jelly eyed look

First published in 2006

moist jelly eyes

glisten against the sun,

hungrily sucking at each image

which unfolds before them.

flesh, sagging, pinned and stretched

across bone frame, lumbers

on meat sack legs, undertaking

self created, time consuming tasks.

on occasion each flesh sack 

spits and slobbers, grunting compliments

at others and their (unchosen) looks,

as if each blue eye, dark stained hair

defined cheek bone, are anything but

predetermined structures, pinnacles

of mindless math - for this instance at least

yet

such hollow achievements 

will surely dictate a lifetime.