flesh I clever revel chi self ... #NaPoWriMo2018 Day 13

(sublimated perspective)
almost palindromic
titular

there I was 
a severed head 
of stated intention 
did I mention 
I was 
stating the obvious 
this missed information 
from my mind 
which was now free floating 
in a river of prisons 
of my own design 
as eye pine 
for old ways 
in these days 
that are now 
modernity 

the courts 
are all opinions 
fresh water sharks 
and salty mammals 
with fast fingers 
pouches for worn memory 
what did we know 
when we stood for nothing 
more than, nothing more 
than a reach 
of stardust 
our eyes tell us 
death is everywhere 
the latest life expectancy tables 
are always 
a soon to be posted 
by government cheese 

when taxidermists became angels 
they formed reclamation squads 
and the streets rejoiced 
with devilry wed to the moments 
of capitulation for moving bones 
stillness and quiet 
rain reigns of blood  
this piece of mind 
repeating for eternity 
something we knew 
ever since we admitted 
to the night sky 
with fires lit 
by the seas 
that we wanted 
to be gods too 

we understood too late 
however and hunker down 
in neighborhoods 
and refuges 
of ignorance 
the pleasurable pain 
of what once was 
pioneer lands 

 EJR ©