Proud to be published in 580Split’s Issue about the breaches in our current political climate.
From my next manuscript titled Universal Monsters, please enjoy I Am Waiting For A Terrible Sentence To Begin:
I am waiting for a terrible sentence to begin
I am waiting for permission
I am waiting for the world to empty
his war chest of ammunition
I am waiting for him to be shoved
naked onto the streets
tonguing a solitary gold tooth for Quixotic-reassurance
I am waiting for bars to fill with traders
speculating on his future
I am waiting for forest and field to reject him
for canopy and tallest corn to consent to the drones
I am waiting for no respite from silent superveillance
I am waiting for ladders to actualize and stilt-walk away
to loiter across alley-mouths like wooden gangs
all leg and tooth and grin
I am waiting for rash to rise from the brand on his buttock
waiting for a shingles belt to lick his haunch like Sticky-Fingered-Hot-Lip
I am waiting for witches
to ascend from stony riverbeds casting reparation spells
I am waiting for the lesson to dawn
to bubble up in passers-by and flood
through social mediums like body-snatcher plagues
I am waiting for this anger to form something more than outrage
I am waiving my consent