The Tear Garden

Empathy With The Devil

The Tear Garden


My flavor is the stuff of locusts. 
Hot chili firebrand spitting volcano 
teeth. 
Bleeding skies, sulpher mines... 
The foul breath of Satan's favorite 
gutter worm. 
You feel me when I'm close - an ice 
wind of steel stilettos
hammered in your spine. 
Quicksilver nausea spinning, spewing 
forth and everything's a mess. 
every posession you ever had - wrecked -
lying at your feet. 
Telegrams that tell you God is dead 
piled high on the TV. 
The incessant TV. 
Burbling. 
Distorted. 
A cheesecake nun advertising 20 brands 
of sea cow lemon shit in 60 different 
languages. 
A gargoyle handjives for the hard of 
hearing. 
Subliminals. 
Criminals. 
Phoney buisinessmen in thick rimmed 
glasses. 
Bad comedians. 
Laughing bags aping the Hallelujah 
chorus - the forgotton version - out of 
key (slightly). 
Just enough to annoy you.
My flavor is cheap perfume on rotting 
Man-Ray maggots! 
Dead maggots. 
My flavor's a wound re-opening by 
surprise, green fishes eyes flowing out.
Wriggling things. 
Gelatinous. 
Still alive and screaming - out of key 
(slightly). 
Just enough to annoy you. 
My flavor's a plunging elevator a 
millisecond before it hits the cellar. 
A cellar with mutated rats. 
Old - very old - lost teeth. 
Abortions. 
Garbage. 
So pungent it hums - out of key 
(slightly). 
Just enough to annoy you. 
My flavor's your flavor. 
Deep within you. 
Hidden. 
Waiting to get out...