Let us #partake Of the feast Blood of the innocent On hands & knees We were ever the beast We were forever the least Without cease No peace amongst us Preying on old folks & Youngsters Falling for shysters & Hucksters And still? We were ever the monsters #vss365

With a whisper And a sigh A curtain call We say goodbye Stage is dark The end is nigh Now all our nightmares Been #surpassed And though we wish To hold on fast What's done is done Past is past Dreams are dead The die is cast Goodnight my child We've breathed our last #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #Surpass

Surpassed? Shit, we've been Suppressed Fettered & fleeced With no recourse Nor redress Shit's a mess Congressing with conmen Used-car salesman slogans & Strong-arm men Who's to blame You know the name Looking for justice Fuck that It's just us #vss365

Before the fire I feel no #warmth Hearth gone cold A phantom flame With crack & hiss It speaks my name An empty echo In the night Bereft, I am Of sound & sight My will is sapped I cannot bend Is this, in loneliness The end? Shall I be granted Sweet respite #vss365

This is my last will This is my testament Wrote too many chapters To want to write The rest of it So lay me draped In linen vestments 'Cause I'm tired of investing In investments Tired of hearing Empty sentiments #Precious little time Might as well The best of it #vss365

#Harmony 'Tween head & heart Split in twain Was all in vain This broken brain All jigsaw shards Naught to see Pay no regards Play house of cards A Joker's deck Heedless of The call & beck In all the dreck The pieces tossed And all that's left ...Is lost #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #poem:

Down the lonely Wending ways Dark down here No light for days I'm marked, I fear The path, it strays Deeper still Intent to kill Hellbent, It's will I know it not & What I knew Was soon forget Regret & rot & Here I stays Lost within These wending ways #poem #poetry

I thought I caught #Lightning in a bottle But it was just Static You know the game 5 seconds of fame Warhol before the fall Ephemeral Maybe even venereal Pass it on To the next Flash in the pan The last mark An epithet Funereal #vss365

All men should be celebrating women - not just our partners, mothers, daughters and sisters - all women. Every day. We...I...fail at this often. Each and every one of you should be valued and loved and appreciated. We need to do better. I need to do better.🖤 #HappyWomensDay

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #obsessed

From the womb To the tomb We break bread & Play dead Suffocating On our own screams #Obsessed & Depressed Feelings repressed Our hands 'Round the throat Of our dreams And wondering What it all means #vss365

Mow us down Bullets flying With #velocity No mercy killing To be dealt With reciprocity No answers Mute in the face Of this hypocrisy Pompicity & Barren of Generosity #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #orbital:

The Earth, the Sun, the Moon Were one #Orbital in their ways In birth, were spun, too soon Were done Deplorable end of days And now we die Goodbye blue sky The curtain drawn once more Oh how we cry No wings to fly And nothing was it all for #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #stellar:

Off we go Into the night A #stellar sight My bones are worn Eyes are gaunt & Soul is torn I seek an end Goodbye to light Too long, this fight In fleshy form A puppet borne By mind & might I bid farewell No need to mourn Now off I go Into the night #vss365

The scent of hot oil & cordite wafted from the sawed-off as he bounced the barrels on his knee - much as he'd once bounced his little Janey. With Janey, he'd made silly horse-sounds, smiling at the way her #bouncy red curls jumped in turn, #vss365 1/3

The weight of all this - this - seems a #mountainous task. To put one foot in front of the other blindly searching for a foothold in an unknown future, waiting for those inevitable pitfalls. Death would ever be lighter. But where would the fun be in that? Let's walk. #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #enchanted

We danced the dream In moonlit mist #Enchanted glade What was forbade Became unmade A heart undone The dream it screamed Neath midnight Sun Tears they streamed & hands were wrung Til all was gone The song now sung In the end When all was done A figure left The lonely one #vss365

Tried something different for this spoken version of today's #vss365 - #miniscule

Would-nots & could-nots No good thoughts We have-nots Braid our own Slip knots Play hangman We hang, man Makes us say Damn, man Outlook Stays pitiful Piteous, inimical Hope seems So #miniscule As though Just subliminal #vss365

Passing attraction Breeding action Or just a #passion reaction Breeding heart bleeding Conceding & needing Compassion Eating & feeding rations Bearing fruit seeding Fleeting satisfactions Broken-heart beating Pleading & receding From subtractions #vss365

I'm tired. I'll bid #goodnight with my spoken version of tonight's #vss365 - #touch

Time to hide Crawl in bed Pull the sheets up O'er my head Will he come Again tonight Hold my breath Turn out the light Blind my sight So I won't see All the things He'll do to me Leave me be I don't ask much Here it comes Again... His #touch #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #ache

Swallowed by the #Ache of aloneness We wailed beneath A pinprick sky: Him and me Me and I Bitterly We fed the abscess Of absence While Old Luna Looked on, impassive And a chorus of coyote calls Rended the lonely night Singing Our song of solitude #vss365

In the end All that was left Were #bones Cold spots & cobwebs Empty spaces Filled with empty faces No tears for the departed The game was over Long before it ever started We were martyred You see? Her and him Them and me While the devil That sly fellow? Laughed with glee #vss365

It was the choice Of the choiceless Open mouth screams With no sound Just the voice Of the voiceless Broken-dreams Remained silent Broke & noiseless No way to avoid No avoidance Just #Pale faced & displaced Pawns on a board Defaced & replaced We erased... #vss365 Art: Kevin Lee

When it's cold outside (and at 30° below, it's got-damn cold), crank the heat. 🖤🤍 #GoodMorning

Another spoken version of the last couple of #vss365's - #wound & #blood - hope you enjoy:

Earned my scars Spilt my #blood #Wounds run deep I cannot speak A man? a freak? A Frankenstein? Stitched-up creature By design To die, resigned I feel the flame Just I, maligned Bereft of name No fault, no blame What is, will be Hated, feared This monster...me #vss365

Limned in light Though flame's Now guttered Watching as it Spat & sputtered Heart still fluttered Down below Warmed within The #lambent glow Formed by kin Perhaps, may grow In fallow field This final yield And all was left A seed to sow #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #ghost

The moon flashed me A #ghost of a smile Sleep, sweet child Your work is done No more to see Brother Sun The stars burn black We can't turn back Feet on track The ferry waits Pay your fare A pittance, see? A pence for you And one for me Now all is silent We are free #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #pain

Press your lips Upon my brow The sweetest kiss I yearn for bliss But what is this To feel no touch Perhaps was asking Far too much Relapse, was masking #Pain - a crutch I have no trust For love or lust In strain, I clutch My breast & weep Insane, to cry Myself to sleep #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #soul

I never had the #soul To grow old My soul's on ice Frigid pips on the dice And the game It's always been too cold The lies were sold: Be all you can be See all you can see But all I ever see is me Small & insignificant Derivative So I'd rather be a Primitive Acquisitive #vss365

Perhaps we'll dance again In #shadows cast By an unspent Sun Donning hemlock wreaths We'll sing nightshade songs And crush Death Cap mushrooms Beneath our feet Screaming with the laughter Of the newly insane: We're all fun-guys #vss365

I got a lot of wonderful feedback from from the spoken version I did for one of the #vss365 pieces I did yesterday, and now I'm thinking of making it a regular thing, so...um... here's another: #soothe

Goodnight, goodbye I've spoke my last Fell down the rabbit hole Too fast The cries are gone Screams are past Perhaps 'tis why My voice is gone No one to #soothe I'm all alone I wonder why My eyes are dry All that remains A single moan We die together Me & I And in the darkness... Wonder why #vss365

I decided to do a spoken version of today's #vss365 - let me know what you think. 🖤

Kiss my wounds & #Soothe my fears The war is done I have no fight No sweet succor No peace, nor light Release me from Unending tears These screams ever Assault my ears Echoing in metronome Please don't let me Die alone Lamenting all These wasted years #vss365

The raven stared With grinning glee (Life for you Death for me) #Obfuscate The truth you see (I hide beneath His prying eyes) And all that's born From Winter dies (Perhaps we'll see Sweet Spring my friend) 'Pon ebon wing I spy the end (Sing with me These final cries) #vss365

Sat beneath The #waning moon It's light I basked So cold and clear The chill I felt A taming boon My flesh it #quivered Death drew near The hand 'twas dealt A gift delivered All was silent Nothing left & From the vine I swiftly withered Bade farewell With my last breath #vss365

Staring at a Waiting grave On the #cusp Of being brave Perhaps it is My lot in life What came before Was steeped in strife & Nothing lay ahead for me What I've been Is what I'll be And what I'll be Is never free Shackles bind My mind at night Shortened days Dimming light #vss365