i plead guilty

not always,
i play departed.
chanting verse
with half
the beatles.
scratch dali
behind the ears.
i have lived
a life of war.
the jester
and the joke.
a gaping hole
to strangers.
ignored laws of
humdrum decency.
abandoned scripture
for inclinations.
a hallowed genius
sarcastically deformed.
more to say
than literally
or academic.
i sympathize with
restrained queers and
empty handed beggars.
fortune hunters.
i throw out a
generous fuck
and dance alone.
a criminal mind
is squandered.
along with the noble.
i am a dramatist.
dead or alive.