"they only burn themselves to reach Paradise"

left eye right eye sealed

a plastic box

ears mouth shut and bloodied 

smothered

with unwanted kisses perhaps words 

heart mushed up

a jacket potato

and underneath my fingernails 

a breakdown 

stuck

i wait for it

is there an easy way out of
this body - this empty vessel 

this soft fear

of falling further 

I feed on the everyday pain

the cuts bruises burns 

today I watched a bird 

falling from this tormented sky 
I stepped over it

the hot pavement melted

the faint bones brains 

broken 

as I 

cracked open a beer bottle

with a soul and a purpose