Doctor Theaters' Kiss By Alex S. Johnson

Having spun the eyes of

carnival

creation 

into

a tapestry of black silk cinema 

Mistress Spider squatted 

philosophically over

The navel of herstory 

With a winedash pour of

self-sufficiency

Scattered glitter dialectics to 

the four corners 

Stretched the sun's skin and

fashioned a 

Drum from it to

Procreate polyrhythms that 

rival tabla dialogues 

Rat rat tat machine gun

blistering blast beats of 

black metal

Shapeshifting to raven stretched her

guillotine wings over the

giggling quantum foam 

As coyote chuckled once more to

see humanity dash itself to

bits of pottery shards over 

shallow ideals and 

hollow men

Doctor Theater hovers at the door

of the final floorshow 

Tickets please. 

Alex S. Johnson is the acclaimed author of Final Destination: Wipeout, Jason X: Death Moon, Bad Sunset, The Doom Hippies and Bizarrely Depared. His poetry has appeared in numerous venues including 13 Mynah Birds, Misfits, Unlikely Stories, Black Noise, and much more. John Shirley, screenwriter of the cult classic horror film The Crow starring Brandon Lee, wrote of his forthcoming dark poetry collection Thunderstruck, "Alex S. Johnson is the Baudelaire of our time; the poet of the underground." Among the honors he's received are the acquisition of Skull Vinyl and The Doom Hippies by the Widener Library at Harvard University. Johnson's upcoming works include Blood Red Romance: A Dark Poetry Collection with Alea Celeste Williams. He lives in Carmichael, California with his family.