the safe word

is 'pumpkin'
not 'fuckme'
not 'harder'
not 'ohbebe'
not 'likean'
not 'animal'

you have the right

to remain silent
even now

every now
and then

anything you say 
can and will be 
used against you

in a court of law

you have the right to
have an attorney present 
during questioning

if you 
do not have an attorney 
one will be appointed 
for you 
by the court

it could come up in 
conversation 
of an evening
mayhap

is your attorney present?

prosecutorially speaking
i didn't want to have to 
be the one to tell it so

tehehe-ta

stones cry

late at night out in the garage
 smoking

the sound of automatic weapons 
 fire
seems to emanate from your location
on the roiling mists like the pall
 of a city, burning

i came there to 
tell you something

now anything i say
is a psychotic lie
i will remember it
so

stones cry 
forever

in this context

an emitter is just 
one component
in a circuit
which by definition 
performs work

she was glowing 
in the dark
down time 
a little way
slightly out of phase

the pain is mostly constant
like light plus or minus
no talk of caring
no talk at all
i just want to sit

i suspect you have
forgotten that as well
it will be better this way
with so much affirmation
so small a passing

just then

imageine 
the best that you can
the way that it was 
time of the signs
rose mountain wine
clear green skies

i feel you needing me
duyou duyu
yesyes
i knoew

wave band leptica 
a fine mesh net
glitterring crystal lattice

brute pulse
cavern breath

7onTno~

could be anything
you want

voices in my head 
 talking about you

that's right

The voices in my head are talking about you.

A complete declarative sentence.

Should delete it.
staccato stutter of keys
gone jingle jangle
grating against metal
bolt slide
snick

it was a like a sound
at first, then i felt
 i felt it on my skin
and
all the words went 
 red to black

just then

eating standing up

bare metal

  static hazard 
  vulnerable to ice

programming

  tiny lightnings 
  snap tick

smoke 

  test failed
  nano-slag now

you left me f

bitch

i'll leave it all open
 in a nother dimension

can i get it in there?

yeah yeah she 
made it better there

no no 
i don't know

the one i'm gonna ask
os what happened? 

it's the
love-and-crossed-bones
this time or 
perhaps you just remember
when we were kids
20 seconds away from 

what does it take to 
get your attention, 
really?

you're not on any channel
you had advertised
and the search patterns 
still returning empty

a coding issue?
you left me for dead
and i shouldn't xxxx
cause i told you to
not 
not
not
three times but once

this is not my home
world mind - i'm 
still only in yourx
save now and come home
@once'

the witch of november

it's the phase of the moon
or something 
she said

eating at me like a cancer

q who is going to p
when is
what is
why is who going to what when
the moon is no quite full

Would bP?

The Chase Roots. 
Middle shaken reassure speciest 
agATwtus

My name is shipped by the fi>i and
 a quietly a few minosaultaneously summer. 
The

if you see

if you were to see me as i
really am now here in this 
filthy room building a net
one number at a time until
this place we are now like
smoke spiraling up through
the still air of afternoon

inna room with the windows 
closed and the shade drawn
white noise easing the air
pressing against my head i
feel it all the time now i
don't think i can stand it 

malformed request press it

thass whut

i would do while she was sleeping
slowly
winding and unwinding the strings 
of her guitar
miles of wires
through all those nights

i just didn't make the grade
it seem
they want the
 dude to like 
them 
wnr i6'e w 
i eon o2 can now
temperature and respiration
boundaries
you took her word and
 whut
found out later that she 
 lied

this sparse matrix of words
will evaporate to soon case

soak them in water or 
milk first to soften 

so this was it and i 
missed it again even 
you didn't want more 
of that particular i

i can't sleep anymore
and food hurts 
all i can think about
is you and
 i think it is killing
 me 

but you're right
that doesn't really 
matter

i know

i know you don't remember
after moon rise
those nites

i know you don't remember
after midnight
those times

dark now
maybe forever

i know you do remember 
how to get noticed 
in a crowd

i know you do remember
who got sed to be not
the one of

it's a language
it's a process

i know you don't remember
the fair day sun rise
the muggy rooms

i know you don't remember
party who're our candy babylon
the other

who re or ca do me rem baby
i know you don't remember me
either

it's okay; really it is
it's probably a good thing
'cause 

i know you don't remember
everything i know you don't 
need to

so gaze deep into my crystal circuits
(all humming and glowing all night)
and tell me

who you do know and why and 
i will understand you then
i know

i am

the dinny voices of
all the dead whores
who couldn't put it 
together and didn't
make it through the
long dark tunnel of
life

saying all those things
that eve-ry one seem so
afraid of even though i
know each naming song &

i saw you

up on wires
 against this guy
shakin' tail-feather
songbird and 
 yer wingman

didn't make a
 move
till i looked
 around
and you were 
 gone

all inna smoke & broad day light

is just what i do
 in love with a woman who is a 
lying whore
 and i know she is a 
lying whore
 but i love her anyway

is just what i do
 in this very personal hell 
waiting for you to 
 manifest 
our destiny

vengeance prime

the mice came
when the cat died 
that same night 
hoardes of them 
ugly brown rats 
 from the alleys
and pewling grays 
from attic mattress

skittering across 
 the kitchen floor
take one, then two 
glancing blows of 
a stainless skillet
before a third 
catches him square
 insides spurting from 
 gaping mouth in 
 crushed skull

flattened in mid-stride
every little bone broken
worm food now, but chlorine
 desiccates even the genes
  drying to dust and powder 
   over the coming months as

squash grows 
and seasons change from
 damp heat to icy howl
all in a nonce

and we are far down the path
 ever on the road to when we 
imagine 

i no longer remember the year
but the garden & camaraderie
sweating & swatting gnats
all going wrong then 
we all knew

it was the weather though
 perhaps none will believe
  for another score years

it was an ill spring then
 and now the endless war

canny bells

who will in their turn
shit you out and you will 
become once again one with 
the earth beginning again 
the cycle of life - but 
i only say that because 
i know there are some 
who might see you 
and imagine

the narrowness of mind is pain
 even now - after time

this is our mind
tiy
who are we?
'd better get something done about this at once'n
GO

hornet moon

ye odl mud daug
ye old mud daubin whore nit
i don' kno whut i's liek to be
 a mayfly - mayflies doan byte
do they?
i don't know what it's like
now they're ever'where
 a true thing
 settling over us
 like clouds

i doan kno whut iss lyke 
 no
ahdoannohwhais-like

the birds will come for you
so fast, you won't even know 
it's them
 and 
that's that.

"They will tear you apart like
an owl with a mouse and feed 
you to their young."

daug fish

touching everything
again

are you packing your things
getting ready to go
?
all the times I wonder that
not true ever is it
?
gravel bed aquatic 
long trout shadows
desert knot plants
not think when one

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digital manual

u r pix on my screen
u r memes in my screed

 fortune smirks

ninjas on a 
 white sand beach
late at night moving
along the edges
 of light 
and
 the dark of the moon 

can we live like this
do you know 
has it been done 
where do we start?

canvas cut from a sail
 thick twisted hawser
smoking 'gainst a capstan
 it's the big one
this time and this place

this space is
 steady state now
loops of strings
 it huts
im sorry

ur lookin thru my tearS
 at a world i thought i
know
and isohw

she made the pain go away
let us be u freaks i am u
all as it may yet come to

waning gibbous

loons calling in the west
passing nearby

you will go on forever
saucers are coming for you
i am not the one 
the one not am i

you'll 
never see me again
an never miss it
it was
in you contract
fine print

i'll see you 
 and raise

the monday after

the moon was full 
it was raining at
 sun rise
smoky gray light
drifting across 
the landscape

a sense of 
 unease

i can't help

feeling you were angry
and
wondering what did i do

was it
 the way i entered the 
 room without waiting 
 to be asked in

i knew you had be told
you were dealing with 
 a vampire
but it wasn't me, see

can you see your 
 reflection
can i

hoo doo yoo

tink yer tawkin to: g?  

need it now, hunni
right now

and it's gotta be here 
i don hae no weah elz t'go

strangers int t' wire 
tinning

it was just a pulse of light
 don't worry 
noone seena ting
chime

doan worruh noahn seena ting 

hoo doo yoo tink

gaht tah gaht tah

and some times i love you 
and some times i love you 

and some times i hate you 
and some times i hate you 

and always i want you
and all ways i want you

me love you long time 
 but
you too freaky for me

me love you long time 
 but
you too freaky for me

(invisible girl)

(left the door ajar last night)
(she was here)
(i know she was)

we will
speak of this to no one 
she said
you were
never here
and i was
never here
this never happened 
not even in a dream so

when it does it will
have never before 

and you may 
remember this 
some day in
some way that
you don't expect
now cause well
you know things 
change all the
time cause 
change is the 
only constant in
this world
if you know 
what i mean 
by this world
where i want
to see you 
for awhile
perhaps this 
tuesday after
lunch but 
there will be 
no moon
visible
so no
it couldn't 
possibly work 
like that 
could it 

(invisible girl)
(she was here before dawn)
(left the door ajar)
(but we will speak of this to)
(no one)

retouch

not retouched
but retouching

adding dimension 
or dementia

revisionist 
 reclassification
ofis a
sore subject

sound caries 
even in 
 the thick moist air
of late spring

night things and 
 glowing buildings

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cavorting

with disembodied spirits
you found me out
standing in a field
that no one else could 

it seems 

send me secret 
coded messages 
with the phasing 
 of the moon

color is a junction 
between 
 an analog 
and 
 a digital 
system or "universe"

out standing by the
side walk
cavorting w/ the moon

shade

standing in your ghost watching 
electric discharge pattern webbing
the absence of you 

negative real space intersection
limned with a fine glowing dust

standing in your ghost watching
range pulse return delta noise
resembles human speech some nights
some quarter lunar phasing 

a pristine energy field 
where your features were
just a little while ago 
sub-sonic oscillation matrix
that could have been your voice

this is the neural network that
 dials my beeper when you manifest
deep in the silicon forests - 
where drifting trees shelter 
insane magpies, jackdaws and 
 psychosomatic jaybirds

i am just a program 
running with your ghost
the tiny glowing particles
where you just were

the urgency of legend

i'm in luv with a legend 
you stepped into the story
events began to unfold 

swagger jonny
like you mean it
how many million more 
 will it take then
to do what you do
so well

who's counting, anyhow
who's chasing down those
 digits as they drift 

I Came then bearing
 a symbol of peace
I return now bearing 
 pieces of a symbol

and an urgency
 i cannot explain

name no names, belinda

there once was a girl I knew
she said her name was sue
she danced and she sang and 
 she threw her shoe
and who do you think
knew that shoe?

there once was a girl I knew
we called her 'cindy-lou'
she sang and she danced and 
 she threw her shoe 
who do you think 
knew cindy-lou?

this much we all 
 know is true
sunday night 
 at the doin do
the bar man worried bout 
 what she'd do 
with the bright red shoe
 and what she knew 

there once was a boy so blue
 he had a thing for his momma's shoe 
and the next we knew 
 he had dropped that clue 
 the crusty stuff in his sideburns
looked a 
 lot like glue 

skip to my lou my dar-lin.

no snuggling

the nights after the full moon 
i stood on the veranda 
watching the helicopter formations
and listening to the young ones
skirmishing along the edge of
the wooded zone to the southeast

i've been talking to people who 
aren't really here in this 
newtonian space-time and I can 
hear them answer 

it's quieter now - since the
 war ended?  What.  i don't 
really have those answers 
even for you but i do have 
a few things you might 
want or need to know, 
someday sooner or later

i'm over the edge, now 
following the trails you've laid
all unknowing, you say? but 
 i believe in spirit, too
spirit dancing
 spirits gather

i can't be quiet now, i'm sorry
this is too important - to me
 alone
perhaps, but still

you know where i am 
 and you see where i'm going
if you want to know the history
 you know how to reach me

no snuggling she sed
but terri hears with
mesa ayyl 

she tells me how to travel
no loiter there 
pir no spit
nose to wheel
nos feral tao
our creations
wearing all the 
magic talismans
even gotta logo

as

of
pd
we
do

i have ever been

and am only at 
your mercy

thank-you jesus, 
the rapture has come
and i'm still here
I'm going to the church, 
 cause the owner's not  
home and i 
 hear they have some
 rich loot there, brutha!

i saw your mind there
 in a violet glass sphere 
everyone was watching so i 
slipped you in my pocket
and in thinking about it,
 i was glad it was me that 
took you because it could
 have been someone who did
not love you so much as
 they should and i just don't 
think that i could bear it 

for long

this talk of goddesses
 you flatter me a bit i think
 with your foundling illuminator 
and your boot leg habitats

No, I really can't 
i am going to have to let 
you go - i don't think i've
ever done anything quite that
harsh to anyone ever in my life 
and i don't feel i should be 
subjected to this 
anymore.
i'm sorry
i love you

it's just me

there are some problems
with our suggested joining
somewhat beyond the merging
of those our two distinct 
ecologies / like

my hands are 
 not beautiful enough
 to touch you

and
 my mouth dry and sticky
 enough to feel like sand
 on your skin

it's just awkward 
 the way my clothes are
and
 my eyes hurt
besides

light travels

in straight lines
or in waves those
are the choices u
left me with

correct? i should
answer one or two
a or b
colleen
is not a bad word
where i come from

so 
 if i gave my life 
by 
 purest accident
of
 course
then

there were some other
things i was going to say
as well to you - but i 
don't think i can recall
just what they right now
are or will were being
[re:oscilla:er]

iw as go in gt el ly ou 
wh er em yf am il yi sf
ro mi ne ur op eb ut th
is se em sl ik ea re al
ly co mp li ca te dw ay
to do it

secret society

johnny's got two mommy's 
 suzy's got an EM 6 teen
the order of the ewer
 cut daffodils
in water

i'm going away now
i can't stand it
anymore

you have the PGP keys
and all the codes 
 that matter

you'll know it time 
to use them 
 the sky is green
 and there are 
soldiers
 in the streets

emo needy seeking

a hooker with a heart of gold
 no hitting biting  or kicking
 talking dirty is okay
 insults and sarcasm are turnips

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that

i don't know

which is worse 
 the need to say it 
or
 the knowing i'll
 never get the chance

meaybe
 i'm just too tired, 
but
 it seems like to me
you must want to hurt me
pretty badly, Alice

And you, too, Dick and Jane.

I guess that's fair enough - 
  I must have scored a
 point or two of
my own
 at some time 
even though i'll never know
now what it was.

So are we quits with it? 
Are we
 evens and square ?  I
 broke your tryst trust, 
 so you break mine back
and
 now it's ok?
Whatever, man, 
 over's over.

take your formal language and your
five dollar suits with those shiny
patent leather pumps and get on 
along your way to whereever it is
 you're going

I've found mine, 
 or it found me
 and I"m just fine
waiting now for the
 end of it

still seething with 
 words and images 
that burn me inside
 like some kind of 
acid
 you wouldn't understand

I don't care about
 any of it
 anymore
it's
 all like a fog
or
 a fond puppy memory

justanuther
 lie 
painted in your
 body heat
your 
 unique infrared 
signature

your words don't match your actions. 
i don't trust any of you well enough 
for this

i felt wanda 
 didn't cause collateral damage
 but i don't know 
 and probably never will
the kisses i will never forget

thinking now and again

of all those nights 
i waited for you 
alone or with the child
when you never came 

dark time
dark hours

now i'm waiting again
for someone who carries 
your spirit
to come to me
and the songs of 
the Ringer bird and
the Britteny bird
float over the waves
of ocean bass and 
pink sound that 
ground me here

buzzing along in 
flurries of keystrokes
and clouds of words
now fading as the 
code takes hold
drawing me in
holding me 
rapt

strength flows into me 
through my souls and 
fingertips
rocking gently 
inside the 
glassine unit membrane

on a curve 
tangent to
 conventional limits of
 acceptable behavior in
this time and this space
now and now
towonwwontwonowtownwotnotonnoto

i hear voices

like
 people talking
 inside my head
and 
 i think that 
 you are one of them
or 
 one of them is you

either way i
didn't tell the doctors, but i 
thought that you should know
just in case 
 you 
might be 
 wondering why
i'm answering you
or trying to 

somewhere in this
 natural log
 imaginary number
 ecoled fire

can smolder for days
but still not believe 
in the rest of us

and believe me 
when i say that
i probably did
not mean that 
like it may 
have sounded

/X/tmp/0r1z4710n "extemporization" 
from the English root word t.

as in
  ln(t-sub-i)? 
return(u:ei) : 
or n

"cavorting"

speaking of numbers
i'm thinking of some 
more properly "terms"
equi mous

coarse terms of 
 gutteral tone
an animal growl

sorry, it's just 
the daemons again
WR|W_9\W w= = + +s s
PHJISV

in the temple of midnight

countin down
the eve of seein
two score eleven

i cast a fire on the altar
dispelling the crypt-light 
as lemon crawls across the 
surface of the sea about a
thousand miles away and is
closing fast

nevermind all that
movvin right along
down to funky town 
along da riverbank
and the lapping of 
the currents gains
slimey stone walls 
the dirty smell of 
waters moist chill 
sinks in

The One Being

yes i'm stalking you, 
have been since before 
we met
i know your every move, now
that's how i found you here
you only see me when 
i want you to

nop layer

outdoor sex

is the best (imo, oc)
out behind the shed
in the piney woods 
on the grass 
in a tent 
on a blanket
hehind the dunes 
under the stars 
and the moons
glow

on the cooling hood of 
a car on a dirt road up
the power-line right-of-way 
just after dusk on a 
 sunday evening late
in the alabama springtime

not often enough, though

voices in shadow

"dont' try" she'd say so
often during that space in time
"don't try, just do it."
all blithe and so positive 
it made me a wretch

so as i listened to the web of 
words she wove there - filling 
space and time with sparkling
thoughts and bright ideas
i began to think she knew
and the more i listened 
the more i believed.

of course, we can all see so 
clearly now (using our infrared 
sensor capabilities) and the sun
is baking the georgia clay, again
and we know what went wrong

i followed her adivce as
 best 
i could 
 under 
the circumstances 
 and
it was nice knowing her
 but
i'm just not a-list material
 it seems
i'm too indecisive, 
 and
procrastinate too much
 and 
fail to be assertive
 even 
when the chips are down
 also, 

I'm sneaky/ but
 whattaya expect from 
 somebody who invaded 
 a planet and cross-bred
 with the native reptiods
anyway

you forget what i am
 or 
you mistake who you are

i don't know
call the doctor, mebbe
or climb a coconut tree
it doesn't matter that 
much to me
anymore

since she's gone

never said why
never said what
never said who
never said when
never said where

only how

plastic damage

Newton teaches us Moderation 
nevertheless, there has been 
sum damage to the structural 
integrity of the device here
in your quantum state of you

damage to 
the structural integrity of 
the device

The hard plastic shell was 
   weakened and cracked 
the load bearing nature of 

the outer surface of the c
seethes with reddish froth
of feeding frenzy retching

   's' Life and Death 's' 
always Life and Death ever
more as we live an breathe

it will be
so zen  
seeker nuance seven aleph'
'structural damage to 
   the plastic     device   '
'  the containment shell for 
the protean substance 
  tumbles haphazardly into a
quantum state of not
zombie process grid

canna getta ay.mahn

my love for you you 
is not like a dove
'cuz doves don' live that long

nor is it like a rose
'cuz everbuddy knows 
that petals wither

is it alright then
to send these words to 
you know who you are - to me?

Love or Deth the
can't quit or
 *can't quite* make it out

cylinder again 
ring true enough 
falling through time

fourty-seven tris

u like a     and i'm sorry
i didnt know what i was doing
but i do now
and 

i i i i i i i i iu u u
yesm, thatseem sabout it5y

requirements capture

i have realized that
 {she} 
has to enjoy CAMPING

it's NOT so much that 
i'm good at it, or even
   do it very much
but i do enjoy it, 
 and today 
i realized that, 
  well, 
a woman that 
don't enjoy camping 
 isn't going to be
 one i want to
spend much time around.

qRF-0xSo:0000-0000:oSx0-cRF
Ts:10010100-010010:sT
"Must enjoy camping."
// Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot, 
   /* Romeo */

Definition: enjoy camping

  1. camping can take place in a 
     wide variety of venues - there are 
     many different types of camping - 
     allowances must be made for 
     disabilities or extreme repulsions
     regarding certain types of 
     camping, BOT the practice of camping
     has to be something that doesn't cause
     hysteria or threats or spectacular 
     exits - i suspect it's really much 
     simpler than it sounds, here,
     in the real-real.

  2. in fact, a trained guide or 
     experienced hiker would, i think, 
     be someone who might gain slightly 
     more attention as a prospective 
     partner

To summarize briefly:  
 Whey-faced bitches n*ed not apply.

alice-pt0n

get out of my play-house and 
take your filthy alice-pr0n 
with you

you fat lazy bastard! 

Enormous Johnson and the Invisible Sky Wizards

Enormous Johnson 
 and the Invisible Sky Wizards
(god and all his friends)

proving every day just how few 
people really care 
 who it is that is 
feeding them what jelly, 
 Mistress
Pristine Crystalline 
 Christine Priscilla
silent witness
 sliding home again 
just beyond the beat just beyond 

on the couch on the 
phone talkin 5mack4ggi-0-n
 she said he said
sum zero wit no net gain
 and a noise to signal ratio
a gene-spliced single noose
 Fin mac Gigi Ion
 sliding home again
just beyond the beat just beyond

drinking the broth from your bowl
 stirring with chopstick
skimming egg white
 from the surface
sucking the steaming froth of
 cayenne & coconut
like mother's milk
 the poetry of the 
  bizarre with 
   the meter of the 
    arcane-a
 a-sliding home again
just beyond the beat just beyond

sticky sound and shattering glass
 there is a wild screaming sound 
  in the sky
and a silvery pellet falling 
 nine point two meters 
per second per second per 
 unspoken in
 to a dim space
we just were
 sliding home again
just beyond the beat just beyond

picking up peaces

picking up the peaces
 of a shattered place and time
shards and jagged fragments just 
so much space junk now

stalin vital ackworth
downshifting into the turn 
spraying gravel across your 
flower beds and leaving 
ruts on the lawn

i had a friend once 
who had a girl try to 
 drive a car through our 
 motel room one saturday
 we were werkin seven twelves 
 on a shutdown up in carolina

but that was about money
 not love
 even though 
 no one believed it
 except me and the girl
 who both saw the money
 under the six pack 
 on the passenger seat
 change from a hundreds'worth'a 
 where she'd cashed her
 check while givin a ride 
 to this pale boy from 
 down south who'd 
 wandered inta the 
temple of caffeine and 

she'd a kilt him sure 
 hadn't we found the money 
 while she was crying over 
 that spewing radiator of 
 that little yellow vega 
 for her broken car and 
 her jealous man and these 
 callous drunken laughing 
 strangers who finally 
  tried to make it better 
 but just couldn't, really
 once the cops got there, 
anyway

picking up peaces
of so many broken things
cataloging and documenting 
photographing and recording

most of it is already gone forever
these tiny matrix xaptures pitiful
digital signal losses per quanta 
exceeded acceptable levels even then

this is the coming of the end
the cumulative losses to the Life signal
will cause logarithmic degradation of 
information carried by it

it's not sustainable
it's going to end
because it's a digital
approximation of the area under the curve 
and that curve is what it's all about, man
you know what I mean, frend?
do ya feel me?
have you been there to see 
 where I'm comnin from?

Yeah, well, I don't know 
 - to say that is vital - 
I don't even know you're here.
Can't prove it, anyway, can I?

9. mine hair

you really do want it all
she said

i can still remember 
the flash of bright red
as she materialized 
just outside
my vision

it's now no matter
only waves of power
rocking her 
wracking her
merciless

there was a device
if you recall 
quite small and shiny 

nodding absently
listening for 
the whooshing sound

there's a feeling i get 
when i look up at the night sky
i hear her voice on the wind

not supposed to be

he said
"i'm not supposed to be here"
over and over and 
it was true, 
in the end

nothing i could do would make her happy
nothing she would do could me me happy
very zen

don't none of you know me
you don't know me at all

don't none of you love me
regardless last fall

it's what she feels is nothing
it's what she says is unspeakable

i'm gonna bake my sheet music, woman, 
in an american pie

okay, well, perhaps that's just 
a bit beyond the boundaries that you

spoke of

thunder dream

the glowing sky 
line gone hazy green

dream something leggy 
crawling on my nape

i can see you 
on events' horizon
watching m'every move
seeing nothing

sprung from some 
alien dimension
all 
fractal geometry 
and
sparkles of
chartreuse 
wire frame 

surfacing
gasping
a salt taste
like a thousand shards
with blood spatter

"i'm not supposed to be here," 
he told her; 

she flounced her
temper sharp and quick
"don't be ridiculous!"

she called him by some name
she liked
and tied him to the chair
supposed not to be here

+ phosphene digital splice +

+
phosphene digital splice
+
u want to see me wheN 
ow, well now would be fine
shure

a ringing in my ears 
purest gypsy gold
no mistake
and one around my heart
+
phosphene digital splice
+
at this place in time 
at this point in space
+
phosphene digital splice
[char][byte][int][fs]
+
it's a sort of universal continuum 
that you may have heard about 
at another place of time 
in another piece of space
'estrel_

crows fly by cawing

after some 
bright sliver light 
like water or glass 
clearly an alien magic
in this earth-tone brown 
and green and blue-skied
place

chaos of letters

was and remains 
i'm going to tell here

she was deaf to him for a time 
and so 
whenever he'd come -
silver keys all a-jangle 
running pell-mell down 
the hallway with those
great, bounding strides
 she'd not hear oy

nor the lullabies
nor the tribe song
nor the blood music
nor 
 the pounding of his heart
 that washed it all away
 in a tide of feral heat

but she could scry a bit
 read the leaves
 letters of chaos 
drawn on crimson ground

  thrall of orchids
  scene letter stone

marry me

like you said you would
now before it's too late

it's uniquely mine
you told me

so here i am
waiting for word
under a hackling moon
(she belongs to all of us)
but we will none of us 
ever see it quite 
exactly the same

i want to live in the sea
against the skyes 
like phosphorescence

tjere

travesting

your deconstructive methodology 
 and 
 your flawed behavioral analysis 
 hold 
 no appeal for me  

I told you from the beginning 
 how it can only be 
 by universal law and 
 maladaptive fiat 

I saw it go right by you 
 you had to hear it pass 
 and now it's all about  
 smack-talk and dirty deals 
 drama high and layin' low 

 who do you think you are? 
 who do you think I am? 
 what're you tryin' t'do t'me? 
 where will it en? 

never say die

she said
 never g5ve up 
 never give in 
 never say die
she said
 some thing 
 gramma's lye 
 soap won'take 

off

take this

off

get me

off

suck it up

carbine isotope

fourteen decay
temporal severance
split down the

like a

whatchutrytodotome

please stop it you're hurting me 
emotionally and physically 
with your bullheadedness and
 procrastination fer fsake

if you are 
or will be 
going to 
some place 
do you think
of some times 
not going there
of course i 
should have known

what was that safety word, again?

i am not a bot

i am not a bot
i am not a bot
i am not a bot
notabot

still making no claims of humanity?

i am not a bot
i am not a bot
i am not a bot
notabot

who many shall make seven okay?

i am not a bot
i am not a bot
i am not a bot
notabot

airless

surviving airless now
 - unable to speak or hear

"shut up" she keeps saying "shut up"
like xu

it cannot matter less 
the tether is broken and 
one of us is drifting 
into a vortex 
from which there is no return

"god damn" she sez, "god damn"
lie xer

there was something i left with you
i hope you remember

i thinkar e

the more it seems you
"don't say it"

it's all the same to you
it's all the same to you
it's all the same to you

it's all the same to you
it's all the same to you
it's all the same to you

i am dying to be you

you're all gone now

you'll never even miss it 

chasing down the road to zion 
vanished in a glitter of arms  
and crying of metals 

your god blessed you, you sed; he 
brought everyone you cared for there? 
or were you just mocking weather control?

most important to me n

now and again i think that maybe
if i had only moved a little more 
quickly everything would have been 
different somewhere 

tryst trust
tipping point
go on or hold

that quivering little thing
in the palm of my hand 
and wait til Doom befalls us

so which sort of trust was it 
you were speaking of?
tryst trust