Hoodie

I hide myself under hood

Waiting inside

Praying for rain

Hoping my flanks are covered

Taught early that the world was ugly

Let me hide in plain sight

Get from A point to B

Then from B back to A

Let it take one day

Hidden seen

If I could wear a mask

Form a field of force

Absolutely disconnected

But interactive

---Eugene Argent

Aimless

Aimless

Without direction

Floating nowhere

In to nothingness

---Eugene Argent

The Greatest Crime

If suicide

Is a river

I am treading water

If life

Is some sort of game

I have lost

Procreation

The most terrible crime of all

---Eugene Argent

Stevie Wonder

Driving blind

Out of my mind

Running on E

But sober

Eyes are X

But clean

Moving through smoke

From eighteen-wheeler exhaust

Needles prick my skin

From the bitter biter cold

White cracked rock

Lines the gravel road

I pull over

Waiting to catch up with myself

---Eugene Argent

The Ticking Continues

I am a nervous wreck

My face keeps twitching with fear

My limbs are feeble

Don’t look for eloquence here

For I have lost it

---Eugene Argent

The Ticking Continues

The ticking continues

The forward clock tumble-stumble

Laying the path for me

Because I choose it

Getting my foot out the door

Because I believe it so

This pain shall pass as I leave

Absolutely on my own terms

---Eugene Argent

World Weary

Weaker than the world

Foundation won’t hold

Three steps

And then the fall

Can’t shake hands with buckled knees

Crumbling in mid-stride

Every wall

Is a leg

Every solid

Fastened object

Provides a course-correction

Couldn’t keep the head up

Without adrenaline

Couldn’t keep an open eye

But for the tears

Blessed atrophy!

How you coax in to catastrophe

Cursed sleep!

How you lure them to recline

---Eugene Argent

Sound Solid State

Lookin’ for a solid state

My mind is movin’ every place

My body’s like a bowl of jelly

Dead dogs lappin’ at my belly

If there’s a time and space

For everything

Then I have left this world

A time and place

For everything

We broke the physical laws

Lookin’ for a solid state

I just can’t sleep when I’m awake

My bones have lost the spinal jelly

Dead dogs lappin’ at my belly

I wanna find a form

And fix myself

I wanna feel a certain way

I wanna find a wall

Affix myself

Twenty-four hours to the day

---Eugene Argent

Memorex Burn

There’s me

At one end

My back against the wall

Then there’s the hall

There’s the baby

At my left

Oblivious to all

Then there’s the hall

At the other end

A pyramid

Sending out the call

But then there’s the hall

The hall

A length

At length

With blood in the air

I stall

For I feel the oppression there

---Eugene Argent