enjoy this Chris Butler writing
in the Scars Publications free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Antimatter
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Down
Chris Butler
I don’t
want to live
down in the
basement,
where the single
synthetic sun
beams artificial
light from a
dangling bulb,
swinging my struggling
shadows with each
futile pass as I bob
for the contents of
cobwebs,
succumbing to
surrounding mouthfuls of
fiberglass insulated
cotton candy mixed
with carbon monoxide.
I hold
my breath while
hovering over the
graveyard corners
of discarded cockroach
carcasses, hollowed
out exoskeletons
of insects ingested by
incest, marked with
toothpick crosses,
all underneath
the weight
of home.
