flashing neon signs:
DRIVE-UP EUTHANASIA
CREDIT CARD ONLY
OPEN 24 HOURS
past-life recall:
centipede exoskeletons
trace dark lines
of rigor mortis
those
creeping parasitic assassins
dig a grave in my heart
while I play solitaire
dead/alive
the bank keeps calling
screen blinks
I retouch my makeup:
disintegration
strange vaporous violets
with glitching fingers
whisper
with chopsticks
they share things
like morphine,
ketamine
and mass extermination
these violent beings
peel hardened propylene
off their servants’ backs
luminous devils rise above the fire
they look like death tastes
strangling restless languages
feeding appetites
of the unholy
tentacles from your mouth
spoken delirium, spoken in vain...
from your lips where other dead things
await your breath
Nick Swarth, Dirt Drawing #82: Self-Portrait with Covid 19 and Contact Mine, drawing on found paper.
