MANIA

MANIA

“fire and water I’m going to eat you alive”

my pink skin prickly buzzing skin hot matches fired along the rolling soles of my feet
wildfire fungus spreads blackens my lungs.
I know I can pound-down bounce-off can’t breathe anybody this clumsy brain I know it suck in smoke
Gagging.
A new strangest language less the missing-ness ideas hurl in.
Some Goddess Athene dips her pale icy toe in the steaming river grabs my limp wrist drags me
into the hottest boiling
spring brutal and clear water bubbles my blood she crushes her lips solvent pulverized fruit
into mine crimson wine my meals surgeurge up.
Tugging the slickened hair of my head tender translucent ears bent oily rolled my teeth scrubbed clean
cats tongue turns and twists
her grinding hips her flowing gnosis
against me.

What I would I forget waters of Lethe o under I forgot again
my goddess Aphasia swirls Athena Mania her eddies
what it was what was it slippery burning words reverent all balled up
hair ball
somewhere else stuck
in my collapsing whirlpool throat.