Friday, July 15, 2022

electric chair [commonplace] - original poem

electric chair [commonplace]

one last request 
before you fry

let me out of this hole

besides the obvious
asshole

well I guess besides that
you should let me fuck your mother
batman

this man is willing to die in peace
the priest proclaims

as I painfully hold
this prick of pain in my 
pruning fist

if any man
shall deny the things
that god puts within him
he must hope
that a blind saint 
shall save all
of those who fry

for the sanctity of my name
I can hardly hear
as the shackles lock in place
and you warm in the pain
of electric chair currents

revenge will be mine
excruciating pain 
all throughout my body
I'll jerk around like an infant
being rippled to shreds
by a pack of vapid dogs

ask yourself
who's the scum tonight
as you puff your Cuban cigar
you're legal scum
that's the only difference between

a single volume 
of legal law
that distinguishes
what you and I do
although oddly similar
we need be distinguished
no matter how purposeless 

as good and evil
god and satan
black and white
are constantly dodging machetes
unsheathing their knives

but even the highest voltage
cannot cook my veins
or boil my blood
cooled by the icy crystals
of her vocal hex
resonating her honey soaked throat

as my body burns the electric chair
and I thrash around in misery
and push the priest's book
out his vile stubby hands

my numbered uniform
is all bloody
I'm making not one noise
head dropped in an electric headband
covering my burned eyes

but I can still see
oh I can still see
and it's nothing but flakes
of white light refracting
off black stones of coal
floating in cosmic clouds

how commonplace

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16588689-electric-chair-commonplace-by-Colvet



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