love like justice

Blame it on me,

you know I can take it,

blame it on your family and

the hand you were dealt

and the way you don't give a 

fuck

about anything.

 

Blame it on the way you have no roots

and don't know what it's like to belong

or how you pretend philanthropy is in your 

selfish bones.

 

Blame it on me,

and the way I cared,

still care,

and the way I always get back up from

every lie and let down

and you pretend not to notice

or feign ignorance.

 

Really,

blame it on me,

and make it sound like I made the first

move and the first mistake,

and any other firsts you want to put on me.

 

Put it on me, baby,

you know I can take it.

 

Blame it on the way you live in secret

with texts and accidental phone calls

and act none the wiser

because I can take it.

 

Blame it on the way I shut down

shut you out

buckled down and made myself

stronger

faster

void of the outside emotion endemic in man.

 

Blame it on anything but yourself

blame it on the little green armymen,

or the real armymen,

they can take it.

 

I will pretend to sleep it off,

work it out,

walk it off.

 

I can do those things and more,

ut justice isn't the only thing that's blind.

Shaking down the old bones

A rust has come to roost with the

complacency of the now

as experienced through the mind

of a solitary satelite.

 

A kick is needed,

a spark.

 

A something to break the nothing,

the big nothing – only ever properly described

in the intrninsic link between sorrow and death.

 

Who could dare to dive into the mess?

Few,

and by default they are no longer with us.

 

What of the survivors?

Cowards, Bukowski would say,

or they did not hate it enough – yet who hated more than he?

 

Puzzles on the back of mysteries veiled in a fog.

 

Maybe he never shook the rust off

and it consumed him until he was nothing else.

 

What a broken poem

too much rust – and how does one shake it?

the current dogma

Machine aspirations,

a constant race to be mechanized,

ending in what?

 

Throw out free will,

stomp on the buddhists,

burn down natural medicines.

 

Inject it all into your body,

you number in a world of numbers

causation moves you anyhow,

and nobody asked for 

an expression of

the opinion your

biology forms.

 

Break down anything that can not be explained away

by science,

the infallible dogma of modern man

as flawed and subjective as what came before

with a few fancy tricks and facts to cover it all up.

 

Why explains the holes,

or even acknowledge them?

 

Shut them the fuck up,

and let's wait with wealthy promises

and blind faith that gaps the size of canyons

will be filled eventually.

 

Blind faith, 

partial truths,

dogmatic obedience.

 

Yup,

we have since this all before.