Lazy Poets

choosing. temporary abdomens. the feathers. scribble in her eyes. hungry tears. eager authors. spoil her signature. empty tires. the manic machinery of skin. clumsily switching gears.

the distance is quiet. bashful whispers embrace the monsters. swell the dead. in their futile rebellion.

yellow ghosts and orange graves. a eulogy of fists. bruise her many faces. pistons and cadavers. wager the beast. in the breath of mountains. and the patience of liars.

the steps betray her. Inches miss by years. truth blame each other. spoiled soldiers doomed by choices.