stampmouth

watercolor crankdream

painted on inmate canvas stream

fuel another steelconcrete spasm

and Pinny

(you know Pinny)

(Pinny talks)

Pinny rambles on and on

and the watercolor crankdream ends

and another begins

another letter

another letter

another watercolor crankdream

tear it carefully

(and slowly, may I add)

the dream takes Pinny

Pinny takes the dream

and a burn like a burn like a burn

and he can't get more

and can't get more

and the body shakes

(it never goes away)

and insects crawl up inside

the flesh moves and crawls

with a million little legs

in the godawful

watercolor crankdream

“my teeth are moving”

says Pinny

and Pinny talks

Pinny talks

blood trickles down

where the flesh gets picked

and the flesh gets picked

where the dreams are stripped

stripped to the waist in a concrete dream

and blackink watercolor crankdream stream

overflows the half-stripped bank

bank of flesh

bank of america

bank on this, my crankmouth man

as the watercolor crankdream

stopping slow

and starting

stopping slow

and a steel post

steel door

steel post beam

reek sweat and steam

the bone is hard but the steel is chill

and the watercolor crankdream harder still

contusion, they said

hemorrhage, they said

no one spoke of the

million little legs

in the godawful

watercolor crankdream

Pinny

wet and cold and stiff

in a fluidpool on concrete dream

eyes all wide

eyes all glazed

rainbow tongue

hand clutching the letter

of the watercolor

watercolor dream