Dead MuseA Poem by FlatDaddyThis is the first piece I have written in eight years after an accident which forced me to quit my job, go on disability and stay primarily in bed. Things haven't changed -- except I am writing again.My baby's all black and blue and broken, lying on the bed beneath me inside me, Done in by ice and eight years of morphine that never ends the pain -- but dulls the mind slays the will and killed my baby dead.
Mad pain's my one steady date, all dolled up in dopiness, dizzied dreams of what was, what is, what will never be and will never end.
Screaming in the night she awakes sometimes to whisper in my ear: Sweet Nothings. Sometimes she grins a little wicked smile then bleeds me back to druggy peace where I never dream of her now never see more than her back that fine a*s that's bottomed out, bequeathed to another by now, I'm sure, but still dead beneath me inside me pleading softly for me to call her "Franky."
So now, at last, bending to her perverse will, I think a quiet, desperate "okay." I hook her up, a web of wires that link her to the fire in other's dreams, a frantic search for someone's spark to siphon off and pump her full and blow those baby blues wide open.
And now, dead eight years, I think perhaps just maybe ... I think I see a smile. © 2011 FlatDaddyFeatured Review
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4 Reviews Added on December 15, 2011 Last Updated on December 26, 2011 Tags: poetry, writers block, muse AuthorFlatDaddyAustin, TXAboutFormer performance poet, actor and singer. I was injured in 2004 and no longer perform. I have written for many years, mostly performance oriented material. My injuries have caused me to be restri.. more..Writing
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