Hydrocodone stars
lean like street signs in night's alley,
with black-hole eyes shut.
Kid-in-a-bottle
journeys through clouds of ether;
paints his skull with rainbows.
Pink epiphany,
inside a rat's toy prison:
"Exits don't exist."
Swiss-cheese brain readout:
food, blue, sex, pain, words, love, hate--
cocooned in neurons.
Nothing beautiful,
just death's-head butterfly wings;
Jupiter screams out.
Fuzzy-sweater kiss
nails him to cosmic crosses,
raspberry eye-blood.
Skeleton highlights
jingling beneath raw-tip meat,
Samurai pelvis.
Green-gas cemetery
where stones drink the moon's rivers
like fountains of youth.