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Initiation

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Summary:
"Blood in, blood out" is a reference to gang initiation.
Blood in:
 
 
 
 
so daft in my grave,
 
a fresh-cut flesh-nut
slips & falls 
into proverbial groove
through an open vein-
 
this sleepaway cave
craved awake
on chords of light
through ancient rows
where I soak my cells
in the green serene
slurping gasoline
 
a break from those
unblinking 
high beam 
~eyes
at nonsense rituals
cleaving clean:
 
this all-seeing dream
winked at the dogs,
wormed our wrists
into one happy hominid
inbred lizard
pyramid scheme
 
leeching trust in our neighbors
through vitriol labors~
our cherries scarce
as the wasp burrows
and borrows
bones for a wage
all voiced in the rage
of an old radio wave-
 
a low frequency stage
all watchin’ the cage
where the girls strut by
(they wanna man
 with soft hands
 an’ a hard heart
 an’ a li’l doom ‘n’ gloom
 with they vroomvroomvroom
 from they womb ’til they tomb
 because)
 
They,
 
forked tongues in our pale sunlight
as chemtrails fume
our foxhole plumes
an’ ‘em cuddle-demons watch us
through ’ar teddy bear cams-

an’ you ‘n’ yer hats ‘n’ specs
an’ me ‘n’ my boots & b***s
…checked ‘em fools
macked in they mags
with they backs in they bags-
      (they got they claws in th’ kiddies
        with ’ar goodies in they hoodies)
 
They,
 
a simulated stimulated
invisible reptile 
legion-
 
a battle for earth
& sometimes when
the machines go down
I get stoned alone
while gassed or aghast
at the shape we’re in,
so grossed or ghost or
in like sin or
on like moss, or
 
a line of red 
slithering on the sand 
under my broken hand

intuition screaming
murderous dance 
all dazed & awake
’til a faith in snakes
can cough & quake
these buckshot              
cross-eyed
wanderins’                 “off”
far & away
 
it whets my beak
(so to speak),
with the infected blade
of a wet work
net worth
‘lectric stand
long for the cryptid-wind
from the babbling span
 
where attention peaks
over windows to the soul
for when the stars are right
and our prayers are set
we can hold our breaks 
and hearts high at the moon
and howl & cry,
 
ye, we’ll weep 
or shit a brick
’til the slit of day
while sweeping for bugs
beneath the wounded sky
all bled & burnt 
by shadows & milk
still slithering hope
to shape the land
with forgetful sand:
 
 
a footstep on the wind 
chills forever  
still slurping pangs
of soaring dream  
through the green serene-
 
I climb on stomach knots
up through the grove
on crimson cords  
of unseen light
 
along those ancient rows
through random
nutso ritual 
throes,
 
so daft in my groove
 
 
I always grave ’em the slip.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Blood out.
 
 
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