Thoughts of an Eaten Sun

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Kyle Tolle reading ‘Outcast Offshoot’

Walking rings around the outcast
third of all the men.
Tearing strips from their gear to
mark them as lesser ones.
Then we ate the strips out of spite
with just a pinch of irony.
They’ve become a cantankerous splintering of the glorified whole;
a mutinous and strangling growth.
We stood their dreams on their heads
and slit their ghastly necks in two.
A bowl to catch all the fluid to
reduce, reuse, recycle.
Cold compress and a drainage ditch to squeeze
out and away all the treachery
from their decentralized veins.
A horrid, pleasant smell which you have never known
until you have drained those dreams
and watched the remaining men sour.
Can you say you’ve never tasted rotting hope?
Never snipped the clutching tendrils?
Ahh a few men did outlast many others,
but an hour in a frozen lake thawed their resolve.
We see the way you glance and scoff our duties.
I’m only here because I don’t feel what you can.
I’m only here to do the job you are “too good for.”
I’m only here to trim outcast offshoot.

Kyle Tolle Poetry

All the grounds are dead.

The hills are naught but

markers of a thousand doom-craven men.

Bury their flesh and watch the headstones

rot… and crash… and surge.

The flotsam of decay eating through

the hulls of our ships.

Morose spray flits into my eyes;

sloughing skin peels from my heels.

Wailing, “Load the harpoon gun,”

as the bone-whales breach and beach.

We can ride a carcass ashore

and strip his blubber there.

Growing grains may be failed fodder, but

we’ll fire them all the same.

Those men were always so;

the dead were never living.

Telling myself my fate is different.

Kiss me, then…

Before we’re drug under.

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This is the first poem I have written in a long time.  Felt really good to write it.  I enjoy mixing metaphors of land and sea. Please comment below with your feedback!

This is also my first foray into providing mp3 versions of my posts. I like the idea, so will probably continue doing so.

Kyle Tolle Poetry, Writing