Nightmare Mouth

half-smile, cigarette,

lip twitch, collision!

 

behold the crash dummy

carnage of

 

the attack of a misfired question:

 

lexical incisors puncture

moral meat without a

warning snarl;

in the downtown section

of the newly exposed

nightmare mouth,

zombie thought hordes

turn ravenous; malignant,

by the moment

the freight train pulse

returns to acceptable,

and shadow fingers

recede from the double-

barrel windpipe,

there’ll be brains

dripping from Normalcy’s

pustule-crowned chin.

Reviews

[roarke]

not fond of dentists? me neither. Not quite sure what the "Nightmare Mouth" is... what it relates to, a dream? a fear? an actual city?

The opening denotes an association with a mouth, an aspect of physical character, then the mouth/character asks a misfired question... who asked, who answers, what was the question? Does the rest of the prose describe what happens after the question is asked, what it causes?
A word here, a line there and the whole juicy thing jumps into focus.
possibilities galore.

[Robin]

yeah how it all begins with a word , diatribal ellipisis in interpetation and perspective , all to end with a ?