Shh…
I think the Ford’s on fire
parked out on the open field
behind the Jones’ house.
Let’s watch and hope that it explodes
just like our favorite T.V. Shows
but no-one will get hurt,
that’s how it works.
Or at least, so I was told…
Shh…
I think the Ford’s on fire
parked out on the open field
behind the Jones’ house.
Let’s watch and hope that it explodes
just like our favorite T.V. Shows
but no-one will get hurt,
that’s how it works.
Or at least, so I was told…
they’ve forced me unplugged
and removed my pen from my hand
so i sit emasculated in what
they claim is class all day
weekend long wishing for my
fingers to type something
to be sent into the nether
for your eyes to read because
ive forgotten how to bleed ink
into the canvas that doesn’t
glow with power
carelessly rubbed eye,
mexican lunch forgotten,
capciacin is pain.
a drift of cherry blossoms
flits across the street
like a school of fish
in a cement sea.
Darkness
as best defined by someone who has never experienced true darkness,
is never quite as
bleak
as it ought to be.
Darkness as witnessed first-hand
is
terrifying.
Why, I shudder to think
what some may do when
faced
with it.
Bright strands of light
Piercing through the window
Warm against my skin
the days have turned into weeks
and still the call hasn’t come,
leaving us in limbo
with only unanswered questions
of who, where, when, how,
why won’t this change!
and so the waiting
turns into pacing,
and the pacing
turns into gnawing,
all of which i hide from you
putting on a strong face,
and never realizing that
you don’t need my strength,
only my trust.
It was evening when I built the fire
Kindled in twilight
Night dragging on a veil of shadows
Before morning rays shone through
Afternoon stretched its course
And with it came evening again
Where a fresh log and heavy exhale
Sprung forth smoldering embers
A Phoenix reignited to life
Flames licking at the cedar
sometimes i talk
only to fill the void,
lengthening with every moment
that a word is not said,
engulfing me
engulfing you
engulfing everyone,
swallowing us whole
and spitting us out
into a sea of awkwardness.
i was outside on the porch
taking in the sky with clear
eyes,
she comes out in my shirt
saying “pretty,
pretty boy”
and i go inside with
unfocused eyes
and stare at the broken
oven–and you will call me
after that,
and i will think i
know what you want,
and i will make a song about it,
and i will write about it,
and i will soon disappear.
in the electric air of
this early summer evening we
speak of what
will come to pass
while you’re away
and
wind chimes ring
hollow and low
filling the spaces
between our sad words
which we mask with laughter
in vain.
Oh, what sweet peace of mind
to know that some of your friends
are in their beds, safely and soundly
sleeping.
The clouds are overcast
A moist, sweet wind is blowing
Will it rain today?
I SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
IN PARIS OR FRANCE
IN A MAGICAL WONDERLAND
OR IN MY CAR
YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYE
AND TELL ME WE ARE ALONE
AND MY HEART ACCELERATES
AWARE OF THE SCIENCE BEHIND
RAINBOWS.
thoughts and theories
not of truth but concepts
you say you can say
but dont know how to say them
thoughts without words
do you think them?
It was a warm, clear morning.
I promise you that.
And the road was oh-so-nice
to drive over. Straight there.
Straight back. One donut shop
in between.
And the cargo delivered safely
And his mother notified.
And it was a warm, clear morning.
I promise you that.
Curling delicately along lines traced
By fingers
Burning sensations underneath skin
Less like satin but a breath
Trembling each hair
A whisper tickling inside ears
Where thought and touch coalesce
Into a fleeting acuity of godliness
Balling fists in lungs
An alien air that feels too innate
Incinerated by its detection
Clenching tightly to grasp
What only slips through sooner
i know an old puppy who swallowed a guy
i dont know why he swallowed a guy
perhaps the humane society will come
and take him away and put him to sleep
through some sadly not altogether very
humane means such as a shot through
the leg that they claim is pain free but really
just paralyzes the puppy before the pain
sets in and causes early rigor mortis
but thats just a thought i dont know much
about what happens to old puppies who
swallow folks
flat paper edges on
paper cut fingers from
pulp of evergreen
seems oddly white under
my fingers
elaborate preparations,
ritual like gone through,
all for the purpose
of delaying the inevitable,
perpetuating the magic,
that is a Saturday Morning
lest it disappear into the mourning
of work saved up all week long.
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