Greyscale memories black & white & red all over

bedsheets stained by bloody nails, the willing

victim autopsied by three nails & a spear, lying on

her back, putting up a front, all lies come back

‘round yon’ virgin mother & childbirth, virgin birth

& virgin sacrifice, surgeon with a kitchen knife;

christmas lights & christmas stars illuminate Grey

blades & thigh scars never fade, father of the

decade, promises right & left at the altar ego death

bed springs a phoenix from the Grey ash of a

thousand cigarettes, blowing Grey smoke, stress

chain smoking & stressing weakest links til chains

are broken links redirecting home is where the

heart is in a cage of bone, heart of gold, chest of

opal, Grey chest binder keeps him hopeful, open

heart & open mind & open casket baptism in a hair

salon with conditioner & holy water, wholly

underwater, under the condition of holy love

conditional, conditioned to be mint condition silver

coins turned Grey, silver medal accolade, coin flip

pray for heads, mint chip rocky road & rocky roads

ahead, road head & tailgating headlights & dirt

roads, head under waterboarding baptismal font,

12-point times new roman single spaced, new

romantic ends to single times, 12-dimensional

spacetime, pointing to space, romantics knew:

timing is key to the city of rome falls in a day,

hopeful romantics falling in love in a day & by

nightfall wishing on falling stars above to fall in

love under Grey moonlight spooning & fingering &

wrapped around her finger a Grey pinky ring, pinky

promising to never lift a finger, kisses linger & lips

wander, night of wonder, nighttime wandering,

knight in shining Grey armoring, night of birth, rite

of birth, rite of passage, passing blunts & passing

time & passing classes, passing in bathrooms,

passing out in bathroom stalls, hiding from

reflections in passing mirrors, self-reflections,

mirror selfies & self-portraits of dorian Greyscale

nude portraits of unrecognizable changes with the

passage of time, this too shall pass & in time we

two shall pass & we shall pass the time & pass

along our Greyscale tales until our hairs turn Grey;