, ever so dismantled. cut the canopy; the scattered flocks portend the lost miscanthus. cannot trust the plants that wind through wounds and grasp the failing standard: i'm disastrous.
chopsticks (piano banging) by gliitchlord, literature
chopsticks (piano banging)
fork tines in a forearm— force my smile and time the waves of pain. i'm more a sign than a gesture; unsure of my own name. you order in again, coughing and hitting the vape. vague comments on current events, so sweetly sang the hung jury. make a mouthing out of a mobile home. languor of post-pandemia set in like freezer burn—like stale kisses. you fidget and squirm and i press the prongs deeper. find out if you cry when i bleed, one way or another. copy mannerisms and sloppy seconds; dismissive of hovering clouds, toxic. talk with the ceiling, you keep your laptop shut-down. bath bomb drowns in its own promise, down the drain, howling for hours until you're satisfied; how sharpened that shift-eye is! artery spits out a shame-red excuse—i'm tired, i'm shit, i can't skip work again. if the moon fits, swallow it. i'll see you again.
what a mire is a lyre string snapped in the teeth of a lover; plucked feelings taut, discordant lips whispering, god left to the passage of time. no mystery, i'm strung up by short breaths, lost in rapt leather, tighter still. what a fire is silence when only clamor fulfills.
ichor in your kisses, covet sucking teeth relentless. limbs in disconnected plummet tie fresh ligaments. and if this is your paradise, your pile of corpses, somehow your dimension, keep it quiet. lips so murdered out for vengeance. mark the tarnished, torn, and tempt them into tar—you harmonize with screams, the slaughter sings supreme but no one listens. when you smile it's horrendous.
blood under your nails, i taste. thunder in the throat, i'm keeping time in stasis. statements of fact, you know and i lack. look out to apocalypse, dream with your eyes closed, coming on the wind. three fingers again, at least. lest we forgive, reach deeper than ever; i grin when the severance rasps across skin. you prince him so nimbly— ganymede gasps, flustered.
customary glances at the dying, you glow like a warbanner—in blood and bright horror. hide never, be brandished at the vanguard. you dawn on the weak, sun tearing through the de— composing. grace, such that heaven shudders and the blade gleams. sharp, wistful lunges over corpses; you float the tide of mangled.
crush me into glass, i'll glitter in your hands, embedded. lick the blood and cut your tongue to ribboned lies, pretty wounds with looming ties to ends. stab each other like friends, draw blades in errant scars, crash cars like lovers. we can't stand each other.
cuss me into knots, i'm flustered. buy you god- damned perennials, the petals lodge in my throat, then root. rust and ruin on the tongue of drunk leaves; let me feel your falter, you breeze. past and present company excluded, vine golden around limbs. sing, oracle of sense and disillusion. i can only hear the fucking sea.
bleeding into kisses (oral history) by gliitchlord, literature
bleeding into kisses (oral history)
mouth dammed with stars, you lover of breath, falling. neither renewal nor release— ash-fixed elation. impatient as twilight biting dawn's nape; blush tastes bitter with each constellated orgasm. unstable, you fucking pyroclasm. burn ever in the void, you dagger. lack all, and suffer ruin.
teenage primordial wasteland (lonely hope) by gliitchlord, literature
teenage primordial wasteland (lonely hope)
i.
kicking off the extra blanket,
i try to dissolve into a sea
of worlds-without-hearts.
i feel like a hearth
without wood, a symbol
of comfort left vacant
when the spark finally
consumed.
i twist the top sheet
around my shattered ankle,
wish it anchored me
to a crushing seafloor.
once, we were more
than a void.
ii.
fourteen felt a lot
simpler, sixteen near triumphant,
but eighteen stabs
through every interosseous possibility.
what does it even mean
to be me?
iii.
fold the extra blanket, set it
at the foot of the bed,
smooth it out, sit down
cross-legged on the floor.
look around, feel surrounded
by the past. how did i
become this
diff
show me your neck, i’ll show you how resentment is grown: slowly, darkening skies, crashed cars, and skinned bones. i won’t mean it, i’m known for nothing less than deception; validate at reception, get the app on your phone. new carpet bombing at home, radicalized internal design, infernal pries open your eyelids. alone. show me respect, i’ll throw you into a tenet that won’t be upheld, camcorder up on the shelf, pull tape out to hang death’s knell fast upon the mirror. it’s hell to rewrite giver as irrelevant shell. i pick slivers of breath out of my self, what good is a word if it’s held sideways like chin tilted, beckoning. tell me your name again, i fell asleep drunk on your nape.
perhaps love is meant to end. love opens one's eyes and mind to hope, validation, presence; meaning should exist before, during, after else one be lost in a sea of throwing-up-hands and mirrors smoked. tears are choked back often, smeared journal entries erode over time to be faint scars; we are libraries of guilt and apprehension stacked past icarus' wonder. once your fangs grow you're in the bite, only right to taste a throat or two before you file them away like wildflowers between pages of a book you will bury in dust. perhaps love is meant to remind us of kindness offered, of striving to be more, of how we know ourselves when we feel blessed, of coughing up beauty like stars aligned with expectations. and then, as a candle at dawn, let go.
lover there are too many truths
brimming in you, eager;
even when you inhale there are mercies
spilling over bright, split lips
like water from an eclipsed moon
or the side of a martyr,
you bloom with grace.
let me lie
deep in your garden,
brooding forever in lilac kiss.
showered in petal lace
ivy deep in the veins,
you grip each ending
nerves full aflame.
lately, i
sleep while you
wander.
i.
in the morning i
wretch, bed vomits me
out, feet sabotage and
catch, head orbiting
doubt.
i'm eager but
quickly repressed,
steps into the dew
soon find themselves
stretched, failure etched
devoutly into coralled
ankles. i recite the scars,
honest liturgy of daily
dread, what of me should i
forget and what should i
assault?
ii.
around the corner you
mention me, sparing
no detail. i failed you
in glaring verb omissions,
my loss glowing crisp
in every touch.
i am not much;
it is no secret to me.
i've watched it be prayed
with heaves, heard it
be cursed in eves, felt it
recoil. what worth has
the toil of an unwanted
burden?
iii.
in the sun
the order of the undulating by gliitchlord, literature
the order of the undulating
i.
it is the snap of a vein
devoting blood to the surface,
worshipping air as release
before quickly bowing in service
to harsher things;
i've felt the canines' impact,
it never fades.
i've yet to break my holy back
but i have strained.
there's a wrist that i'd never snap
but when the bark twists blades
i call it grace.
ii.
it is the snag of avenues
devoid of budding incursions.
your lip and hair are in breeze,
your wick is blowing, imperfect,
your stars estrange;
no telling how the skies react
to the rearrange.
you better mistake no action
for dismay.
don't wish for an epitaph
but when the dark invades
it'll call your name.
iii.
it isn't
ex tension (gliitchmix) by gliitchlord, literature
ex tension (gliitchmix)
rewrit, i
scrape my bones
in new scripts.
dizzied by
the depths
of my thighs,
i'm prone to stretch
out from quasar
to anomaly.
i depress
your facets. you sleep
sounder than ever.
click your cheek, lip,
scars, and former glories
all.
you sleep,
and my sound
is full of mnemonic waves.
they crash on me,
clawing at my hull
and calling me down,
bidding me
drown.
you are
asleep, love.
my wrists
cannot escape
your nuisance.
how sweet are
your echoes
in the tomb
of my chest.
hands together when i kneel by gliitchlord, literature
hands together when i kneel
i may not be much
but swear to christ i'll level you.
cut your teeth on me
and drink devil tongue
when we kiss.
unsettle your desperate itch
and lace your ligaments;
i will swallow you
within an inch
and own it.
i'll be bearing mary
up until the twist,
then rectify my wandering eye
with touch
of lips.
locked, you exist
to please me.
hey newton, gravity's flawed by gliitchlord, literature
hey newton, gravity's flawed
i.
starting anew from the flutter
and the sputter of lungs.
a vacant sea filled with feathers
and tumultuous clatter,
ribs in a treacherous pattern
resembling exiting rungs.
i want to wrestle the angels,
your tendency is the ladder.
ii.
involved with full indiscretion,
trading lazy for lace.
unspool the curse of the long-
itudinally inflected.
limbs in a languorous flexion
ultimately misplaced;
i like the stab of the ankles,
you need the curves intersected.
iii.
opting to cull my extents
with trans-dimensional vigor.
spent my dysphoric corrections
on reconnecting lax ends.
lips in a spurious accent
feign a passionate rigor.
i tie myself to
i.
i have a theory
that the size
of the universe
is measured in
negative numbers:
so small that it
looped over
became big again
thus we are all
collapsing
into ourselves
and each other
brilliant clusters
entwined with
the void
and our expanses
are startled
and crossed
when we touch
and the universe
isn't enough
every nebulae or
space where
a star was re-
placed with
something
that wasn't nothing
or a nothing
becoming something
ii.
lately the hole
in my chest
is growing,
so i will observe
the vacuum
and wait for
infinity recurring
a bleak space imploding
chemicals corroding
stark ribs contracting
volatile, reacting
is this a ref
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