“Soul Suffers” © Thomas Riesner

 

girl

i want to kiss the scars on her wrists
i want to kiss the scars on her legs
i want to be there when the human demons
close in
i want to soak in her black blood
when her beautiful mind tries to check out
there is no peace in a small teenage room
i am powerless to defend,
only sit still and stay silent
there is no justice in heartache
no redemption of sufferers
there is dirt under the fingernails
of entropy-laden robber barons
that will remain undetected
until the day of reckoning
that i am waiting for
she is pure white underneath
her brown bed-cloak
i am dead
blue
inside
she is so far from here
i am so far from everything
the churches throw open their doors
to court salesmen
my little consciousness spies
the end of seasons
and she stays the course
in the medium
that has been chosen
for waylaid angels
such as
Herself.

 

Thomas Riesner: “I was born in Leipzig,Germany in 1971 and I still live here today. Already in elementary school I often painted “abstract” instead of the given concrete drawing. I later retained this style or changed it to “abstract figuration ” I painted a lot at home, always without professional guidance. I didn’t have any specific role models. When I start a picture, I only have a certain idea, but often something completely different emerges. I would describe myself as an outsiderart artist.”

“Scott Taylor hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a writer and a musician, and an avid world traveler. His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications; his novels Chasing Your Tail and Screwed have been released with Silver Bow Publishing and his novellas Freak and Ernie and the Golden Egg are slated for inclusion in an upcoming anthology with Running Wild Press. He graduated from Cornell University and was a computer programmer in a past life.