Alien Suburb (*Kubla Khan)

Alien Suburb (*Kubla Khan)

1.

Red in the sky
means red on the ground.

I let my dreams defeat me
in the core
of a dripping earth.

The wren on the cactus
with the silly hat;
*Five miles meandering
With a mazy motion…*

you puny, dehydrated
abstraction of me.

2.

My brain abruptly
stopped
producing melatonin –
scratching the root
of my eye
with pointy fingernails.

Dark is the truth
and its why you dwell
in the light of a lie.

Gently pluck
these flowers
from the sky
like teeth
out of my skull.

“What’s that?”
…Its one of many things,
but I’ll tell you what its not



*Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment (1816)