CHOOSING SIDES

choosing sides

talking faces at every turn,
sea and forest and mountain.

shifting lips and shitting asses
and baboon pride,
distance and air and space.

agendas and plans,
disgrace and lies,
fools and the fooled,
quiet and dark and solace.

noise and spectacle,
style and pomp and circumstance,
clothes and houses,
parties and drugs,
drunks and suits,
electric light,
makeup, shops,
restaurants, waiters,
digital illusions,
fire, water, bread.

the march of time,
the appreciation of time,
sea spray on your lips,
the first kiss from a girl,
moonlight by seashore,
whisper of trees,
somewhere
a long ways from here.

overwhelmed

and tired.

diminished.

the endless dizzying dance,
slavery and then bars,
sacrifice all
and then take inventory.

the brainless tarts
still grab your mind
and squeeze until empty,
only it's muted now
and you don't mind
the pain
quite so much.

you can sit quietly
and just drink.
it is
a welcome change.

the words and
the notes
have dwindled down
to a sad trickle,
but in spite of it
i feel ok.

a few gray hairs creep in.

diminished.

Scott Taylor hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a writer and a musician, and an avid world traveler. His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Vast Chasm, Adelaide Literary, Unlikely Stories, Literary Hatchet and Swifts and Slows. His novels 'Chasing Your Tail' and 'Screwed' have been released with Silver Bow Publishing, and his novellas 'Freak' and 'Ernie and the Golden Egg' are slated for inclusion in an upcoming anthology with Running Wild Press. He graduated from Cornell University and was a computer programmer in a past life."