PRESSURE PRESS ARCHIVE

inundated with internal tattoos

for jim delavern

what i want to tell you isn't pleasant, but
we have choices to avoid truths.   youthfulness

has not earned surrender,
hasn't yet lost the battle.

rebellions decay,
become worthless & petty as this

drama,
this time with everybody on earth,

intensifies
over & over.    the horrors

shred us all
& middle-age is always positioned

in cross-hairs,
in the fucked center of mine-fields

no lie.    you know it's war, the only consequence's loss,
all the shit gets worse.

everything about everything
is culpable, nothing is repairable.

the generation
we happen to roll into

is superficial
ideals.    nobody realizes depths are mistaken.    poems

don't cut it in
the real world

we spurt
cancerous cum,

words are
swallowed cum,

words
for honor

mean less,
dumb as buddha,

obscene as jesus.
even silence sounds sick,

& churchbells in the city
are melodic torture.    let women speak

& misogynists are validated.
this isn't some macho stance,

it's a man in erie
saying growing old

is resignation.
a sigh. youth begins mistakes

middle-age continuously
suffers with, as humans

we're fuck-ups
living wrong lives

no matter,
no matter.