Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Hate, The Motherfucker (Part 2)

**If someone is actually reading this, let it be known that this is part of a novella that includes "Hate, The Motherfucker", a piece published in "Quit Me".

The alarm clock was the cigarette burning my two already yellow-stained fingers. One of which was a calloused trigger finger. I woke up and smelled the last of the butt burning the carpet sample just beneath my hand, hanging off the bed. I vomited on the potential fire and realized that I had only been asleep for a few minutes, but it was enough. As much as I need sleep, I fear it these days. When I am asleep, my ghosts drink margaritas and dance on my crotch. I know this because when I wake up, my cock hurts and my tequila is gone.
It is 7am on the calendar Someday. The bars are re-opening after their five minute "wash the cum out" (into the waterways which is why I only drink alcohol) break. But I don't want to sleep. I take "Book" which keeps me awake. It helps blur reality for a bit. But ultimately, I know that if I fall asleep, Hate, the motherfucker will get me. There are also things out there that I feel like I should be apart of. I don't want to wake up half-way through the apocalypse, I want to feel it beginning to end.

So here's what is going on right now, after I jumped out the window and ran to the bar.

The bartender is in the bathroom taking a shit while getting a blowjob from the hooker who always shows up at 8 am, just after he sets up his Mise en Place of guns, knives, alcohol and Rimbaud poems. The hooker, whose name I choose to forget, gets seven free drinks between Monday through Friday for facilitating in the bartender's fetish.

The bartender serves me a drink then walks the hooker into the bathroom. I know what happens because I can smell the hell on her breath when she asks me for a light while she a gets one of her free drinks served to her, "mouthwash".
I watch him scratch his dick and I wonder if these two are actually married and just playing fetish games while the bombs drop.

(to be continued...)
Great New Flavor and Texture (2005, 2015)

I don't know how late it was
It was still dark
Thankfully
I dread the sun

I came home from another
Drinking shitfest
"Alive"
Loosely
I still had some 
Song in my head
I slapped my left ear
It did not jar
The song
From my head
I tried to control
The blackouts
Create memories now
Associations
ETC
So I'll remember 
Tomorrow
But I never
Remember
Tomorrow
It's just a 
Blackhole
Yesterday
I probably picked
A fight
Talked to a girl
Put up my dukes
Put out my heart
Opened up my 
Body bag
Crawled in
Slung my skin
Over my shoulders
And 
Keyed into my 
Apartment
Safely
If I remember 
It all
Correctly
This time
I trace
Untouched
Unscathed
Unfelt
Unloved
It feels good
But I can't wait 
To forget
Before I lost it
Completely
I decided on food
I needed it
But I didn't have it
I stared at the tub of
Butter
In the back
Of the refrigerator
For an eternity
It was behind
The empty bottle
Of ranch dressing
And the aborted
Pixelated squid
Fucking a squirel
Video
I pulled it from the back
Of the refrigerator and
Threw off the lid
I grabbed the only knife 
I owned
The one I was throwing 
Around the room 
At the ghosts
The night before
The knife was ridiculously
Large
But so were the ghosts
I plunged that blade
Into the tub of butter
Scooped up
A chunk
Put it in my mouth
Closed my lips
Around the buttered
Blade
And began to chew
On the butter
And the metal
And the night
I could taste the steel
Of the blade
The copper 
Of my blood
The salt
Of the butter
I kept chewing
On the knife
Gnawing
Scraping
Turning it into
Metallic taffy
Tearing in my mouth
Turning into bits
Of sharp
Chewable 
Shrapnel
And half of my blood
Is being sucked down my
Throat
And the other half
Is dripping down
My chin
End scene
On the floor
A sliver of sunshine
Slips through the shade
Bounces off of the mirror
Of the medicine cabinet
So strongly that 
My eyelids heat up
And open
I take a moment
Then another
Then one more
My mouth is 
Desecrated
Bloody cotton mouth
The handle of 
The knife is
Next to my face
I reach for the stove
Get a grip 
By the front burners
And creep up
It's old cold
White metal
On my knees
I am eye to eye 
With the one burner
That does 
Not 
Work
I get to my feet
Spit blood
And blood that
Was trying to scab
"I hope I die before
I shit this out"
I thought
Thinking of the metal
Thinking of living
"This wasn't suicide"
I thought and danced
Across the kitchen 
And grabbed the bottle
This will make the dogs
Think twice about
Eating me
A stomach
Full of
Shrapnel
But then I woke up
Unscathed
In a beach chair
Staring at an ocean
And I could not
Figure out how
I got there

I ordered a drink
Stared at the horizon
I might have smiled
For a second

I woke up again
And robot dogs
Were eating my stomach
Ingesting metal bits and all
And my cats just sat there
I noticed that the recipe
Did not require
Hope

I Don't Give a Dance (2006,2015)

There was a time
When I'd kick around
On a dance floor
Or in my apartment
After a few drinks-
 
Turn  up the volume
Try to feel something
Dancing with a full
Glass
Caring less about
My moves
Than spilling
Wasting
 
Now I turn the music
Up
Only
To drown out
The sounds
Of the cooking
Of human shit soup
 
She turns up the music
Smiling
Excited
She shakes her 
Fucking hips
"Come on!"
She reaches out to me
I'm on the couch
She looks good
I feel like shit
I grip the bottle
As she sways 
Closer
"Not tonight," I whisper
And swig
 
"If 'not tonight' means
'Not ever' or even
'Not anytime soon'
Then let me know
I'll find someone who 
Likes to dance"
 
She walked out the door
Went smoking
Maybe went looking
For a dance
 
There's nothing I can do
About it
There's nothing that I can fell
About it
 
The room is now
Just me, the bottle
And the music
 
Brenton Wood
I tap my foot
A bit
Swig
Bob my head
 
Now I think I'd
Like to dance
Just without 
A partner
 
 
Finding old work and gathering it together. New work in progress. 1/7/2015