Swollen Alibi

Swollen Alibi

A Poem by Perdition

Like blue

Like ice cubed memories

Melting

Sheer fuse-lit rapture, abandoned

Feeling quantum

Feeling physics

Dry mouth

Staring up on a lavender flame

Maybe just a day without screaming

Here, in parallel-ology

Same 

Same classification

Same desperation

Turned in and then

Turned upside out again

Amps bleeding from the previous night

Vinyl melting

Then endless broke-up mornings

Rain

Coffee ringed delusions

Emptying my teeth through a motel drain

This time tuning in

This time to acknowledge it

How we beat the world down for diamonds

Trying to tame you for what is dead

Sell the moon’s insentient smile

Branded as a floating branch

On a trillion mark of trees

Born not of men nor by and by

But perhaps through critical matter

Or those hands in your swollen alibi

© 2023 Perdition


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Poetically creative

Fascinating read. Glad I stopped by.

With love,

Matthew

Posted 5 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

Not enough love seems to be going around these days that is for sure so appreciated and back to you .. read more
That is incredible, still pondering it all, but I l8ved it

Posted 5 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

Oh…didn’t see this. Apologies but Thank you and yes some acid trips pan out more creatively than.. read more
D. Mansfield

5 Months Ago

When I tripped on acid, I never had pen and paper, and I'm pretty sure the world is a better place f.. read more
Perdition

5 Months Ago

They would have both been monsters in the night.. lol. I tried once but wrote a novel instead and co.. read more
Great writing here. It's very well crafted from beginning to end.

Posted 5 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

Well, thank you for your kind words and for stopping by and reading my Picasso cubist run off of wha.. read more
Ok this is indeed one of those poems that each reader has to read, fel and interpret. For me I saw Keith Richards on a bender while on tour with the Stones!

Posted 5 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

Well, that's just the way we roll Mate ..cough..cough..gotta keep the Mick in Minstrel-ville if ya k.. read more
good morn Perdition,
this one makes me giggle,
a downward hill, to why not man?
:D :P ----Maynard

Posted 6 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

Absolutely why not...then you just make sure all the birds are perched safely away and the fires are.. read more
1809 Black Plague December

5 Months Ago

you are most welcome, Dearest, :D
An attractive good poem. Loved it

Posted 6 Months Ago


Perdition

5 Months Ago

I seem to be missing all the reviews for some reason as of late...? Well, nothing to do but move onw.. read more
coffee delusions ... seeing as i haven't made it as far as the kitchen yet this morning ... this mad man's romp (poem or review i leave to you to decide) through the parallel-ology might read a bit disjointed. Only one eye ball fully functionary at this moment, and ears still a bit stoppered. joint's swollen, though not so much i can't function enough to recogonize a grand poem when it spills across my lap.

ken

Posted 6 Months Ago


Perdition

6 Months Ago

Nothing quite so grand as those early coffee delusions Ken... as far as I can tell all of your revie.. read more
Wow, this is superbly crafted. I loved all of your intensely rich and vivid visuals!! Great writing; well done!

Posted 6 Years Ago


Perdition

6 Years Ago

Oh come on, give me the real of it ;) So just kidding..always grateful for the visits and input so T.. read more
Staring up on a lavender flame
Maybe just a day without screaming
Here, in parallel-ology

Love the part about the lavender flame,
This is quite a profound read,
intriguing as well. nicely written


Posted 6 Years Ago


Perdition

6 Years Ago

Glad ya like and thanks again. I see ya let the owl go ...they do tend to be happier that way,...lol.. read more
lessa (kenzie)

6 Years Ago

oh but I miss that owl, owl's are wise creatures.
Perdition

6 Years Ago

ha ha ha...If you only knew and yes they most certainly are wise indeed. He'll be back.

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Added on February 19, 2018
Last Updated on September 12, 2023

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