white blobs rose along the plinth of my spine
closed rose buds climbed up while standing
rolled W to E like bay clouds when asleep
white clouds feeling out a sound that beats
blobs white that grew from my own meat
used my vertebrae as a trellis or a highway
beauty masqueraded as a cause célèbre
pendant organ chandeliers merely decorated
the temple sealed in the slime of evolution
incubated seeds of its own demolition
dashing young trojans played the code and
won the day my defenses reeled and folded
to feel betrayal the mind wakes up with poison
steps away from its own vulnerable medium
formidably rejects the pale intrusion with
no choices but to challenge the illusion
the structure stands today ironically due
to the killing power of one they call the chopper
who does not discriminate as to whom
or what gets drowned in caustic dayglo color
how can the mind be sound in a perishable dish
the flesh no longer grounds by way of physics
a world view from a drain that led to a mission
to live beyond the end of a sound unfinished
by Ilyn