Wise-Ass-Dom

"A man will never be as in love with you as he is with himself."
"If you do find a man who loves you more than himself - run - it's a trap."

-- Alice Carots :)

The Truth

Another night of willful silence
Losses adding up
Except for the music, there is little to recommend me;
Slights imagined or real,
Sadism in the form of a blank page.
Inner conquest complete -
Obliterate me again.

Lately

Sitting still
nowhere near water
I am drowning.
Behind this mask
which holds my face impossibly still.
A porcelain figurine.
(Such suspension is a cultivated work of art.)
But cracks are forming beneath -
Minor splinters and wells
where the salty water runs
red at times,
poisonous at others.
A tribute to the artist
That the mask from without
Does not betray the lake of daily dying
Which flows beneath.