Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
THIS is the great American
Right here
Doing this
On her ass
BEHOLD the greatness
That is this American
Plugging away the dollars
Sleeping with his eyes open
Contemplating dead options
Again!
HOORAY!
I said HOORAY!
For the nothing and nothing and the nothing
Reading the Onion
Passing time over the clock
Ignoring the ringing
Letting the alarm
Become a rhythm to live life by
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
True Story
On the day of april 15th
An hour after sunrise
A giant tree, the one in the front yard
Starting whispering stories
About a collapse
About splitting in half
No one could hear
But it so happened
I was sleeping
under a lazy sun snooping through window slits
But I heard no tree
I don’t remember dreaming trees
Only the simple tone
of my friend
telling me to go
To go in her car
To drive away
“its ok”
Next to the lot
Where the car was parked
A branch the size of a tree
Hollow and buzzing
Lay on asphalt
Looking innocent, out of context
My three roommates
Questioning me
“where did you go?”
“who said you could take my car?”
I don’t know, I don’t know
The branch teases me
Nonchalantly mixing with gravity
But the branch lay next to the car’s former spot
And not directly
Where the car would be
Teasing meYoung people who wanted you
Fade away
They move for the mountains
Slowly stay where they lay
But their colors become gentler
Don’t take it personally
Everyone who speaks
To you
Means the words they say
Even if you cannot decipher the meaning
They mean them any way
But don’t take them personally
Days are inches on a hem
Growing slowly towards the floor
The light grows quieter
In the late afternoon
As it softly surrounds former half shadows
That once framed your face
But don’t take it personally
It is all obliged to grow dim
The closer
You get
A gaseous mirage of oxygen
followed me
under water
I slipped down
closer to dirty sand
My hands
gripping rubbery vines running towards the sun
allow panicked breathes to escape
My lungs sucked out the air
from between sheets of
glass
I awoke tasting
a transparent film of juice on my lips
trickling to my tongue
There is a thought across from mine
faceless, opaque,
demanding that I follow
to the bottom
where I find
unpredictable doors