Cockroach Blossom

The hate-sick worm

eats powdered glass

A spiral writhing

seething mass

Come in closer, come and see
Come on over, near to me

Teeth with eyes

and tongues that sting

Dancing goats

with demons swing

Torches spin

a painful ring

Blindness strikes

and jackals sing

Come with me farther, deeper dive

My mind it longs to feel alive

Ride with me fiercer, within me thrive

My mind it burns, an angry hive!

On seas of restless

roaches sail

As sickened songbirds

screech and wail

The skies are raining

hammer hail

With all flesh smitten

as the nail

Come break the prison, burn and brawl

Claw and crumble every wall

With twisted trembling cringe and crawl

Tonight the tame will weep and fall!

Boil the meat

of those that tire

Burn the weak

with frenzy-fire

Snarl and choke

and light the pyre

Let your fleshy

feast flame higher!

Weave and wail a wicked tale

Make no sense, grow crazed and pale

At all around you spit and rail

Retch, be foul and naked, flail!

So come on farther into me

Let your fiercest self be free

Come on close, don't dare to flee

I am the curséd face you see!

[1993]