Friday, December 14, 2012

Infinity Loop






Infinity Loop






Down into our softest flesh
the bloodsick madness cuts,
to watch the victims falter
before the mind slams shut.

Light's forever dripping
from a never healing wound,
dry black petals falling from
a broken rose deboned.

Come witness darkness making
the cycle of what's wrong,
forgotten in the evening,
walking again at dawn.






~December 2012
I don't know how many of these horrific incidents have happened over the course of my life, I only know too many people have died in them, and that they are happening more frequently. Each time, there's a huge furor initially, and the next week, it's all forgotten.  
Except for those who have to live with it.

Deepest sympathies to all in Newtown, Connecticut








photo: black rose, (c) joyannjones 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Lion Fail




Lion Fail




Ladies,
love a tiger not a lion.
Roars are bloviation when
the lioness does the dyin'.

Love an honest scorpion
that never hides its sting, or
crab approaching sideways
not pretending to be king.

Fish-taled goats, rockheaded rams
may often go berserk
but never love a lion;
you’ll get stuck with all
his wetwork.


 
 

~November 2011, rev 12/12



55 tufts of lion fur for   the g-man



 
No offense to the Big Cats amongst us, just having some astrological fun.








Header Image: Nominor Leo, by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1883
Public Domain, via wikipaintings.org
Footer: Anatomical Man, Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry,  1416, by the Limbourg brothers 
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