Decades after earth failed to stand still

The rat is fat from eating chocolate.

The mummy is waiting for a vacant pyramid.

Men give birth to octopuses.

The sun is done nourishing the moon.

The day has been up all night long.

I am out of dreams.

Trees are bones.

Ashes are vascularized into the epidermis.

Vampires survive on cranberry juice.

Lovers escape I-95 to Neptune.

Arizona moves close to Tennessee.

I buy a bowl for my stomach.

Bodies are loans.

I sell three genes and lease a couple of chromosomes.

Tears climb to the forehead.

Fingers become toes.

Soul leaks from the ass.

What left of species march to the zoo.

Remains are still debating what happened,

hundred of years ago.

Khaled K.E.M. lives and works in New York. He writes poetry in English, French, and Arabic. His first Arabic poetry book, El Foraq, was published in Egypt. His poems have appeared in Poemata, The Banyan Review, The Write Launch, High Shelf, and Streetlight Magazine.

Twitter@KhaledKEM