Skin in the Game

                              

sensitive skin/ skin deep/ thin skin/ the skinny

gimme some skin/ thick skin/ skin to skin

chicken skin/ skin me/ skint/

skin game

skin broken pus exploding from an infected boil

the sanctioned killings

will they release relieve US or destroy?

death cult cannibals feigning moderation

head chopping amphetamine-fed barbaric terrorist proxies

black snake dance of the cannibal giant

we dreamed you into being

who has looked into your eyes?

we are a land of orphans

eyes like windows into a place you didn’t want to go

democracy apocalypse ecstasy pie

no one remembers the ecstasy only the pie

a favorite image

Herbert Huncke cozmik junkie leaning into the smoke

inhale deep/ get naked/ city lights/ street lights

renegade boots/ double exposure/ gas light café

god light café

poetry reading tonight

dead dead dead all dead

the gone deathmongers whose only concern is moment

have no skin in the game

only nightmares

the poets are revolting

rebelling

renegade boots, cigarette ash dangling

how long how long

burn down, don’t drop

poems like smoke curl out float upward

in sinuous shapes disperse breathed in

secondhand smoke

it’s a killer