Dim late night lighting with creeping hunger that rumbles and claws at the throat, reddens the eyes, draws a tired water from them. Move along while sitting still. Get out of your own head for a few pages at least. The time was dedicated fumbling for lost keys to the point of exhaustion, and at that point, not a second sooner, they fell out of the sky into his open palm. Providence will always have its way. God is both male and female. I’m hardly any of it.
A cinder is food for some; you should see it! Spectacles improve upon impaired vision and give hope to the weakened lungs. Brace for impact, breach in the hull, prepare for a very real war. Good honest hard working human beings hide behind blind nationalism and become eaten by cicadas. Learn your value then, of yourself, before what’s worse happens to you, they simple you down to below your worth and size, and put stripes on you and a jingle in your head.
They admit that compact discs are not so eternal after all – the sun or the cold can make them feebly unusable like used up vinyl and twisted, pulled out tape. On TV they told him, we know you did it, and your DNA will show up under her nails, so don’t leave town. We’ll be back for you. Panicked young man with a blown cover now bidding his time in the most scrambled mess he can think to wreck up to the delight of the housemates. Running to freedom in a zigzag.
Many small things were left behind for us and to our benefit – cleaning supplies, tools, and cereal in the cabinet. Don’t feel so bad, she said, an unemployment check is merely an act of you collecting back some of your own money you earned a while back. The irony, all be it, is that you could work six months and be laid off and collect the same amount as the next guy being laid off after ten years. I advanced like a man rich with time, cashed those figures, and continued to unpack.
man you contemplate
stabbing at snakes
like it’s a good idea
dig a fine grave
for yourself
early on
they’ll pull your
teeth before
they’re licensed
I can’t believe
watching what I
see having come here
these people falling
out of the building
that day
like out of a plane
my own tears
would drop
some sorrow for
them and their
terror before it
would be construed
terror-ism
put a cap on it
by flattening
the whole thing
city in dusty
holocaust
night falls and
newscasters have
their triumph
how can we
ruin things more
by remembering
them wrong?
our jocks and
dumb downs would
grow up in
larger and
more embarrassing
numbers
and frighten
yet more
trodden minorities
out of this
soon to be
police state
not enough tissue paper
to blow your nose in
blow it in the wind then
you’re speaking for
a whole community
of personalities
within your very self
diversity of character
poised to snap shots
of the beloved bookshelf
wishing he was really
as smart as the
photo projected
a 19th century sitting
by candle light
reading for the first time
Notes from Underground
by Dostoevsky
and the sky
would open up red
and clarify butter
why not become
a better reader if
it’s in
your power?
It’s not only in what you retain, but what you create, and if without bombastic ego, you can let it flow through you and not attach yourself, the spec of yourself from outer space so over concerned with all the issues and if you amount up or down or what. If you can let go of children’s building blocks, let them fall – will the suffering resound as terrible as these past years?
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