WRITE, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT?
Fearless shadows weave through
the transparent mirror’s
unlabyrinth of easy
glassless escape
mopping up every bit
of the neon epiphanies occurring
BUILT TO FEAR
A reverse luminescence. A flame
etched into the sky to remind
the crucified shoppers at the supermarket
that nothing is sacred. That hope
should be abandoned. That death
loves to live in negative paragraphs.
The blade might be dull
but it will get the job done.
IN MY HEAD
Dreams are made
twisting through
gray matter
and brain sand
of the spider’s cyst
next to the plentiful pineal
of my thinking machine unruffled by fluoride.
My intuition will rise
as my dreams will come True,
having escaped through lost hair
and continuous deep breathing.
FOR THE SAKE OF JOOST MEERLOO*
One insane source of "sanity" doused
with twelve years at the useful idiot factory,
poisoned by Pavlovian conditioning,
hammered into submission by authority,
rote teaching, society's poisonous mirrorism,
unliving their lives among the rusted shambles of shackles,
of the tainted orthodoxies existing in a realm outside
their ruinous rubbled and broken bubbled oblivion—
if one is not careful enough one just might end up a cop.
*Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo (1903 – 1976), Dutch psychoanalyst
BULLET WITH A NAME
How many alarm clocks will it take
to wake up the entire “woke” world?
A drifter finds a home. It feels strange to him.
I used purple wood to frame a picture
of Gia herself smiling
big bloomy blossoms.
I pasted a red parasol to my lamp
to give it more heart.
In the land of the blind,
the one-eyed man is dead.
Leaves have begun to adorn and drown the ground.
Don’t stomp or impose boundaries on the molten coating of your skull.
I sit here, the world unfolds and unfurls,
as I call your bluff!
Heath Brougher is the Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press. He received Taj Mahal Review’s 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He has published 12 books and, the latest of which is “Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy” (Sandy Press, 2024).
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