Monthly Archives: February 2015
“Kierkegaard Does Sun”
I just heard it asked, Would you rather be a thermometer or a thermostat in a social situation, a thermometer gauges the temperature and a thermostat sets it. I thought about it, and then remembered that I despise social situations in the first place. Socializing should obviate energy, cathexis and metamorphosis, but the term “situation” […]
“The Blood’s Not Oil”
I am composed of visions, Stringed Back to a magistrate And called home whereupon I’d Leave my bodily form, . So in instances of faculties Being summoned to a pinnacle, Beaches of intensity and Quagmires of humid lust, . There’s a certain color That stays me, A searer.
“Banked Longitudes”
The school has played mate with me, And now it’s playing dead, It’s part of its rules of sophistication, . The hallways are bare, Classrooms all but boarded up, . And under miles of frozen clouds One more dust mite Collects by the curb, Any curb . And I Stand here noticing, Glancing, To uncover […]
“Confederate Flags”
When life is weird for others around you, but you don’t feel it, it makes you have weird dreams. Well, life is weird for other around me, and I had weird dreams. I dreamed I was moved to Indiana when I was six, from a happy place. The total lack of movability on these big […]
“Toggling”
In music, I exist as a circle, Not as a knife, fighting, . And if life begs of me activity, But denounces me for too much, And there’s no respite under the peach tree, . Then when dinner comes, That will be looking into the eyes, That will be the end of disarmament, The shapeless […]
“I Stare at You for 17 Seconds”
Alone, I’ve forgotten Of . Whatever anyway, As people refuse my presence. . It’s my attempt to re-mend, I’m Like a doll with patches, Walking A dog that isn’t there Down . The street In Front of the Platoon of houses.
“I Missed the Bus or the Bus Missed Me”
She Gives me The change from the bus stop Until it leaves my head, . Life Existing As A dancefloor With many hobgoblins Not dressed but wearing.
“The Maestro”
Driven Into seduction of figurines By a divine light, . The maestro steps forth With baton in hand . Like cowherd Ready to raze so many fields Of their despondent atavism, . Trumpets, trombones, clarinets and tubas, Infants In slots, TV minstrels, . Self-conscious With jackets in lockers, Denizens of cocaine and heroin alleys.
“Upon Stairs, Hand on Face”
A foggy sepulchre Stands shyly, . Not knowing her own beauty, The evening Fertile with the Fluorescent light’s Vibrations, matrimony . Of whim benefitting full, Complacent . In her breast and womb Knowing new stars.
“Wreaths”
In his General course of things, . A young man Might look up and need just A little light, . For no darker Is his Form . Of judgment, and in His mind . Lie wreaths Of the splendor, lie That in whose absence You might be inclined to complain.