I need to sleep but the boy in the field won’t leave me in peace or admit that he’s real so I can’t close my eyes until I have captured the verdict of spies that has left us enraptured by twig and by leaf by bird and by bone by fall of rain water and on him it shone… the boy in the field may never be real but he looks like another and they have each other.
She’s safe, if not whole and he’s unwanted, broken & insane.
Insanity may seem like a good cause for forgiveness or comfort but it’s actually a piss poor substitute.
Quivering on shattered legs, his spine broken by revelations gained in his “fall” from a great height… he fell so far and landed so hard yet he has never recovered from the truth of his actions.
The smile from the rickety defenseless monster seems so sincere that others make note and inform me of his safety; his well being; his painful continued death rattle.
This skeleton shell of a scarecrow man once preached sex and brimstone, starvation and salvation, while his inverted path to heaven would save us all even as he damned us to this forever Hell.
The boy across the field behind my house had more in common with me than ancestors; most other kids I played with were related to me but he was always my favorite
because of the way he looked at me… Later in life he was damaged in a tragic accident and our future conversations ceased to be.
In an unseen instant he was ripped away although he was still alive, and that’s more than can be said for others lost in that era of AIDS and ignorance.
I shake the love letter postcards out of my skull and pick one at random:
I remember his breath on my neck; the feel of our young bodies pressed together like the pages of a trashy tattered copy of a seldom read incest fantasy, which I will forever remember as the first time that I made love; the first time that someone I loved made love to me.
His reaching, reciprocated touch was tender, terrified and then joyous.
His movement: considerate, then brutal within the landscape of a language that we both finally understood.
In our joining, our words from a hundred lying conversations gained new meaning and were finally made honest.
His kiss informed me that I was never truly alone.
His cock translated every secret code I had ever witnessed in the eyes of countless lonely strangers.
His thrusting within me within the home of his grandparents… that place between sheets and layers of blood magic was always and will forever be sacred.
My love letter postcard memories are holy relics now tumbling out of my decades old skull.
Rectangular snapshots of a time before we were allowed to be who we truly were…
In a time before he lost who he truly, secretly had been…
A time when we had dreamed of a very different future that had been reflected in our tangle of shared flesh and blood.
everyone looks like everyone else, or at least everyone I meet of late reminds me of others I’ve known
like my life is a friendly little shop filled to the brim with charming knick-knacks, inspirational quotations and echos of a hundred baristas filling thousands of coffee cups… where lilting Donnie Darko music plays as Mobley Mouse’s older younger brother sits like a ghost in the corner of my clearly obsessed brain.
FireLion smiles as my other sibling selves recite poetry with all the power that we can muster.
I’m wearing Sean’s Tori Amos shirt which he gave me 16 years ago… yet it always somehow remains his.
Maybe because he lost his mind again last year,
He tossed me to the proverbial curb as if I were the junkie that he confessed to be, though who the fuck really knows?
Not that it doesn’t make sense…
It actually explains a lot – actually connects many dots – solves so many mysteries when combined with our own histories only we’re all addicted to something, aren’t we?
Alcohol, as a drug, betrays you very quickly. Anne Rice said something to that effect once, which I’ve always remembered though I can’t find the exact quote.
I can’t tell if I’ve been addicted to food…but if I have, then it is a drug that has betrayed me all too quickly.
Perhaps this is why he shivers inside me; not “Long Gone Sean”, but that child version of Jason Wright who whispers always beneath my skin and behind my eyes.
I struggle to feed him but his pained and palsied nearly lifeless form rejects the medicine he both craves and abhors, never knowing which decisive reaction is truly best after our fucked up father ripped his world inside out…
Sean’s biological father (“Ted”) was rock solid awesome while his step-father was less so; addicted to pain pills, he gave me my first tab of Xanax after I fucked his son in Sean’s gay, white trash, St. Helen, Michigan bedroom.
I reached my hand up to cradle his head to prevent it’s rhythmic bruising crash against the wall and I felt his confusing reaction as it quivered down from his brain, down along his spine, back through his blissfully tight asshole around my hard and horny thrust.
Later he told me no one else he’d been with would ever consider such a kindness… his stories were always so wondrously sad.
That 2008 reunion was nearly 10 years ago and apparently wouldn’t last the decade to come.
I wonder where he’d be today when this shade of Jason will struggle to jam a needle in his arm and feed our craving without judgment or rejection.
“We all have our junk and my junk is you.”
Junk: What William S. Burroughs was high on until he woke from “The Sickness”, when secretive Not-Dr.-Seward was cavorting with his Mugwumps.
Junk: The so-called yards where I played to escape the insanity of my own brutal “Protoplasm Daddy” complex.
Junk: The word is now forever associated with the 16yo boy at safe sex instructional who was the first I’d ever heard equate cocks, dicks & pricks with an addictive substance.
My so-called junk relieved Sean of his unwanted virginity, while his Naked Lunch variety relieved us of our treasured friendship, filled his veins with human immunodeficiency virus and bubbled out of him in a hateful madness which I will never allow to murder my love for him.
New location for poetic censorship is discovered days after Facebook nudes are similarly desecrated… Artists MUST be mad!
I think of Sour Girl Shawn as I pull on Stone Temple Pilots and walk to the train on my journey to Brooklyn.
I bring tracks from CD #3 and Mood Swings sing me to poetry between 168th & 145th.
I can’t remember attraction to Boy in Orange; attraction died ages ago without my notice… Still nice to see him if I’m ever so lucky.
Scribbler illustrates the back of my mind as I tunnel through Manhattan to deal with angry humiliating disappointment which I refuse to surrender to despite the temptation to ralph on the sidewalks of NYC.