Poetry

Poetry Dose: Eliot Cardinaux — “Go with your head to the bottom of the sea”

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Go with your head to the bottom of the sea

 

I

 

Go with your head to the bottom of the sea

Go with your head bowed lightly, do not sarcastically

 

Raise an eyebrow, voice, or future flag of this

Crowded nation under your eyelid, do not sleep

 

Casually, do not move mountains under the blanket

With your fist, your knees bent, your ruffled sheets

 

Curled up in a ball of fists, your bent, broken nightmare

Slightly bent, your broken balls, broken, bent, repentant souls

Re-potted, soiled and uprooted, broken, do not casually walk

 

Or storm the camouflaged encampment of fellow items

 

Do not brown or storm the rage with your worries

Do not forget – the fury in your soul is frightened

Of you, and not you of it. It is loved and ragged, two-toed

 

Sloth of angry envy for your feelings lost at rage

 

And its eloquent two-pronged hammock, swinging

Back and forth in the Southern breeze, it sways

 

Moving in an arc of fits to capture born tatters

 

Of a flag you’re moving underneath, a capital

A series of materials you wished to worship

One day left behind beyond the grafting skin

Tight worshipper, You followed, one day behind

 

II

 

The mask, wearing brilliant features of your torn

Brother garments to those officiated chances

Torn out of gutters, rent and broken, offices

Of chance: torn gull, wing-guiled and fenced

 

To be broken with fenced-off gutters. Piss

 

III

 

In the fluidness, take off your chance

Remove the filtered garment, district, horn

Haze, blare, glazed-eye in socket-smeltered light

 

A honing sharpness, eloquent and nazi, blazoned

With a family hilltop: crested bitterness and funeral

Trapped in smoke. Fantasy fissured and lightened

 

IV

 

Loaded, pictured, locked and smolder: chance per gain

Per capita, icon melded force-incumbent particular

Festive capita born and raised in Isis, married

On the fifth, on a day in May, on a hitched-up pony

To a horse on the right, a post for wary betrayers

 

V

 

Turn up and down the light noise catalogue. Repent!

Up in the hill tower, spread your thick tongued idling

Portrait up and down the tremulous border crossing

Tumble every which way up and down your bio

Your voices like acrid desert sand-dunes, like a

Bitter monopoly, sense. Spit out everything acid

And daydream everything re-morgued

 

VI

 

Our chances at survival, footing, busted, bested bastard bliss

Becoming brain. Billowing. Nazis, breaches, britches, bitches, brass

 

And buttons, bitten bullshit brawn-bucket blisters, banter disbanded

 

And dissipated, delinquent deliveries disturbed out of late

 

Night hours through Current Affairs. Go top off your list.

 

Go smog the fortress with your wish-wash currents

Toppling the milk duds piss-ant pitch for perforated,

Percolated perch-pleasant piddle-puddle filth, and Ply

 

Your weaknesses, pent your aggression up, purse your teeth

And ferry your own lips: swoon – on a dog catching, dream-splitting

 

Headache. Piss on my asshole, shoulderblade, career pissed off

You sister-in-brain, my in-laws don’t wander off

Wondering the daybreak dew away

 

Or slip snapped in half off the carried-on-away out-of-here

 

For daybreak to shout any kind of disturbed peace

Of fiction, and them again. I could take over any kind

Of world, but then, the end. The end. The end

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