Jeffrey Side

 

DARK DREAM ENVELOPES

You dispel invisible improbability 
in the rain and 
ignominious expectancy as we 
seduce damp noses near 
the uniform vortex shrieks
and your vessels entomb

impersonally undisciplined but sack 
crash riders terrified define
perforated perfection sleeplessly all
over the sky overflows 
deliberate enticement hypocritical concubine 
looks drolly vestigial dreams

vibrant balmily undesirable degeneration 
envelops unholy perfunctorily agnostics 
upright condescension burns carelessly
plastic dolls immortally forceful
sharp craves foul peel
fall abruptly dangerously all

beneath the virgin coma 
sighs be luminous the 
lust dies blankly narcissistic 
streets mark complete vowels 
yet ensnare sticky witches 
at the stoops dimly

body nourishes thinly boastful 
chivalry capitulates dazzlingly travelled  
wile the evil rider 
defers dark weird and 
quaking about the seaweed 
reduces night scared unsafe

lost in broad radiance 
an unreliable map for 
whose sake the guest 
makes his way and 
misses his turning so 
glittering on the mist

we condone mammoth rubies 
before the god of 
life comes again so 
sensuous above the slime 
we prod transparent delusions 
the spirits way cool

the vision is going 
strange and hot the 
sea you eat desirous 
eyes among the towers 
beware the night is 
good shadowed and hopeful

 

 


THERE COMES AN END TO EVERY GOOD DEED

On the hills 
of summit visible 
where the relentless 
women hate all 
aristocrats after

we'd spent some 
time with them 
after the marriage 
an enormous expression 
of personality

and the sense 
he'd been around 
after the split 
she and my 
son Jim

were around the 
same age she 
produced from under 
her dress a 
crest with

country roots or 
something some of 
the angels sided
with her qualities 
and profits

shall encompass the 
city and the 
walls collapse a  
most tragic lament 
with jumping

as I walked 
he really looked 
bad to the 
island or the 
Red Sea

but the modern 
man must dominate
then submit and 
she remains undaunted 
in France

 

 


THE NECESSITY TO ALWAYS LIVE IMMORTALLY

I'm going away I've 
found life again I'm sick

of language everyone 
has found history

and textbooks lying 
around all kinds of people

on the ground while drunken 
in the entry or fighting in

the war we always live 
immortally you made that

plain and clear and even 
though I'm thinking this side

of the sphere we never get 
what we want until it's

late in the year one day 
you're here one day you're

there it all vanishes like music and
footprints on the shore that

wasn't my intention when I came 
in through the door your mask

shows nothing and your face 
shows nothing more

 

 


YOU COULD HEAR THEM CRUNCHING

Are we really so 
up and down the 
next I heard her

say how have these
things happened anyway I 
need not hanker after

comfort but now feel 
I must carry on 
for some nebulous end

so I went out 
tonight and life was 
headed alone made nor

stringent aspects ruling our 
days I'll never know 
anyone else who's been

part of my life 
she said perhaps he 
hated maps or some

such aspect of dragging 
out suitcases while screaming 
without considering the public

I had the morning 
free and cut my 
moustache it's better like

that pulling plaster by 
the river listening about 
visitors scraping more than

enough honest fundament history's
hollow freedom yet immortal 
forebears numbering the crest

 

 


I TRIED FOR A DAY OUT

Apparently, she kicked 
in music night, able to 
regard the server as an 
approximation. But ordering 
chronologically was never 
my thing.

And as many times as 
you have, there can be 
no real step forward. It 
is much more than you think, 
because he calls her often,
sometimes.

I don't know why he 
does, though. He's just 
desperate for a flush in 
Cuba. I think something could 
have happened, though. I knew 
his son.

Nobody left to regard 
you. So I came back 
upon the hog and found 
pleasure in renegade streams 
in this sector. Don't expect any 
favours.

So much time is wasted.
Quantity is everything, it 
seems. Sometimes I've got 
money, so I've no need to tout.
You may hear of her soon, in
Baltimore.

    

 

 

 


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