Broken Moonbone
 
 Realburst, novaburst—
earlybird shoots the warm deer,
swallows the whisky; hair
of the dog who sunk
its teeth into your soul;
 
trauma-kit, bellyache—
the kite raping through the sky,
bladed, somehow razored, snipping
the twine of anything windblown its way;
 
evolution beats its chest
so apely day in, day out
as various roars of frustration
erupt in response to 
a God that doesn’t care.
     

I’m Not 

I am not a taped shut mouth
I am not a snuck into the hospital man
I am not a rhinoceros clinging to the oatmeal with its sunken tusk
I am not a Winter day in China where the snow turns  hazel because of the such such such such pollution run rampant in that toxic cesspool
I am not a clapping of hands for nothing special at all
I am not a clabbing of hands for the no-such-thing spectrum of it all
I am not a picture of the twin of a body double that’s been soaking in the darkroom for hours and now has developed into a double negative of a body double’s negative twin
I am not cornucopia Spanish drizzle wave of razors tackledummy
I am not glass beer spit out onto champagne roads of bolts and clouds come roustabout with seizure belly of spider cyst brain in my hands
I am not a graphic supposed to take time and the Beatles sitting in lab coats with the meat of their children granny dolls
I am not a simulation stipulation jelly made of he’s manned out on trout again known better in ariels as the sucklefish Toronto naked for a week in the Wing
I am not a hey you know I want out head is on I want out
I am not a donut bear in a canoe Universing across the river of milky galaxy
I am not a hey dee da did da de identity flea swish of fingers smoking a pinecone in a cadillac of mice
I am not a simple I am not a
I am not a grounder or floater leveler eyedust what’s dinosaur roamed Rex the tyrant most vicious found in america
I am not a big as what the kind kite says it’s cool to be kind
I am not a boot camp shoeless reddest wall I ever seen Tabby cats everywhere
I am not a freezeray faced blanch of light through double windowpane simple as that. 
 
EARTHEN SAVAGERY
 
Humans are animals that are cannibals of animals.
The word ornament. 
Silversun? WTF? Maybe in dinosaurdays.
The human animal is a cannibal of all animals.
I wish that I had Jessie's [?] [or name thereof similar’s] girl. Woman now. 
Kidhaver. Or "mother".
The Mutated Three-Eyed Duck-Billed Platypus Who Ate Bengal Tigers For Lunch In 
The Nude is the title of my first painting.
"Sorry," says the soul in permastasis. "I can be of no help to you right now."
Humans are scandalous animals caked in the mask of enlightened mammals who are 
cannibals of the myriad maskless animals.
Œnima. ī'm a tincan of mondays.
Humans made from monekies.
Nonwhite. And habitual animals.
Winter snow and the smell of smoke on my coat.
Tinsel, you say, you hung. For what? For what meaningless festivity this time? 
Caught in the mechanical combines of endless preparation for whatever pointless 
holiday is hammered in next on the calendar. Do you understand, Jilletta? Does 
it strike your brain properly?
Tomorrow is the beginning of the  Year of the Fatboy and Hungry Wolverine.     
Will be in attendance. 
 A brief Cessation of fascism.
It never totally diesoff. Somewhat ingrained in Nature. It is. Is why. Human 
Nature. The need of  those who cannot think to have their opinions thunk for 
them. Fed right to their slovenly  [slobbern] brains.
Irony rings golden bells. Of course in America the bells are golden. [That is 
[[and]] not a comment on the antiquated materialism of America].
You give me a limerick.
I've my own real-life limerick. Happened accidentally while speeding across a 
bridge in backseat of car filled with friends. Us all bourbondrunk and 
balltripping on mushrooms. "Where's the lid?"
"The lid to what?"
"The lid to the liquor."
"The lid to the liquor's lost?" spoke in a veryquick and concerned tone. Almost 
sounding like "Thelidtotheliquor'slost?" 
Thereof. The comfortably is gone. Left with things I never should've had in the 
first place.
Hereof mistaken made although it's a better option than a bullet to the brain.
I love you In Utero.
[Treefoil]. But..........but what 
about the original title? I Hate Myself And Want To Die.
The true title of Kurt's meant as a (well I guess we know now halfjoke) joke? 
And whathappened to it? It ended up unlisted on a blindgirl's compilation to 
raise $ for AIDS research. No. Wait..... That song was on a movie soundtrack 
compilation and the true-title WAS listed. My mistake. Mymistake. Take the mist 
and jam it anywhere other than 
here.##$#$#$#$#$#$#$$#$#$#$###$#&^^^^%here
Are there really suchthings as 
angelic bombs?
Four rivers and one fish. No dolphin-sharks to speak of. They look like 
businessmen. Business men of the sea. This is River. The spoon and vein of 
Ocean.
The spiderbells are ringing.
I think that means you have an anvil tied to your ankle on the docks. Anvil 
slowly sinking in the water.  Not yet out of rope. I think soon you'll wish the 
water was made of rope.
The eater of water. SunDays and Sun Kings. Maybe I one day was once one of. 
These things.
Tomorrow I'm either getting arrested. Or losing money. Or catching herpes. Or 
all of the above.    •.      Turtleshells
painted fluorescent purple. So the creatures can walk for a hundred years with 
postmodern glitter on their backs.
A bull in the heather.    Wander.
The fields.    Of Life.         Itself. 
([Let freedom bling. Inging]).
A man wearing a giant owl mask
feeds the birds on a bench near the pond in the park. 
The a park. The apart.
Ripped justlike snow and snowpaper.          Snowypoplar 
shakes off the dusty snow.
Rest of it is ice. Making many a big treebranch crackle and plummet to the 
curtained ground.
The Whiteboy colored ground.
A tincture.           A laden. 
Where's the breakfast in bed I was promised?- is anything ever on time?
Psychedelic.      Visions.      And.
No visions.
No visions except in things. 
Not visions. Not Blake 
or Blake-light visions.
And it's 4 fuckin degrees outside
in this neverending Winterish swill of climate [why doesn't anyone listen to the 
scientists?]
Up to our necks in owls. No. Morelike up to our necks in snow. 
And. Violent and Antic moodswings of Nature. [most of this could have been 
prevented had we listened to the scientists back in the '80s].
 
Antibodies and antipodes herein.
From here. On. Out. 
Hassan has been bitten. By cold? By
Dog? Bywhat? 
 
Antibodies and antipodes herein.
From here. On. Out.
Mankind is going faster than the speed of life. Which is an evolutionary 
problem. MotherEarth is not used to mammals evolving so fast. So fast and 
changing her diapers. And pouring. And pumping strange Manmade toxins into. Her 
atmosphere. Twenty-four seven for 200 years now. Humanity is committing a slow 
suicide. 
 Allaboard the train to human extinction! 
 Slo suicide. Sloslitting of the species' wrist. Bleedingout. Manmade toxins 
into. Her atmosphere. Twenty-four seven for 200 years now. Humanity is 
committing a slow suicide. 
Allaboard the train to human extinction! 
Slo suicide. Sloslitting of the species' wrist. Bleedingout. A bleedout. Like  
nonebefore. 
Like none ever seen before.
Deathful things are upon me. My current perception of life. Is dead. My 
apartment. Is dead.
My diet consists of massive smoke inhalation, ice cream and possible asbestos 
poisoning from my ruined half-collapsed frownyfaced ceiling that likes to leak a 
russet liquid straight from the kitchen light. Piss on my head. I piss in the 
shower.
I live in this hermitage of ash. And grime. Grunge. And overall unkempt. 
Unfixed. Uncared for by anyone.
The seedling. Even the seed. ling. Is dead.              I haunted 
             you of this      many
times before and you. Didn't listen. Or take. Any. Heed. Of
mywords. This's what then there.
Happens. To you when your compassion runs dry.bleedout. Like nonebefore. 
Like none ever seen before.
Go ahead. Run with those scissors. Natural selection is done here. For now. For 
humans. 
For now. At least.
At lost.        At last.                   
 
 
Magnani. Mouse.
Ah, yes. And society frowns upon
us.
 
Tota. L. Thanks. The Mother.ship
had it been just
a screwdriver to the south
would have missed the zap of AllMankind. And unto Its great Awakening.   The 
Brainstem a Rosestem turned 
straight to the color of Severe Epiphany. 

 

Bio:

Heath Brougher is the co-poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine, which recently won the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Magazine. He published 3 chapbooks in 2016 and his first full length, About Consciousness (Alien Buddha Press), in 2017. His work hap appeared in Word For/ Word, Otoliths, Blue Fifth Review, BlazeVOX, Brave New Word, The Helios Mss, and elsewhere