you come to me in great duress a brainless exquisite hard candy sickens your head peppermint misfit mental hygeine fell off your list & smashed at your feet devience licks your endorphines urging bittersweet lying there you look like stillbirth quarter century young deathworm sips at your life's blood feeds cocoon it spun saliva draped words on your lips i'm burning with scorn consumed by your predilection your black wings are born the cankers & sores that grip your skin are much too strong for any medicine a few cells crying out for four-leaf clover the cancer' s cooking you, you're death warmed over you left this realm without packing impatient escapist sad soul to oblivion the body's rapist chivalry mesh scars on mattress clock radio buzz metaphysical resin remains just because