Thursday, July 22, 2010


THE DEAD ARE THIEVES, TOO


They’ll pick your pocket clean,
like that Ozark you left by the river.
How many times do I have to talk to you?
Taking up double-time in the mirror…
The bones I carry are the bones I’ll throw.
I’m ready to forget—
What have you even left me to sell?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the poem and I like the image! Angry shadows, separated by a city, I can dig it. "The bones I carry are the bones I'll throw" would be a good engraving on a gravestone...

love,

emc

hungry ghosts said...

thanx, EMC!

& i gotta give a shout-out to mr. owen cooper, fer taking the original "shadow shot"...

Anonymous said...

356 DeGraw

Monsters