"I can see the future," Sarah giggled. "Your grandson will become a porn star. A big one."

So wrong.

When I stare at my paintings
I see the itchiest of Fuck You's
Glaring back at me defiantly
In a pink too sweet for my stomach.

They are dragonfly sex pictures
Or Star Trek romance scenes,
Precious and perverse
Like a birthday party punch-up.

So wrong.
It suddenly struck me today that Ian McKellen is going to die during my lifetime.

This is a very sad thought. Time needs to stop so that this does not happen.

Please?

Silence

She is our symbol of cold innocence.
Lonely and romantic.

Untouched.

She is the darkest of grays in a silver-lit dream,
Icy like metal, skin frozen and raw.

Her love is bound by a child's chastity,
Captive to the nightmare of perfection.

Then,

One day she breaks with the fire of a fierce archangel,
Jaded but still the purest of whites.

A paradox riddled with heartbreak.
Ruined and beautiful.

Untouched.

Good Lord in Heaven.

He's Welsh and his religion has "lapsed a bit"

so hot

Bathtub

Recently scrubbed with bleach
and milk 
in the antiqued bathroom of an old house. 

She is there, 
warmer than the water. 

Her body hovers over yours. 

Her hand caresses you,
slick from the 
nectar 
of the 
fountain 
in your 
maidenhood. 

The bubbles, now wet and heavy with the heat, 
smell of spices, 
of jasmine and light, 
of snow and the sixties. 

You come hard, 
sucking 
sucking
sucking
water into your lungs. 

She holds you under 
and you sleep
with her in your heart 
and your unseeing eyes.

And what do we do when someone likes us?

We insult them and then we walk away.

Fracturing

My therapist told me to stop drawing faces.

"Draw something that is not a face," she said.

But how can I draw the rest of the world when only faces exist behind my eyes? Every piece of paper becomes a new personality, chipped off the excess of my imagination and breathed into existence.

But they didn't know that they could

never

leave.

They were doomed to possess the hollow shell of a woman.

"They call us legion. For we are many."

Here we go round the prickly pear where Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings horses (shrinks) and all the kings men (drugs) couldn't put Humpty together again.

Above all, always remember the therapist that broke you, the one that dropped you like a useless jar when you were a vase of translucent, white ceramic. You hit the floor with a cold, dark *ting* and perfectly broke into a million exhausted pieces of heartbreak.

"Peanut butter is not a pothead's best friend.

No-bakes, on the other hand, contain all the friendship your baked ass is ever going to need."
"Sparkles!" Constantine exclaimed, skipping away down the dark hallway.

"If by 'sweet',

you mean 'sociopath'."
Her hair was perfect,
silky,
whispery,
twirly,
feather-light,
soft,
(as a unicorn's tail)
innocent,
(as sock slide electric hair)
smoothed,
(with gloves made of midnight)
stroked,
(by those invisible fingers)
twisted,

Until.

It came undone.

First of all, I just have to get this idea out in the open:

Nickelback: The Musical.