**disturbing thoughts 3 | rob plath


sometimes i want to put my tongue in a cigar
cutter & clip it right off, muting my mad mouthings

sometimes i want to ingest human flesh
just so i can have the sensation of shitting
out a homo sapien

sometimes i want to walk in front of a moving
hearse & splatter the grill & windshield of the
shiny limousine w/ my unembalmed body

sometimes i want to burn all my old tax returns
& w2 forms, & social security card & take the charred
remains & smear all the clocks' faces black
& not get out of bed for a year

sometimes i want to squeeze a fat zit onto a crucifix
& give jesus a blood & pus money shot

sometimes i want to let the cat out when there is
a yard full of birds just to see the gears switch
& its buddha nature suddenly turn to that of hunter

sometimes i want to bite my nails until they're jagged
& run them along my gums till my teeth turn red w/ blood
& then go out & smile at strangers

sometimes i want to bash myself in the skull
w/my heavy stone buddha, knocking myself unconscious
only way i know how to achieve nirvana

**first appeared in "Outsider Writers"