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The Web Poetry Corner - Daniel Bradbury - Lips And Lungs, Recollapse
Lips And Lungs, Recollapse
by
Daniel Bradbury
The brace of life long contradictions
sag with the weight of pleasure.
I dream the eyes of all
and in all I am the eye of the dream
I rage, ecstatic, into some kind of blue void
And rail, unabashed, against a red brick wall
Trip and fall
Trick you all to believe my connections
I am not what you percieve, and chose to believe
I am many more degrees toward the 360
Much fuller
Closer to a circle than you believed
Braced by my imagination
Traced across the face of ages
My lips and lungs recollapse
And I hold as truth what speaks of truth
Because truth cannot define
or uncover itself, truth does not exist without a mouthpiece,
So, the mouthpiece itself is pure truth
And my lips wrap around this strange thought
and speak it to my ears, from my lungs
And my eyes just kind of bobble uselessly
searching for beauty in truth
and truth in beauty
But only temptations are found
(A beauty in themselves)
So I give in to absolute pleasure
And lips and lungs recollapse
Hips and tongues reattatch in abstract measures
To tempt fate to cut loose the Sword of Damacles
Swinging over my head
like a viscious plumb bob
To stick my head the banquet table
and apple on a skewer
Each drop of blood proclaiming the contents of a pornographically explicit dream of naked physical beauty
That I've had at some point in my days
A thread
A thread
Is all that stands between me and collapse
Damacles is giggling somewhere,
as each fantasy and pleasurable vision adds an ounce to the weight of the sword
Adds a pound to my already strained braces
It's iminent
Lips and Lungs, Recollapse
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