Johnny Panic is never sleeping. 

Four-fingered sowed-clover pulse. So pulped to perdition.

I’m a busy man in the business of becoming.

Recently, it’s what I’ve been loving,

bow-legged & begging – listen!

Johnny Panic is never sleeping.

Anecdotally, Sister Truth & her half-brothers are very self-estranging.

Honestly, I’m purely slope-ward driven. (Come see)

this busy man in the business of becoming.

Christ-like, barely-out-of-bed, risen, stiffening,

hoping to freeze two thirds of my vision.

Johnny Panic is never sleeping.

Whistling in, a half-jagged laugh comes cracking.

Johnny Panic’s feeling the frisson

– such a busy man in the business of becoming.

This tender nerve I’m strangling

says nothing means nothing ‘til something’s up-given.

Johnny Panic is never sleeping, &   

I am a busy, busy man in this business of becoming