A Poem by Scott Thomas Outlar

Some Aren’t Poisonous

 

 

This was the station where she left us,

orbiting now somewhere in the parallel,

gone adrift in search of nothing

in that pretty little head of hers.

But we all knew it wouldn’t last forever

so cancel your charges down to the last consumer.

Not open on Sundays in this dried out husk of a town.

A bounty has been placed on the head of three men;

five cents, ten cents, maybe a quarter-

If you drag them home alive

somehow.

If you don’t damage all that’s left

inside.

Before and After pictures shake the leaves

during a Dirty Autumn Amber Breeze,

casting dust away in smog-filled proportions.

Hasn’t been cleared up just yet.

Hasn’t been made right by now

so it probably never will be.

Basking in tomorrows that never come-

just another today, one by one.

Repetitiously chasing home your rhythm

as the drum beats faster in my tick tock visions.

Hearts explode in critical mass, organs produce a festering plague;

it doesn’t have to be that way;

it never was supposed to cave.

Stalactite cavernous regions of death,

buried deep in her sacred sarcophagus,

are still praying to the sun or Sol;

still prompting the players to join in the ancient festivities;

still moving the pawns with the piper;

still confusing the snake with the viper.

 

 

 

Scott Thomas Outlar lives as simply as possible, spending his days sleeping, eating, reading, researching, taking meditative walks, gazing at stars, pondering existential quandaries, listening to music, drinking copious amounts of wine, and writing prose-fusion poetry dedicated to the Phoenix Generation.  His work has appeared in various venues via magazines, journals and websites, including Dissident Voice, Dead Snakes, Jellyfish Whispers, The Kitchen Poet, Aphelion, Strike-the-Root, and Ascent Aspirations.  Scott can be reached at 17Numa@gmail.com.