A Poem by Josef Krebs
Heading down to my tomb
I walk and shuffle the streets unmasked
Except in substance
While the psyche
Reveals little but all
There is left
Beyond the immediate needs
Of the ego
Or just vanity
Of existence
That’s supposed to prove something
To you
Or your gods
In loitering around
Waiting for anything
A sign perhaps
Of the blossoming of youth
In thought or deed
Or perhaps the promise of rebirth
Seldom kept
Outside a box
Seldom stolen
Much to your everlasting
Dusty chagrin
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A drain on your dreams
The momentary creation
Unilluminated bar the wick in your mind
That might
Occasionally allow
For that which is
Was meant to
Extol the virtues vices
Of inexplicable meandering
Through the labyrinth not of your making
Yet you
In situ
Unreconciled yet irreversible
In agony of heaven
Never indecision
Illuminated by sidelong glances
And awareness
Born on hyper vigilance
And unconquered demons of thought
Yet to be expressed
In emotion
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Corruption is the first stage after death
Political personal
Indistinguishable
A lifeline
Broken
Death
Often found
Seldom considered
Beyond
The beyond
Rotting from the feet up
As the brain and persona dissolves
Into a puddle
Piddled on your trouser cuffs
As if the moment wouldn’t crush
And you wouldn’t be rushed away
In the flood
Inevitably to follow
You down that alley
Into your mind
Mined
Beyond
Your last greatest expectation\
Josef Krebs has a chapbook published by Etched Press and his poetry also appears in American Writers Review, the Bicycle Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Calliope, The Cape Rock, The Chaffey Review, Inscape, Mouse Tales Press, Organs of Vision and Speech, Tacenda, The Bohemian, Agenda, The Corner Club Press, Crack the Spine, The FictionWeek Literary Review, the Aurorean, Carcinogenic Poetry, The Bangalore Review, 521magazine, Former People, Grey Sparrow Journal, IthacaLit, New Plains Review, Inwood Indiana Press, Free State Review, Poetry Nation, Witness, From Whispers to Roars, Nine Cloud Journal, and The Cats Meow. A short story has been published in blazeVOX. He’s written three novels and five screenplays. His film was successfully screened at Santa Cruz and Short Film Corner of Cannes film festivals.
