This notebook and I share a secret,
which I will never reveal.

This notebook, on the other hand,
has at times sleighted me slightly.

This notebook is not to be trusted,
for if I trust it, I may be betrayed.

This notebook and I share a secret;
it will never be told lest I talk.

The tribes were sending signals,
it seemed someone has been sleighted,
a war seemed inevitable.

Of course, there was a way out,
but it was risky.
Mingo knew the outcome
if his idea failed.

When he slipped into the canoe
& paddled north,
his woman knew she
would never see him again.

She was right as
the battle came two days later,
Mingo didn't.

Sleighted by a dark rainbow
Outer layer of self exposed
Born under a bad sign
Channels in mind left unlocked, unhinged
Chaos's smoking fumes ignite laughter
Dark, sad jokes bully the silent, in sullen darkness
Rust covered matrimony of the decaying stars
A thousand quasar exploding in the eyes of God
Universal respite, year of the Lizard
Black holes, cosmic yawning abyss, lone galaxies erupting
Rip down the sunlight,
Cast the web over the Lunar Spectacle
Spiders on Mars, a retrospective lullybye
Voyage to the dark recoil of my memory