Beefheart Inspired Poem

“you don’t have to hit me

to make me know it’s there”

hopeless lovesick cynical

it struck me

I wasn’t even there

“that’s a man, I swear” 

blisters on my sisters

ballistic crush nightclub antics

a piece of the action

candymaker painkiller 

downward spiral

volition vortex vamp

delete wreckage files

before you own it

“The other night a woman came up

and hit me like I wasn’t even there”