lifeless mania

lifeless mania
september 25th, 2011

selfish manic-driven buzzing heartbeat racing
over the shelf, over the high noon sun and then
and then
and then
the words won't come right and the sentences
are sloppy and the best thing to do is to shut 
up but it's too hard, can't do that, can't do that
because thoughts are racing into denial, trying so hard
to avoid the slip, trip of the tongue, trick of the mind
speeding into the devoid strip of agonizing pain and tears,
lost on the highway at 294 miles per hour
soul lost, heart bound, body scarred
can't breathe,
lifeless.