They Lured Me to the Hearse with Candy

They Lured Me to the Hearse with Candy

 

 

Immersed in gooey liquid

Mud, blood and a melted

Assortment of Halloween

Candy - Kit Kat, Twix, Carmilk

Skittles

 

The smell of shiit and the

Very minimal smell of something

Not as vile

 

*

 

I saw a ship capsize in the Nile

It was well over its weight limitation,

It was trying to resettle a Carnival

 

Picture this: thirty clowns

Twenty acrobats, two elephants

A firewalker, a sword swallower,

All furiously smiling as water

Made their lungs heavy

 

The Ferris wheel turned out to

Be not much of a waterwheel,

It kept spinning and it didn’t

Power anything

 

*

 

The girl at the front of the class

Questions the professor at every chance

But never really proves a damn thing

 

The girl in my cellphone, pixelated

And alone, sometimes speaks - her eyes

Sometimes blink - that blue notification light

 

On silent she cannot sing

 

*

 

Hooded sweatermen sloppily drive their

Abduction vans on Church Street

 

They park at Riffs,

            Their shady meet-and-greet

 

Thirty-three and a third percent off of everything,

Including the kiddies

 

*

 

Some kids, maybe eighteen, maybe sixteen

Maybe something younger

 

Smoke weed in the backseat of some

Diick-head hockey jock’s jeep

 

That probably belongs to his mother

 

And they weren’t expecting

Anything

 

Other

 

*

 

Death personified still does not die

It does not dismiss, it persists,

Disperses

 

Like a vampire, collars and cloaked

Otters on stilts, two different shades

Of Dark eloped

 

And created a gradient of night

Pegs in the Stars and a hooked

Net to farm the light

 

It’s bright at the top of the funnel

And it gets darker the closer it gets to us

 

*

 

Man, how our bodies just shrink

 

You came to me in a dream

Robed with a Kill-Em-All tee

A knife in your stomach and

Hall of your torso turned 

Invisible 

 

*

 

You look tiny in a body suit

Your flesh gathers in good

Looking groups

 

Dimples more like sinkholes

Trap my finger and all of a

Sudden I’m out an arm

 

I never thought you’d do me harm

But you’ve murdered a thousand men

And I can’t bypass all their house alarms

 

*

 

Kelsea. They lured me to the hearse with candy.

They had grins wider than the rest of my family.

And they spoke like it was nothing

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I will come back and read some more tomorrow. A work night tonight. I liked the free-flowing thoughts leading to strong ending.
"I never thought you’d do me harm
But you’ve murdered a thousand men
And I can’t bypass all their house alarms "
The above lines. I could write a epic poem from. Thank you Cole for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote