Author
Alex Mascarenhas
38 works
Alive – or Otherwise
I open my eyes
Low and behold, to my surprise
I am alive still
And then… silence
And I died a little bit more.
Fascinating how you can keep on dying even when there’s no more life left in you.
And she was moved by nothing else but the crushing weightlessness of her wants.
Batman and the Maid
However sad for a true man
It has been said that a woman
Either loves or hates; she knows no medium
Close your Eyes
You close your eyes, look at the ground
Where the clowns sprinkled the clouds with glitter
Your ears are keen, head on her mound
Corny Thievery and Wit
To spend my ink on my ilk
Proves to be quite a daunting task
To not error in my speech
DarkWoman
And so I see the world with black eye whites
I touch you with dark hands
Your insides are less than white
Down There
I do not want to die
But I do not care if I did
A day, two months, ten years
Drunk, Sinking
I once drank wine so sweet
My heart sighed, filled, replete
Happily the town drunk
Heaven and Hell
Love, I will go with you
Wherever you’re off to
Some say that you descended from cloud nine
Hole in the Whole
I looked deep, deep into the whole
And the bottom was there, so close
The bottom... so close... could’ve just swallowed me
Honey and Olives, Somber and Sober
I like to snack on olives
I like healthy treats
But, hon, do you even care
Incubus
Ask me not what I think of you
My dark tongue could desecrate your pupils
Time breathes, time heals, and time knifes your scruples
Jewel of Denial
The sun, he made a late appearance
Hungover, he rose up woozily
Beating, burning, itching bad
Ravenous
I don’t know this man – never met Ray, yet…
He knows me; I know him
I don’t have a wife – her name is Babette