DARE

These tender breasts
of cave-like incoherance
cup the heart's desires
fed to babes with better perseverance
and the firey game
plays over again
under the foot of fortune's wheel
rubber bands tethered to cold steel

The velvet of dusk's atmosphere
licks the skin like weathered tears
and scratches at the lid
to Pandora's Box
releasing the hounds of Holy Havoc:
tonight we stay awake
until coma o'clock

Joy and jealousy
paranoid delinquency
peer pressure
from every side of age's
octogonal equator
the karmic eliminator