the Noisemaker

that steel relic train was a visionary bullet discharged from God’s semi-automatic tattoo gun.

that greasy iron slug burrowed its body into the poisoned apple heart of an orphaned humanity.

from the gritty astral cavity of Sunshine box car emerged the Noisemaker.

he unbuckled his scarred case and a universe of life and emotion rolled out like a creeping drunken wave.

then, he unzipped his lion-maned head, and inverted scripture wildfired down an undead turnpike.

riddles bloomed red and withered cobalt blue, and rooted in the earth through the holes in his exhausted soles.

glorious starry vines strangled hemlock hypocrisies and beheaded venus fly trap political rhetoric.

planets yo-yoed to the simple savage symphony. time and space were lyrics and tune.

zombie-saints danced with a livewire satellite strum.  

then the sacred ink dried, the sun winked its golden eye and that tired train rolled off with feline nonchalance..

the song soaked all lives it touched.  also drowned a few rats.

then, the song, too, found gnarly slumber in Southeast Asian jungles, a deserted desert Eden, on the bloody racial weirs of Darfur and on the brittle pale steps of Congress and Parliament .

honest spare change evaporated in a cracked human hand.

the Same stood (and still stands) mighty in the Noisemaker’s wake.

but somewhere, on a dusty face,  a tear turns to mud,

and a newborn melody pours from the lips of youth.

Fate, dressed in her clingy blue uniform, promises,

“the train will be back around shortly.”

Reviews

[Crowley]

We need to sit round a camp fire, fishing ploes in hand, cooler stocked and have us a poetry throwdow...invite your uncles, I'll bring the strippers. This was gangsta in feel and epic in scope. Loved this.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

you've caught me on the streaming surreality of the most stunning ride I've been caught by in a while~ and I don't even have a ticket!~ =D~ (but hitchin a ride on this cerebral locomotive anyhow) 100/100

[Maurice]

Great as usual.

[Anna]

Great job

[a]

wow ...........

[India Brooks]

One amazing line after another: BamBamBamBam! Each a line that could work perfectly on its own, joined perfectly in this incredible piece :) LikeLikeLike

[Kerry O'Connor]

You just keeping dropping it like it's hot, dude! There is so much going on to take in all at once, I'll have to start all over and read it again. Amazing thought process going on.

[The Silver Chord]

Now this is what I call simply amazing. Can say this is one of the best writings I've come across in a long time. Good job.