APRILIA ZANK

APRILIA ZANK

FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD...*

give me the freedom of flesh

to share

to divide

to yield my roundness to you

and quench the thirst of your palms

to howl with the wolves

when you thrust your fangs

into the softness of my skin

give me the freedom of flesh

but not as long as I wear

a ring on my finger

give me the freedom of words

to spit the truth

between your treacherous eyes

bloodshot with the dogmas

thriving in the nests

of your lacerated brains

give me the freedom of words

but not as long as I need my tongue

to conjure untamed predators

give me the freedom of deeds

to grow my arms into spades

to dig and shovel away

the buttresses of altars

where poisonous fumes linger

above sacrificed generations

give me the freedom of deeds

but not as long as I swing a cradle

in the seclusion of my heart

she begged for freedom

she sang for freedom

she tried and died with it

and I wish

I could have proved her wrong

when she said

Freedom's just another word

For nothing left to lose...

OFFERING

      verse of a song performed by famous singer Janis Joplin who died aged 27

flesh

for greedy gods

to break the bone of night

in phallic bliss

under bruised skin

vowels fail words

gravity crashes

the womb's dumbness

light breaks onto steel

splinters spark on milk ways

under easy-iron eyelids

irises ache for wonders

PREPARING FOR THE DEATH

ON STAGE (IV)

wolf's head on his shoulders

oiled torso denuded

he dances to open her womb

for prophecies not understood

while she, the other she

is dragged to the stake

tied up with the rope

of her forefathers' curse

bound to the denial of mercy

by undoubted appraisals of guilt

no grace under the burning cross

love poisons love

brother stabs brother to death

guilt fathers retribution of guilt

in vain attempts at redemption

while time, this deceiver

digs in and out its preys

and prophecies grin in the embers

that quietly scorch

an old gypsy's eyelashes

APRILIA ZANK