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I went by that place today, the one with the sign like truckdrivers mudflaps
It was boarded up, no more 'girls, girls, girls'
Where are all the hapless young men and hopeless old men now?
What new prison have they found?
I dreamed that I was playing eight-track tapes on my computer, r&b, and
hitting all the right keys without looking
I saw all the drawings you left for me.
The lady had to go to work. I shifted, and fell back to sleep.
I don't work anymore.
It was boarded up, no more 'girls, girls, girls'
Where are all the hapless young men and hopeless old men now?
What new prison have they found?
I dreamed that I was playing eight-track tapes on my computer, r&b, and
hitting all the right keys without looking
I saw all the drawings you left for me.
The lady had to go to work. I shifted, and fell back to sleep.
I don't work anymore.
Literature
My Other Name
My Other Name
Sometimes it is to set out forks
beside each plate,
or folding shirts first,
dryer hot in the A.M.
half-dark.
Less often, thirsty from cutting trees
back away from the roof edge,
gutters clean.
Today, the dishes of breakfast clean,
draining, I
angle each blind against the sun,
sit then in the small cool
room,
feet flat upon the morning
Literature
Insert Title _1
We, the petty,
we, the bourgeois,
poring over mirrors of reflected, collected verse,
only we could drown
in the shallow pools of our own desires.
Self-worth and efficacy distort, distend,
dilate.
Our longing sighs inflate
gauzy bladders, diaphanous,
and we fancy them substantial because they are large -
(We say much the same of our philanthropy.)
- seeking no synonyms,
though "bloated" comes to mind.
A pseudonym can shelter
the sodden intellect, emaciated,
denigrated by false modesties.
How quaint.
How deep, the brainy poet
who breathes his own despite
behind alabaster walls,
sherry perched atop whalebone fingers,
slosh
Literature
Eye Contact
Hold these thoughts
closely.
You are a
frienzed,
sex-depraved madman.
You are waiting
for the flowers
to murder you.
You are drugged up
on mental chemicals.
You are lonely.
You are every dark secret
and
every act of kindness.
You are nothing
(important).
But do not believe for a second
that you are a ghost,
drunk on freedom.
The woman with the stroller
sees you.
The man rubbing his glasses
with his mouth half open
sees you.
The child
and the white-knuckled toy
see you,
and watch as if
the whole world were new
and a man who could pass through
walls and skin
was something special
and worth attention.
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Excellent work, Sir. Sorry to hear about the seizures; that truly sucks doorknobs.