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 
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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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