New Blood
Remember when
As I sit in
A grizzled basement
All the wounds
Taken in
On a new voyage
A safari
Some new scarring
A needle and wire
Like those of a
Splatter mask
Now in use to bind
The ties of a wound
On the flesh
With metal mingling
And comforting
To let rest
Let the stitches nurture
The things sustained
From nature
Quick with the
Memories of bullets
Ripping through
In every caliber
It hurts
Crossing wires
In the skin
Like a wicker basket
Even with all the
Bitter liquor you think
Quicker to pour on it
It burns
When the surgery
Is done
Now left is just a scar
To remember every millimeter
Of wounds that scored through
And tore exiting like new
Scars were being formed
As soon as the wounds came
All the blood I was losing
All those transfusions
Every millimeter of flesh
And metal mixed together then
Still shocks now when
The needle enters and exits
As rusty cheap mechanical
Wire brings back
My flesh together
Cutting the wire
At the end
Letting the pliers and
Wire cutters clatter
To the concrete ground
Of a blood-splattered
Basement
Sitting back under the
Silver lights
Remembering when
I drank wine that
One morning before
We ventured inland
And feeling it
Burn my throat
Millimeters
Of wire
Millimeters
Of fire
And the desire
To remember when
Consume Reality! 