a blank epitaph enshrined in dust blooms coal-black petals of which her lovers pluck one by one – here, ‘neath the seeds of repent where requiems are born beyond sound beyond science delineated in a still-life of an open house where she hangs safe from the perversion of words absurdists have long tried to unbolt … Continue reading BLANK EPITAPH – A.G. Diedericks
Richard Rothwell’s portrait of Mary Shelley ~ 1840 Frankenstein’s Bastard I malformed from aborted bloodbaths to bite the hands of a kleptomaniac midwife Dear Frankenstein Do I, embolden your bestial apathy with my woes? Am I, merely a pantomime for the parochial aristocracy? fated to this warped pestilence — the stench of patricide gestates in … Continue reading Frankenstein’s Bastard – A.G. Diedericks
It never rains where I stand. Cape Town’s water drought is rapidly approaching level zero, the city needs it more than I do. You died and I’m still waiting for that tantalizing storm they warned me about. Your family wept for you and chose to utilize me as their scapegoat, waiting for me to immolate … Continue reading It Never Rains Where I Stand – A.G. Diedericks
The cosmos misplaced me left me to meteor into this zeitgeist of insipid distractions Where i roam as an anachronism under the city of lights in pursuit of remnants from Lutetia with nothing but a pen & piece of paper to live on Problem is I’m not a poet Let me tell you how i … Continue reading Notes On A Suicide by Hemingway – A.G. Diedericks
Our scars were vibing together long before we ever learnt how to dance She unearths the secrets I didn’t know i had Torn up maps & cracked compasses subjugated by the unknown She comes with a lot of baggage but she packs light We feel on the outside blowing smoke on their mirrors Our reflection … Continue reading Bipolar’s Mistress – A.G. Diedericks
History void of sapience I am the spectre of regurgitated fallacy I carve the crevice in impregnable absolutes The blood-spatter in the crevasse of your ice sculpture Where i birth postmodernism and cut off the crimson springs of solipsism Children raised by the idiot box extinction of libraries words replaced by letters A climate change … Continue reading Anachronistic Rant – A.G. Diedericks
She’s the clandestine love child of Plath and Poe Where it is dark Her words will glow You’ll catch her on every Library’s most wanted list; Armed with a loaded lexicon Her paper cuts plagiarists Nuances ciphered in arcane; She transfigures into the Bibliophile’s Cocaine A Bonnie liberated from Clyde Enslaved by her soul.. She … Continue reading The Library Bandit – A.G. Diedericks
Yes I’m uneducated punktuated by subversion My verses run grades in reverse I see only art in my continuum I am averse to your curriculum There’s no path for me in math No rhythm in my algorithm No symmetry in my poetry I bastardize established linguistics I do it Just to smite the elitist erudite … Continue reading AUTODIDACT – A.G. Diedericks
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