Drinking the erosion -Aşınmayı İçmek

 She forgot everything
Drank the confusion down
For all of it's bitterness
All of it's initially sweet bewilderment

It was her response to life
The way things stood today
In the first awkward steps of a new year
Sometimes we want to purge all memory

Begging outside help for it
A trip to the emergency room
Under the surgeon's clean decisive knife
All of those familiar places are now strange

Sense of self flakes
peeling off in the peak of wiley dementia
People's faces dance no discernible countenance
No longer resembling those close to us

Light recedes and the dominion of darkness reigns
The last bus we remember getting off drives away
Emptiness a faceless schoolyard friend hands thrown up
with a wide head blurting every tidbit of advice we never took

Dancing in the dimming twilight of her mind
A joking entity with flailing arms and wobbly legs
ushering forward into the heated forge
Your personality once came out of...

Her şeyi unuttu
Kafa karışıklığını içti
Tüm acılığıyla
İlk anda tatlı gelen o sersemlikle birlikte

Bu onun hayata verdiği cevaptı
Bugün dünyanın durduğu yer
Yeni bir yılın ilk, tuhaf adımlarında
Bazen tüm hafızayı arındırmak isteriz

Bunun için dışarıdan yardım dilenmek
Acil servise bir yolculuk
Cerrahın temiz, kararlı bıçağının altında
O tanıdık yerlerin hepsi artık yabancı

Benlik duygusu pul pul dökülür
Kurnaz bir bunamanın zirvesinde soyulur
İnsan yüzleri dans eder, seçilir bir ifade yok
Artık bize yakın olanlara benzemezler

Işık geri çekilir, karanlığın egemenliği başlar
Hatırladığımız son otobüs duraktan uzaklaşır
Boşluk: yüzsüz bir okul bahçesi arkadaşı
Eller havada, geniş bir baş
Hiç dinlemediğimiz her öğüdü bağırarak

Zihninin solan alacakaranlığında dans eden
Savrulan kolları, sendeleyen bacaklarıyla şakacı bir varlık
Seni kızgın bir dövme ocağına doğru yönlendiren
Kişiliğinin bir zamanlar çıktığı yer…

Pray they refuse you

 They looked at me
Told me my appearance determined
Who I was supposed to be
That i was not a part of it!

That I could not separate myself 
From the skin I was born into
The eyes i see the world with
Everything I went through

I am not a part of the collective
Accept the othering bestowed on me
It brings a lot of sweet relief
I see my few truths prevailing
over their thousand beliefs

They looked at me
Dictating what life should mean
I dished out silence
Snack sized scepticism
not full blown defiance

For these are the people 
Who would crucify christ all over again
So being refused by them
was such a privilege

A chihuahua da boa viagem

 A sneaky chihuahua
frustrated with it's size
going off like a maddened bell
growling and shrieking incessantly

All bones and tight furr
shivering with energy and sass
advancing then backing off
simulating atttack

Passersby pretend to ignore
Their awkward politeness entertains
The dogs' owners dossile and indifferent
In their reclining chairs growing their body fat

The dog squawks like a sick crow
Warn out on speed and cocaine
Tripping up on it's own leash
Then repeating it's croak meant for a bark

O inimigo dentro de ti

 Como o inimigo é sujo,
busca despertar o pior em você.
Astuto, ele procura uma encrenca,
uma que facilmente escala.

Manhas e manias para instalar instabilidade.
O inimigo é sujo — reconheça essa sólida verdade.
Sempre atrás de confusão perturbadora,
caminhando no seu sentido, um furacão.

Fúria pingando do queixo,
maldição permeando o hálito.
Um demônio buscando mentes vazias,
um tipo de curupira ligado à sua sombra.

Direcionando você à beira da tragédia,
puxando as cordas da noite.
A curva na boca é ira, não riso,
não franze a testa.

Marmitex de poste

 Marmitex de poste
Farofa amarela,
quase laranja,
que absorve o mundo.

O sol estragou o feijão.
A mulher sem teto deixou,
embaixo do poste,
o antebraço como travesseiro.

Ela sai do dia e dorme.
Ela anda de mãos dadas com pesadelos,
enquanto a marmitex apodrece,
sono e poeira voando por aí.

Sendo puxada pela marmitex,
como uma bateria.
Uma esmola chegando à mão,
como a rua, sua anfitriã, chamando ela.

Compliance and safe hate

 The company ran on ultimatums
Tailor made cigarettes
Ruthlessness that seemed sexual
Organized factions inside the organization

Viruses extorting their way into promotions
At the christmas retreat human resources group
Threw a junior employee into a deep hole for fun
Stand around place bets on when he'd climb out

But the young man stayed in foetal
Until he was rescued by the park owners
All smoking cigarettes, smirking and smoking
They know hellish things you don't

Their act of rebellion their safe self hate is cancer
All staff members smoke expensive tailore mades
Blowing out and consuming their own gestures
Their own gaseous poison in poses of reason

Until zero

 She said eat more salad
You are always stealing from my plate
When you take those greens
It's a tick and a pinch

Stay healthy at this level of the game
next year only hours away
minutes slaughtered
Until it's all zeroed

Have to walk have to move
Like that revel mood
Eat that salad 
Vegetables with your goals and dreams

Long life just not enough of these years
Each day a plate of freshly picked leaves
A tick a drip of lemon
Juice tenderly squeezed

Salted down the hatch 
last year has gone